Bodo Klimpel

Bodo Klimpel (born 12 November 1963) is a German politician (CDU). He was the mayor of the North Rhine-Westphalian town Haltern am See and is now the Landrat (district chief) of the District Recklinghausen.

Life

Klimpel was born in Rourkela, in the Indian state of Odisha, where his father was working on the construction of a German steelworks.

Klimpel married in 1994 and has a son and a daughter.

Germanwings Flight 9525 Reacting to Germanwings Flight 9525 plane crash as mayor of Haltern am See, he said "This is the darkest day in the history of our city," and "A feeling of shock can be felt everywhere. It is about the worst thing imaginable." 16 school children and two teachers from Haltern were on board an ill-fated Germanwings airplane.