Jörg van Essen
Jörg van Essen | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| In office 20 December 1990 – 2013 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 September 1947 Burscheid |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | FDP |
| Education | University of Cologne |
Jörg van Essen (born 29 September 1947 in Burscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (German: Freie Demokratische Partei; FDP) in the Bundestag.
Van Essen was born in Burscheid and attended a gymnasium in Siegen. He studied law at the University of Cologne from 1968 to 1973. After he finished university he became a prosecutor in Münster, Hagen and Dortmund from 1976 to 1985. Since 1980, van Essen has been a member of the Free Democratic Party and from 1990 to 2013 he was a member of the Bundestag.
Van Essen is openly gay.