Jörg van Essen

Jörg van Essen
Member of the Bundestag
In office
20 December 1990 – 2013
Personal details
Born (1947-09-29) 29 September 1947
Burscheid
PartyFDP
EducationUniversity of Cologne

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.

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. ^ "Schwule stürmen den Bundestag". Queer (in German). 28 September 2009.
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