Katja Dörner | |
Office: | Mayor of Bonn |
Term Start: | 1 November 2020 |
Predecessor: | Ashok-Alexander Sridharan |
Office1: | Member of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia |
Term Start1: | 27 October 2009 |
Term End1: | 31 October 2020 |
Successor1: | Janosch Dahmen |
Birth Date: | 1976 2, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Siegen, West Germany |
Party: | Greens |
Nationality: | German |
Children: | 1 |
Katja Dörner (born 18 February 1976) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as mayor of Bonn since 2020. From 2009 until 2020, she was a member of the Bundestag.[1]
Dörner studied political science in at the universities of Bonn, York and Edinburgh from 1995 until 2000.
From 2001 until 2003, Dörner worked as a legislative adviser to Sylvia Löhrmann, then the chairwoman of the Green Party's parliamentary group in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. She subsequently advised the parliamentary group on education and vocational training policies from 2003 until 2009.
Dörner first became a member of the German Bundestag in the 2009 elections, representing North Rhine-Westphalia. In parliament, she served on the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth. From 2009 until 2013, she was also a member of the Budget Committee, where she served as rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. In addition to her committee assignments, she was a member of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group.
From 2013 until 2020, Dörner served as vice-chair of the Green Party's parliamentary group, under the leadership of Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Anton Hofreiter.
In the – unsuccessful – negotiations to form a coalition government with the Christian Democrats – both the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – and the Free Democratic Party following the 2017 elections, Dörner was part of her party's delegation.[2]
In August 2019, Dörner announced her intention to become Mayor of Bonn.[3] She was elected in a run-off election on 27 September 2020 with 56.27% of the vote, becoming Bonn's second-ever female mayor.[4]
In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Hendrik Wüst following the 2022 state elections, Dörner was part of her party’s delegation.[5]
Dörner has lived in Bonn since 1995. In Berlin, she shared an apartment with Oliver Krischer.[11]