Katja Wolf (born 7 March 1976 in

Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits i ...

) is a German politician ( The Left). She was a representative in the

Landtag of Thuringia The Landtag of Thuringia is the parliament of the German federal state of Thuringia. It convenes in Erfurt and currently consists of 90 members from six parties. According to the free state's constitution, the primary functions of the Landtag ...

from 1999 to 2012 and since 1 July 2012 has been the mayor of the city of Eisenach in

Thuringia Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and larg ...

Life

After completing her Abitur in 1994 at the Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Wolf studied

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at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt and graduated with a diploma in 1999. From January to August 1999 she worked as a researcher for the Landtag of Thuringia. In the

1999 Thuringian state election The 1999 Thuringian state election was held on 12 September 1999 to elect the members of the 3rd Landtag of Thuringia. The incumbent government was a grand coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by ...

, she was herself elected to the Landtag and became chair of the Equal Opportunities Committee (''Gleichstellungsausschuss''). She has been a member of the Eisenach city council since 2004. In the

2009 Thuringian state election The 2009 Thuringian state election was held on 30 August 2009 to elect the members of the 5th Landtag of Thuringia. It was held on the same day as the 2009 Saarland state election and the 2009 Saxony state election. The incumbent Christian Democr ...

, Wolf succeeded in winning the direct mandate in the constituency of Wartburgkreis II - Eisenach. For the 2012 Thuringian municipal elections, Wolf stood as a candidate for mayor of the city of Eisenach. On 6 May 2012, she was elected mayor with 51.6% of the vote. On 15 June 2015, a recall petition filed by the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) in city council also attracted considerable attention beyond the region when 16 out of 34 city councillors voted in favour of the motion in secret ballot, although the NPD had only three seats. Wolf has no religious affiliation and is married with two children.

Links

Oberbürgermeisterin Katja Wolf
- Profile from the City of Eisenach (in German)
Official website of Katja Wolf
(German)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolf, Katja Members of the Landtag of Thuringia Mayors of places in Thuringia The Left (Germany) politicians Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany) politicians 1976 births Living people