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Eva-Maria Kröger was born on June 16th, 1982. She grew up in Dierkow, where she at­tended a high school un­til 1999. In 2001, she grad­u­ated from the for­mer “Goethe-Gym­na­sium”, which is now known as the “In­nerstädtis­che Gym­na­sium”.

Al­ready dur­ing the school time her daugh­ter Luca Vic­to­ria was born. Luca Vic­to­ria is now a trained kinder­garten teacher.

Af­ter grad­u­at­ing from high school, Eva-Maria Kröger started study­ing po­lit­i­cal sci­ence and pub­lic law at the Uni­ver­sity of Ro­s­tock. Af­ter com­plet­ing her bach­e­lor’s de­gree, Mrs. Kröger moved with her daugh­ter in 2004 to Tübin­gen and con­tin­ued her mas­ter’s de­gree.

Since the end of 2006, she lived and worked in Mannheim un­til she moved back to Ro­s­tock two years later. Back in Ro­s­tock, Mrs. Kröger be­gan her po­lit­i­cal in­volve­ment in the“DIE LINKE” party.

In the spring of 2009, she was elected to Ro­s­tock City Coun­cil, where she was the chair of her coun­cil group for 13 years. Mean­while, as a part of her vol­un­tary com­mit­ment, Mrs. Kröger was for sev­eral years also the chair­per­son of the Volk­sthe­ater Ro­s­tock su­per­vi­sory board.

In 2012, Mrs. Kröger mar­ried Kay Spieß, then state di­rec­tor of the “DIE LINKE” party in Meck­len­burg-West­ern Pomera­nia. In 2018, her hus­band passed away af­ter a long ill­ness. To­day, Mrs. Kröger lives in a part­ner­ship.

In 2016, Mrs. Kröger ran for the state par­lia­ment of Meck­len­burg- West­ern Pomera­nia and was elected via the list of the “DIE LINKE” party. Un­til her elec­tion as mayor, she was there in­volved in the ar­eas of hous­ing, con­struc­tion, dig­i­tal­iza­tion, art, cul­ture, pe­ti­tions and fu­neral law.

Mrs. Kröger is cur­rently still a cashier in the Christo­pher Street Day as­so­ci­a­tion in Ro­s­tock, a task she en­joyed very much and will soon hand over.

Mayor 
Eva-Maria Kröger,