Dirk-Ulrich Mende

Dirk-Ulrich Mende (born 26 Dec 1957 in Münster) is a German SPD politician and was the Lord Mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of the town of Celle in North Germany.

Mende at the state conference of the Lower Saxon SPD in Celle in the run up to the elections in 2009

Mende studied law in Marburg and Göttingen and passed his state legal exams in 1987. Thereafter he was employed as the president of the regional council in Kassel, at the former Federal Office for the Recognition of Refugees (now the Federal Ministry of Migration (Bundesamt für Migration), at the Hesse State Welfare Agency (Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen) in Kassel, at the Schleswig-Holstein State Insurance Institution (Landesversicherungsanstalt Schleswig-Holstein) and at the Lower Saxon Ministry for Social Welfare, Women, Families and Health (Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Soziales, Frauen, Familie und Gesundheit). From 1999 to 2003 Mende was the leader of the SPD party in the Lower Saxon Landtag. From 2003 to 2008 Mende was the divisional head (Referatsleiter) of the Lower Saxon Ministry for Home Affairs, Sport and Integration. There he worked for five years in the area of administrative modernisation and then in the field of integration. Since 22 February 2009 Mende has been the Lord Mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of the town of Celle in Lower Saxony, having won at the first vote with a clear and "surprising" majority of 50.8%.[1] He has been elected for a term of office lasting to 2017.[2]

Mende lost the 2016 elections against his CDU opponent Jörg Nigge. Therefore, his regular period in office ended in February 2017.

Since 1975 Mende has been a member of the SPD and since 1972 an honorary member of the Worker's Welfare Association (Arbeiterwohlfahrt).

Mende is married with three children.

References
  1. SPD-Kandidat Dirk-Ulrich Mende siegt bei Oberbürgermeisterwahl at www.haz.de. Accessed on 15 Apr 2011.
  2. Der Oberbürgermeister at www.celle.de. Accessed on 15 Apr 2011.
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