Bernhard Ensink
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| Born |
September 5, 1956 Hilten, Neuenhaus, Grafschaft Bentheim, Germany |
| Residence | Coevorden |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Occupation | Secretary General of the European Cyclists' Federation Velo-city Series Director |
Dr. Bernhard Wilhelm Ensink (born September 5, 1956) ) is a Dutch theologian, politician and manager. He has been the Secretary General of the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF) since May 2006.
Bernhard Ensink grew up in Laar, Grafschaft Bentheim, Germany, where his German parents ran a farm. After graduating at the Gymnasium Nordhorn, he studied theology in Bethel/Bielefeld, Münster and Kampen. He obtained his master's degree in 1985. The focus of his master thesis was on ‘time' in the works of the German Theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg. Additionally, he took courses for a diploma to teach German language at Dutch schools. From 1992 to 1994 he passed courses for human resource management, business administration and marketing for non-governmental organisations.
Bernhard Ensink currently lives in Coevorden, Drenthe. He is married and has two children.
From 1980 to 1987, Bernhard Ensink taught German language and religions at secondary schools in the Netherlands.
In 1987, he returned to the Theologische Universiteit Kampen to give lectures on the History of Theology and to do research. His PhD-thesis was on the relationship between ‘Ethics and Theology’, analyzing the works of Joseph Butler. He received his doctorate in 1995. His promoter was Prof. Dr. Gerrit Manenschijn.
In 1990, he was elected a member of the city council of Coevorden for the local political party PAC (Progressief Accoord Coevorden) for the first time. After he won the local elections with this party in 1994, he became the deputy mayor (Wethouder) in charge of finances, spatial planning, housing, environment, public relations and communications and small and medium enterprises. He was deputy mayor of Coevorden until 1998, when that city merged with four other municipalities to the new municipality Coevorden.
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