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Brigitta von Bülow (Green Party) lives in Cologne-Ehrenfeld. She previously worked as a secondary school teacher in Cologne-Mülheim and is the mother of three children and grandmother of four.

After six years as parliamentary group leader in the Ehrenfeld district council, she joined the city council faction in 2005, where she has been a member ever since. In 2025, she was re-elected via a direct mandate from Cologne-Neuehrenfeld.

Within the faction, she has held various roles, including member of the executive board, deputy chair, and chair. In 2020, she was elected Mayor and honorary deputy to the Lord Mayor Henriette Reker. On 6 November 2025, she was re-elected as Mayor and honorary deputy to the Lord Mayor Torsten Burmester.

Following many years of engagement in intercultural and interreligious dialogue, issues of justice, healthy living conditions, global solidarity, and 15 years working with a hotline for raped women, Brigitta von Bülow has served as spokesperson for cultural policy since 2009, after previously holding the role of spokesperson for women’s policy. In the current legislative period, her work focuses particularly on cultural and economic policy.

Brigitta von Bülow is a co-founder and one of the spokespersons of “Köln stellt sich quer.”

For the Greens, she is spokesperson of the State Working Group on Culture and a delegate to the Federal Working Group on Culture. She is also an enthusiastic amateur musician and photographer.