Wally Feiden
Walburga "Wally" Feiden (born November 4, 1940 in Bockau , Neumarkt district ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2004 to 2014 she was mayor of the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Bad Honnef .
Life
She graduated from high school in 1961 at the Liebfrauenschule Vechta . She completed her studies in German and English in 1967 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with Benno von Wiese with the 1st state examination. She worked as a journalist for the Catholic weekly newspaper published in Bonn by the German Bishops' Conference (1967), the Frankfurter Publik (1968 to 1970), the Federal Press Office and the German Red Cross and later for Deutsche Welle (1971 to 1976), the Catholic magazine Funk-Korrespondenz (1977) and between 1979 and 1994 for the Deutsche Verkehrswacht , the Deutsche Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt and the Frankfurter Rundschau .
Wally Feiden is married, has a son and a daughter, and lives in the Aegidienberg district .
Political career
In 1978 she joined the SPD. Politically, she appeared from 1979, first as a committee member of the Bad Honnef city council and as a board member of the local SPD association, responsible for press work. From 1984 to 2004 she was city councilor, later also chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in Bad Honnef, and from 1994 first deputy mayor of the then mayor Franz Josef Kayser ( CDU ). For the mayoral election in 1999 she ran against Hans-Peter Brassel (CDU), but lost significantly. In the mayoral election as part of the local elections in 2004 , she ran again against the incumbent Hans-Peter Brassel ( CDU ). In the first ballot she lost with 33.3 to 42 percent of the vote (turnout 59.6 percent). In the runoff election that took place two weeks later, Wally Feiden was able to prevail with a turnout of 50.3 percent with 52.9 to 47.1 percent of the vote. The mayoral election in 2008, in which a runoff election was not planned, she won with 37.0 percent and a turnout of 53.2 percent. The mayoral election was brought forward by a year because Wally Feiden had reached the age limit for mayor before the 2009 local elections .
Awards
- 2014: Dr. Johann Christian Eberle Medal , awarded by Michael Breuer for more than 20 years on the board of directors and other Sparkasse committees
- 2014: Honorary citizenship and ring of honor of the city of Bad Honnef
- 2020: Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany, awarded by District Administrator Sebastian Schuster
Web links
- Homepage on wally-feiden.de
- Detailed curriculum vitae in the weekly newspaper Die Bad Honnefer in three parts from November 8, 12 and 19, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wally Feiden: "Saying goodbye has already begun" . Interview in General-Anzeiger on January 16, 2010
- ↑ Mayoral election 2004 on September 26, 2004 ( PDF ; 47 kB)
- ^ Runoff election mayor on October 10, 2004 (PDF; 9 kB)
- ↑ Mayoral election on October 19, 2008 ( Memento from September 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Justification of the date of the mayoral election 2008 on the website of the city of Bad Honnef (no longer online).
- ↑ Dr. Johann Christian Eberle Medal: Wally Feiden is awarded . Article in the General-Anzeiger from June 10, 2014
- ↑ Ring of honor for Wally Feiden from "her" council . Article on HONNEF heute.de from July 4, 2014
- ^ Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon to Wally Feiden from Bad Honnef . Article from February 17, 2020 on the website of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feiden, Wally |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Feiden, Walburga (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Mayor of Bad Honnef |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4th 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bockau , Neumarkt district |