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.
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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.
Awards and decorations
edit- 2007: Bundeswehr Cross of Honour in Gold
- 2013: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
References
edit- ^ "Schwule stürmen den Bundestag". Queer (in German). 28 September 2009.
External links
edit- "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.