Katja Dörner

Katja Dörner (born 18 February 1976) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as mayor of Bonn since 2020. From 2009 until 2020, she was a member of the Bundestag.[1]

Katja Dörner
Katja Dörner in 2014
Mayor of Bonn
Assumed office
1 November 2020
Preceded byAshok-Alexander Sridharan
Member of the Bundestag
In office
2009 – 2020
Personal details
Born (1976-02-18) 18 February 1976
Siegen, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyGreens
Children1

Education and early career

Dörner studied political science in at the universities of Bonn, York and Edinburgh from 1995 until 2000.

From 2001 until 2003, Dörner worked as legislative adviser to Sylvia Löhrmann, then the chairwoman of the Green Party's parliamentary group in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. She subsequently advised the parliamentary group on education and vocational training policies from 2003 until 2009.

Political career

Dörner first became a member of the German Bundestag in the 2009 elections, representing Bonn. In parliament, she served on the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. From 2009 until 2013, she was also a member of the Budget Committee, where she served as rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. In addition to her committee assignments, she was a member of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group.

From 2013 until 2020, Dörner served as vice-chair of the Green Party's parliamentary group from 2013, under the leadership of Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Anton Hofreiter.

In the – unsuccessful – negotiations to form a coalition government with the Christian Democrats – both the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – and the Free Democratic Party following the 2017 elections, Dörner was part of her party's delegation.[2]

In August 2019, Dörner announced her intention to become Mayor of Bonn.[3] She was elected in a run-off election on 27 September 2020 with 56.27% of the vote, becoming Bonn's second-ever female mayor.[4]

Other activities

Personal life

Dörner has lived in Bonn since 1995.

References
  1. "Deutscher Bundestag - Katja Dörner". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Archived from the original on 2019-09-04. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
  2. Barbara Gillmann and Silke Kersting (September 27, 2017), Sondierungsgespräche der Grünen: Jamaika braucht Trittins Segen Archived 2019-09-24 at the Wayback Machine Handelsblatt.
  3. "Grünen-Politikerin - Katja Dörner will OB in Bonn werden" (in German). 2019-08-26. Archived from the original on 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2019-09-04.
  4. http://wahlen.bonn.de/wahlen/KW2020/05314000/html5/Buergermeisterstichwahl_NRW_55_Gemeinde_Stadt_Bonn.html
  5. Members Institut Solidarische Moderne (ISM).
  6. Advisory Board Archived 2019-04-22 at the Wayback Machine German Foundation for World Population (DSW).
  7. Governance Archived 2019-09-24 at the Wayback Machine Plan International Deutschland.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.