Ullrich Sierau
| Ullrich Sierau | |
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Ullrich Sierau, May 2012
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| Lord Mayor of Dortmund | |
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Assumed office 9 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Gerhard Langemayer |
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6 March 1956 Halle an der Saale, East Germany |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Occupation | Politician |
Ullrich Sierau (born 6 March 1956, Halle an der Saale, East Germany) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany and, since 15 June 2014, for the third time, has been the lord mayor of Dortmund. After retaining this position already from 21 October 2009 to 18 January 2010, he was re-elected in an election on May 9, 2010 repeat election of the mayor elections in 2009 for mayor of Dortmund. His term would last until 2016. In the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2014, Sierau approached again, reaching a vote share of 43.7%. When carried out in the June 15, 2014 runoff he, then reached 51.6% of the vote, his counter candidate Annette Littmann from the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, who received 32.0% in the first ballot, subjected to 48.4%.
Sierau is the son of Otto and Anneliese Sierau, and was one of three children. At the end of 1958, the Sierau family fled from the GDR to Wolfsburg, where, in 1974, he completed his secondary education. Sierau began, in Dortmund, studied spatial planning and closed it after several study trips to Africa, Asia and South America in 1982 as a "Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.) in Spatial Planning".
According to various scientific and local political activities, he moved on to the Ministry of Urban Development, Housing and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1986. He was promoted to Ministerial in 1993 and in October 1993, at the request of the SPD parliamentary group on leave to participate in the "Government Programme 1994". From 1994 to 1999, he was director of the Institute for Regional and Urban Development Research of North Rhine-Westphalia (ILS) in Dortmund. From 1 May 1999 to 31 March 2005, he was part of Environment and Planning Department of the City of Dortmund. On 15 February 2007 he was appointed City Manager of the City of Dortmund.
Within the SPD Dortmund developed in 2008 a discussion of possible candidates for the post of Mayor in the forthcoming local elections. In an intra-party members survey, Sierau sat with 64% through to the second candidate Jörg Stüdemann and was officially elected on the SPD subdistrict Party with 97.4% of the vote for the SPD mayor candidate.
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