Katja Dörner

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Katja Dörner
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Katja Dörner in 2014
Mayor of Bonn
Assumed office
1 November 2020
Preceded byAshok-Alexander Sridharan
Member of the Bundestag
for North Rhine-Westphalia
In office
27 October 2009 – 31 October 2020
Succeeded byJanosch Dahmen
ConstituencyAlliance '90/The Greens List
Personal details
Born (1976-02-18) 18 February 1976 (age 45)
Siegen, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyGreens
Children1

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]

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 a 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 North Rhine-Westphalia. 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, 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[]

  • Institut Solidarische Moderne (ISM), Member (since 2010)[5]
  • German Foundation for World Population (DSW), Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board[6]
  • Plan International Deutschland, Member of the Board of Trustees[7]
  • Amnesty International, Member

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.


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