Dr. Jürgen Linden has been Mayor of the City of Aachen since 1989. He studied law and earned his doctorate in the subject in 1975. He has been a member of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) since 1970 and a member of the Aachen City Council since 1977. His particular areas of political interest are economics, employment policy and European matters. Jürgen Linden is a member of the Steering Committee of the German Association of Cities, the North Rhine-Westphalian Association of Cities, and the board of management of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, and holds various positions in the Rhineland Savings Banks and Giro Association RSGV, the mortgage bank LBS and the insurer Provinzial Rheinland; he is also on the supervisory board of Alemannia Aachen GmbH and the advisory council of the horseracing association Aachen-Laurensberger Rennverein.
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