Pia Beckmann (born May 14, 1963 in

Gerolzhofen Gerolzhofen () is a town in the district of Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany. The town is the former center of the district of Gerolzhofen and has about 7,000 inhabitants. The mayor of Gerolzhofen is Thorsten Wozniak (CSU). GerolzhofenStadtpfarrkirc ...

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) is a doctor of philology, was a German

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, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria and an entrepreneur. In 2002 she was elected as mayor (Oberbürgermeisterin) of

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as the first woman in Würzburg's history. In 2008 the CSU again sent her as its candidate for mayorship, with a majority of 93%. She was one of five candidates and won the first ballot with 41,3 %, which was more than 16% better than the next candidate of the

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, SPD. In the second ballot, which was to be held between the two with the most votes, she only could cast 47,5 % of the votes and by this lost the run-off. In 2008 Beckmann founded her own consulting firm. In 2010 she became shareholder and managing partner of the company clean energy GmbH. Beside that, she was a lecturer at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. The University of Würzburg is one of ...

, Faculty of Business Administration and Business Informatics, from 2008 to 2012.See course catalogue of the University of Würzburg, from winter semester 2008 to summer semester 2012 She is married with Klaus Hiltrop and has four children.

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1963 births Living people People from Gerolzhofen Christian Social Union in Bavaria politicians Mayors of places in Bavaria University of Würzburg German philologists {{Germany-mayor-stub

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