Sonja Juergens

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Sonja Jürgens (born March 3, 1978 in Gronau ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2013 to 2018 she was mayor of the Münsterland city ​​of Gronau.

Career

Sonja Jürgens comes from a civil servant family. She attended a Protestant elementary school in Gronau, then the city high school up to eighth grade and then the secondary school until 1994. At a technical school in Ahaus she obtained in 1997 the college entrance . Until 2001 she studied social work at the Evangelical University of Applied Sciences Rhineland-Westphalia-Lippe in Bochum . She was involved as the home spokesperson for her student residence at Markstrasse 137 and on the board of the home speakers conference in Bochum. She completed her studies with a degree in social worker (FH).

At the Diakonie des Kirchenkreis Steinfurt-Coesfeld-Borken , the welfare association of the Evangelical Church , she worked in the field of outpatient housing and outpatient educational assistance. She headed the district center GroW - Mein Gronauer Westen .

Before joining the SPD in 2004, she was already active in the youth welfare committee of the city of Gronau. Since 2009 she has been a member of the Gronau city council. Since 2011 she has been deputy chairwoman of the local association of the SPD Gronau and Epe and deputy chairwoman of the SPD sub-district of Borken. Since January 2012 she has been chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the city council, and in the same year she became a delegate at the SPD party convention. In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2012 , she was in 27th place on the SPD state list. However, the CDU candidate Bernhard Tenhumberg won a direct mandate in her state electoral district Borken II . On September 28, 2014, Sonja Jürgens was elected to the state executive committee of the SPD NRW with 82 percent of the vote in Cologne .

Mayor's office

In the mayoral election in Gronau on March 3, 2013, Sonja Juergens won the election as SPD candidate with 47.2 percent of the valid votes, in the runoff election on March 17, 2013 she was the successor to the out with 63.3 percent of the valid votes Karl-Heinz Holtwisch (CDU), who is retiring for health reasons, is the new mayor.

In the elections for the next term of office, she was subject to the CDU challenger Rainer Doetkotte , who was able to unite 60.9 percent of the valid votes (Jürgens: 39.1 percent) in the runoff election held on March 24, 2019.

engagement

She is a founding member of the Gronauer Tafel.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State list of the SPD for the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2012 ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nrwspd.de
  2. ↑ Sonja Jürgens elected to the state executive committee of the SPD . Article in the Westfälische Nachrichten of March 18, 2013
  3. ↑ Gronau residents get mayor . Article in the Westfälische Nachrichten of March 18, 2013
  4. ↑ CDU man Doetkotte decides the runoff election against Sonja Jürgens for himself. March 24, 2019, accessed March 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Juergens, Sonja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Mayor of Gronau (Westphalia)
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Gronau (Westphalia)