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Jörg van Essen

Jörg van Essen

German politician

Jörg van Essen (born 29 September 1947 in Burscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (German: Freie Demokratische Partei; FDP) in the Bundestag.

Jörg van Essen (FDP) in Hamm, 8 March 2009

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 to 2013 he was a member of the Bundestag.

Van Essen is openly gay.[1]

Awards and decorations

References

  1. [1]
    "Schwule stürmen den Bundestag". Queer (in German). 28 September 2009.
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