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Iris Stalzer | |
|---|---|
| Mayor-elect of Herdecke | |
| Assuming office 1 November 2025 | |
| Succeeding | Katja Strauss-Köster |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1968 (age 56–57) |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party of Germany (since 2014) |
| Other political affiliations | Alliance 90/The Greens (until 2014) |
Ute Iris Stalzer (born 1968 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She is the designated mayor of Herdecke in the south-eastern Ruhr region.
Stalzer grew up in Herdecke as the daughter of a steelworker. She studied law and works as a specialist lawyer for labor law in Herdecke. [1]
Until 2020,Stalzer was a member of the Herdecke city council,for Alliance 90/The Greens until she left the party at the end of 2014. [2] [3]
She later joined the SPD. In the 2025 local elections,Stalzer was elected mayor of Herdecke. She prevailed in the runoff election on 28 September 2025,with 52.2% (first round:42.5%) of the vote against Fabian Haas (CDU;first round:39.2%). The planned inauguration date is 1 November 2025. [4]
Stalzer is married and has two adopted children,a girl from Mali born 2007/8 and a boy from Haiti born 2009/10. [5] [6] [7] On 7 October 2025,Stalzer was stabbed thirteen times and critically injured. [8] [9] Her adopted son was initially arrested, [10] however Stalzer later identified her daughter as the attacker. [7] Stalzer was tortured for hours and also suffered skull fractures. [11] One day before the attack Stalzer contacted the police twice, [12] because she felt threatened by her adopted daughter. [13]
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