Katja Dörner | |
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 Dörner in 2014 | |
| Mayor of Bonn | |
| Assumed office 1 November 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Ashok-Alexander Sridharan |
| Member of theBundestag forNorth Rhine-Westphalia | |
| In office 27 October 2009 – 31 October 2020 | |
| Succeeded by | Janosch Dahmen |
| Constituency | Alliance '90/The Greens List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1976-02-18)18 February 1976 (age 49) |
| Political party | Greens |
| Children | 1 |
Katja Dörner (born 18 February 1976) is a German politician of theAlliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as mayor ofBonn since 2020. From 2009 until 2020, she was a member of theBundestag.[1]
Dörner studiedpolitical science in at the universities ofBonn,York andEdinburgh from 1995 until 2000.
From 2001 until 2003, Dörner worked as a legislative adviser toSylvia Löhrmann, then the chairwoman of the Green Party's parliamentary group in theLandtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. She subsequently advised the parliamentary group on education and vocational training policies from 2003 until 2009.
Dörner first became a member of the GermanBundestag in the2009 elections, representingNorth 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 asrapporteur on the annual budget of theFederal 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 ofKatrin Göring-Eckardt andAnton Hofreiter.
In the – unsuccessful – negotiations to form acoalition government with the Christian Democrats – both theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) and theChristian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – and theFree Democratic Party following the2017 elections, Dörner was part of her party's delegation.[2]
In August 2019, Dörner announced her intention to becomeMayor 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]
In the negotiations to form acoalition government under the leadership ofMinister-President of North Rhine-WestphaliaHendrik Wüst following the2022 state elections, Dörner was part of her party’s delegation.[5]
Dörner has lived inBonn since 1995. In Berlin, she shared an apartment withOliver Krischer.[11]
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