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Brigitte Fronzek née Kunstmann (July 16, 1952,
Pinneberg Pinneberg (; ) is a town in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. It is the capital of the Pinneberg (district), district of Pinneberg and has a population of about 43,500 inhabitants. Pinneberg is located 18 km northw ...
— November 13, 2021) was a German
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and
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of
Elmshorn Elmshorn (; ) is a town in the district of Pinneberg in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. It is 30 km north of Hamburg on the small river Krückau, a tributary of the Elbe, and with about 50,000 inhabitants is the sixth-largest town in the sta ...
from 1996 to 2013.


Life

Brigitte Fronzek studied from 1971 to 1975 in
Kiel Kiel ( ; ) is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein. With a population of around 250,000, it is Germany's largest city on the Baltic Sea. It is located on the Kieler Förde inlet of the Ba ...
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and received her
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in 1979. She then worked as a
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and
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. From 1975 to 1984, she was married to the lawyer Norbert Hempel, with whom she co-authored a commentary on the Schleswig-Holstein Municipal Tax Act. In 1995, she was elected mayor of Elmshorn. She was re-elected in 2001 and 2007, the last time with 83.2%. After 18 years in office, she did not stand for another term. Her successor was elected on September 22, 2013, with 81.9% of the vote Volker Hatje (non-party), who took office on January 1, 2014. Her candidacy for the office of district administrator of the district of Pinneberg failed in the direct district administrator election (run-off) on March 30, 2003, with Wolfgang Grimme (CDU) won with 53.6% of the votes cast against Brigitte Fronzek (46.4%). In 2010, Fronzek applied to be the top candidate in the state election in Schleswig-Holstein 2012. The party's internal election for the nomination for the office of Minister President was organized for the first time by a members' vote, in which four candidates competed: In addition to Fronzek himself, these were Kiel Mayor
Torsten Albig Torsten Albig (born 25 May 1963) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany. From 2012 until 2017 he served as the 13th Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein. Early life and education Albig grew up in Ostholstein and ...
, state parliament member and former state interior minister
Ralf Stegner Ralf Stegner (born 2 October 1959) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag for the constituency of Pinneberg since the 2021 German fe ...
and Mathias Stein, chairman of the staff council at the
Kiel Canal The Kiel Canal (, until 1948 called in German the ) is a fresh water canal that links the North Sea () to the Baltic Sea (). It runs through the Germany, German states of Germany, state of Schleswig-Holstein, from Brunsbüttel to the Holtenau di ...
administration in Kiel. Fronzek came third in the primary election with 9.1% of the valid votes cast, behind Albig (57.2%) and Stegner (32.2%). Together with the CDU Member of Parliament
Ole Schröder Ole Schröder (born 27 August 1971) is a German politician and member of the CDU. From 2009 until 2018, he served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of the Interior. Career Early career Between 2001 and 2009, Schrà ...
, she has campaigned intensively for bureaucracy reduction in Schleswig-Holstein since 2004. She was married and left behind two children.


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SPD-Geschichtswerkstatt Brigitte Fronzek
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fronzek, Brigitte 1952 births 2021 deaths People from Pinneberg Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians