About Jörg van Essen
Born 1947. Jörg van Essen is a German politician and member of parliament.
Jörg van Essen (born 29 September 1947 in Burscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (; 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.
Awards and decorations 2007: Bundeswehr Cross of Honour in Gold 2013: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Jörg van Essen was born on 29 September 1947 in Burscheid.
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