Frauke Burgdorff

Curriculum vitae

Frauke Burgdorff is a graduate engineer in spatial planning. She studied in Kaiserslautern and Dortmund. Following her studies, she worked as an urban planner in Antwerp, a futurologist in Gelsenkirchen and for the concept development of the Euregionale in Aachen. At the request of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, she set up the NRW Urban Building Culture Initiative and managed the European House of Urban Culture. From 2006, she established and managed the Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume gAG in Bonn as a board member. During this time, she also served as Managing Director of Urbane Nachbarschaft Samtweberei gGmbH. In 2016, she established BURGDORFF STADT - Agency for Cooperative Urban Development. She and her team have worked for municipalities and housing companies throughout Germany.

Frauke Burgdorff was born in Hildesheim in 1970. On June 19, 2019, she was elected by the Aachen City Council as the new Alderwoman for Planning, Construction and Mobility.


Committees and memberships

  • Deputy Chairwoman of the Building and Transport Committee of the NRW Association of Cities and Towns
  • Member of the Building and Transport Committee of the Association of German Cities
  • Member of the Supervisory Board APAG - Aachener Parkhaus GmbH
  • Member of the Supervisory Board of AVV GmbH - Aachener Verkehrsverbund GmbH
  • Member of the Supervisory Board of Campus GmbH
  • Member of the Supervisory Board SEGA - Städtische Entwicklungsgesellschaft Aachen GmbH & Co. KG
  • German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning, Vice President
  • Board of Trustees of the vhw - Bundesverband für Wohnen und Stadtentwicklng e.V.
  • Association of German Architects (associate member and member of AK Stadt)
  • National Urban Development Policy (Member of the Board of Trustees)
  • Netzwerk Immovielien e.V. (member and member of the advisory board)
  • Ko-Operativ eG NRW (member and Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board until the end of 2019)
  • Wohnbund e.V.

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