Elke Christina Roeder

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Elke Christina Roeder

Elke Christina Roeder (born November 27, 1966, in Simmern/Hunsrück) is a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 2018 to 2024 she was Lord Mayor of the city of Norderstedt, which borders Hamburg.

Life[edit]

Roeder was born on November 27, 1966, in Simmern/Hunsrück and grew up in Wentorf bei Hamburg. She is a trained jurist and qualified bank clerk. She completed her law studies at the Leibniz University Hannover.[citation needed]

She was mayor of Bad Pyrmont from 2006 to 2014. On October 18, 2011, she joined the SPD.[1] The SPD had already supported her mayoral candidacy in 2006. In addition, she was chairman of the supervisory board of Stadtwerke Bad Pyrmont.[2] After the mayoral election on 25 May 2014, she was succeeded by Klaus Blome (independent) as mayor on 1 November 2014.

Roeder is also a member of the main committee of the Deutscher Städtetag.

On 19 November 2014, Elke Christina Roeder was nominated by the SPD Neumünster as a candidate for mayoral election on 10 May 2015.[3] She lost the election significantly with 34.5% against the non-partisan incumbent Olaf Tauras (59.8%). There was no runoff.[4] She worked in the planning and environmental committee of the city and belonged to the SPD Kreisverband Neumünster as a member of the local association West.[5][6]

For the election to the German Bundestag 2017, she ran on place 11 of the SPD Schleswig-Holstein state party list, but did not enter the Bundestag.[7]

The SPD selected Roeder as their candidate for the mayoral election in Norderstedt. She succeeded Hans-Joachim Grote, who is now Minister of the Interior of Schleswig-Holstein.[8] On the first ballot on 5 November 2017, Elke Christina Roeder received 24.17% of the vote.[9] In the election on 26 November 2017, she was elected mayor with 55.33% of the vote.

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  1. ^ "Bürgermeisterin Elke Christina Roeder beendet Parteilosigkeit". Website des SPD-Ortsvereines Bad Pyrmont. 2011-11-25. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
  2. ^ Stadtwerke Bad Pyrmont, Unternehmensreport 2010 (PDF-Datei; 5,08 MB)
  3. ^ "SPD nominiert Kandidatin für die OB-Wahl". Website der SPD Neumünster. 2014-11-23. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
  4. ^ "Wahlergebnis OBM-Wahl 2015". Website der Stadt Neumünster. 2015-05-10. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
  5. ^ Pyrmonter Nachrichten vom 7.
  6. ^ "Kreisvorstand der SPD Neumünster". Website der SPD Neumünster. Archived from the original on 2017-02-07. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
  7. ^ Pyrmonter Nachrichten vom 7.
  8. ^ Die SPD schickt Elke Christina Roeder ins Rennen.
  9. ^ "Wahlergebnisse". Retrieved 2017-11-06.