Cathy Kietzer, President of the City Council

Cathy Kietzer,
President of the
City Council

Biographical data

• 27 January 1943 born in Hjørring/Denmark, grew up in Ålborg 
• 1961 School leaving certificate 
• 1961-1964 Attendance at Higher Commercial College in Ålborg with a focus on languages 
• 1961-1964 Training to become a foreign language correspondence clerk and financial accountant in a large export company in Aalborg 
• 1967 Move to Kiel (marriage to Klaus Kietzer) 
• Since 1970 Resident in Mettenhof

• 1975 Birth of son Lars, computer engineer 
• Since 1976 Employed in the law firm of her husband Klaus Kietzer, attorney-at-law and notary in Kiel 
• Since 1987 Sworn interpreter and translator in area of the Kiel District Court (currently resting)

Politics

• 1974 Becomes member of the SPD 
• 1985-1998 Chair of the local Mettenhof/Hasseldieksdamm SPD association
  During this time member of the SPD executive committee for the district of Kiel and
  deputy to the SPD Land Committee 
• 1991-1998 Chair of the committee of the Kiel city council SPD 
• 1 April 1998 Member of the City Council 
• 23 April 1998 until 10 April 2003 President of the City Council, deputy member of the
  cultural committee
  Chair of the special committee (city charter/distribution  of tasks/rules of procedure)
  Member of the Board of the Schleswig-Holstein Association of Cities
  Member of municipal liaison committee of the Sparkassen- und
  Giroverband Schleswig-Holstein
  Member of the Executive Committee of the German Association of Cities 
• May 1998 Re-election as member of the Administrative Board of Sparkasse Kiel
  (member since May 1994)
  Deputy member of loan committees 
• January 1999 Member of the board of trustees of Mettenhof youth farm 
• February 1999 Member of the association to promote crime prevention
• 28 June 1999 until 31 March 2003 Head of the Board of the Schleswig-Holstein Association of Cities 
• 21 September 2000 Deputy member of the Executive Committee 
• January until December 2000 Speaker of the Schleswig-Holstein municipal associations
• 2001 until 2003 Member of the municipal discussion group of Deutsche Bank,Hamburg 
• 2001 until 2003 Member of the advisory board of the Provinzial Brandkasse, Kiel 
• 2001 until 2007 Chair of the university council of Kiel University of Applied Sciences
  As of 22 February 2006 member until 31 March 2007
  From 1 April 2007new Act on Institutions of Higher Education 
• November 2001 Election to 2nd deputy Head of the Administrative Board of Sparkasse Kieland as an ordinary member
  of the loan committee, building committee and employee
  committee of Sparkasse Kiel                                            
• Since 2002 Member of the board of trustees for Kiel’s application to hold the Olympic sailing competitions in 2012 
• Since March 2002 Chair of the assembly of the foundation Bürgerstiftung Kiel
• April 2003 until May 2008 Member of the City Council
  Chair of the committee of the Kiel city council SPD 
• 1 June 2008 Member of the City Council 
• 12 June 2008 President of the City Council