Jörg van Essen
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Jörg van Essen (FDP) in Hamm, 8 March 2009
Jörg van Essen (born 29 September 1947 in Burscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party in the Bundestag.
Van Essen was born in Burscheid and attended a gymnasium in Siegen. He studied law at the University of Cologne from 1968 to 1973. After he finished university he became a prosecutor in Münster, Hagen and Dortmund from 1976 to 1985. Since 1980 van Essen has been a member of the Free Democratic Party and from 1990-2013 van Essen was a member of the Bundestag.
Van Essen is openly gay.[1]
Awards and decorations[]
- 2007: Bundeswehr Cross of Honour in Gold
- 2013: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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