Sabine Zech

Sabine Zech (born September 17, 1940 in Berlin ) was Lord Mayor of Hamm for two terms from 1984 to 1994 and a member of the council from 1969 to 1994.

Life

Between 1959 and 1964 she studied in Berlin and Tübingen. She then took up a traineeship at the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1965-69 and had worked in the state's financial administration since 1970. From 1975 to 2005 she taught as a professor at the North Rhine-Westphalia University of Finance in Nordkirchen. In 1968 Sabine Zech joined the SPD in Hamm and received a council mandate the following year, which she held until 1994. From 1987 to 1994 she was state chairwoman of the social democratic community for local politics and has been on the state board of the ASJ North Rhine-Westphalia since 1995 , since 2002 as deputy state chairwoman. Sabine Zech is married to the lawyer and notary Harald Zech in Hamm and has two children.

Theft of a company car and chain of office

On June 10, 1991 Sabine Zech traveled to Poland as Lord Mayor with a driver and company car as well as the chain of office in her luggage to seal the town twinning between Hamm and Kalisz . On the morning of the return trip, June 12, 1991, the vehicle with the luggage and the chain of office were stolen in front of the hotel. Just three weeks later, the vehicle was seized near Warsaw, severely damaged. The chain of office from 1952 has disappeared to this day and was only replaced by a copy in 1999.

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• Photo by Sabine Zech

predecessor	Office	successor
Werner Figgen	Mayor of Hamm 1984 - 1994	Jürgen Wieland