Burkhard Jung

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Juliane Kirchner
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(m. 1980;div. 2014)​
Ayleena Wagner
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(m. 2016)​
Burkhard Jung
Lord Mayor Burkhard Jung at 20th August 2015.JPG
Burkhard Jung in August 2015
Lord Mayor of Leipzig, Saxony
Children5, including Alissa Jung
Alma mater Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (Staatsexamen)
OccupationPolitician

Burkhard Jung (born 7 March 1958 in Siegen) is a German politician [1] of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been the 21st lord mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of Leipzig (Saxony) since March 29, 2006. In addition, he has been president of the Association of German Cities since 2019; he is the first representative of an East German city in that office. [2]

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From 1980 until their 2014 divorce, Jung was married to Juliane Kirchner. They have four children, including actress Alissa Jung. [16]

He married Ayleena Wagner in 2016, and their daughter was born in 2018. [17]

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  2. ↑ Björn Meine (June 6, 2019). "Deutscher Städtetag: OBM Jung startet in den neuen Job". Leipziger Volkszeitung .
  3. ↑ Mayor of Leipzig – 2015 Declaration of Interests City of Leipzig.
  4. ↑ Mayor of Leipzig – 2015 Declaration of Interests City of Leipzig.
  5. ↑ Mayor of Leipzig – 2015 Declaration of Interests City of Leipzig.
  6. ↑ Supervisory Board Archived 2018-04-09 at the Wayback Machine Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG.
  7. ↑ Mayor of Leipzig – 2015 Declaration of Interests City of Leipzig.
  8. ↑ Mayor of Leipzig – 2015 Declaration of Interests City of Leipzig.
  9. ↑ Mayor of Leipzig – 2015 Declaration of Interests City of Leipzig.
  10. ↑ Board of Trustees Stiftung Forum Recht.
  11. ↑ Bernd Westphal und Anke Rehlinger koordinieren neu konstituierten Politischen Beirat des SPD-Wirtschaftsforums Archived 2022-04-20 at the Wayback Machine Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, press release of July 1, 2020.
  12. ↑ Mayor of Leipzig – 2015 Declaration of Interests City of Leipzig.
  13. ↑ Mayor of Leipzig – 2015 Declaration of Interests City of Leipzig.
  14. ↑ Mayor of Leipzig – 2015 Declaration of Interests City of Leipzig.
  15. ↑ Mayor of Leipzig – 2015 Declaration of Interests City of Leipzig.
  16. ↑ "Juliane Kirchner-Jung spricht über das Scheitern ihrer Ehe". bild.de (in German). 2014-06-21. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
  17. ↑ "Leipzigs OBM Burkhard Jung: Das Baby ist da". LVZ – Leipziger Volkszeitung (in German). 26 December 2018. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
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