Jens Beutel

Jens Beutel

Jens Beutel (born July 12, 1946 in Lünen) is a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party and has served as lord mayor of Mainz since 1997.[1][2]

Professional biography

Beutel studied law at the University of Mainz from 1968-1976 and then served as a judge in Frankenthal, Koblenz and Mainz.[2] He became a member of the city parliament in 1989, and became chairman of the SPD group in 1995.[2]

Personal

Jens Beutel and Viswanathan Anand, Chess Classic Mainz 2002.[3]

Beutel started playing chess at age 13[4] and has managed to attract the Chess Classic tournament to Mainz.[5] In 2002, he lost a computer-assisted handicap match against chess champion Viswanathan Anand.[6]

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jens Beutel.

References



This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, April 24, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.