Jörg van Essen explained

Jörg van Essen (born 29 September 1947 in Burscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (German: link=no|Freie Demokratische Partei; FDP) in the Bundestag.

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.

Van Essen is openly gay.^[1]

Awards and decorations

• 2007: Bundeswehr Cross of Honour in Gold
• 2013: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

References

1. Web site: Schwule stürmen den Bundestag. Queer. 28 September 2009. de.

External links

• Web site: Herzlich willkommen auf meiner ganz persönlichen Homepage. https://web.archive.org/web/20091010195815/http://www.joerg-van-essen.de/ . 10 October 2009. Jörg van Essen's website. 10 October 2009.
• Web site: Jörg van Essen, FDP. https://web.archive.org/web/20091021033900/http://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/abgeordnete/bio/E/essenjo0.html. 21 October 2009. Deutscher Bundestag. de.