Jörg van Essen

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

2007: Bundeswehr Cross of Honour in Gold
2013: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

References

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

External links

"Herzlich willkommen auf meiner ganz persönlichen Homepage". Jörg van Essen's website. 10 October 2009. Archived from the original on 10 October 2009.
"Jörg van Essen, FDP" (in German). Deutscher Bundestag. Archived from the original on 21 October 2009.

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

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