Jens Beutel is a German

Germany

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 politician

Politician

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 and a member of the Social Democratic Party

Social Democratic Party of Germany

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 and has served as lord mayor of Mainz

Mainz

Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

 since 1997.

Professional biography

Beutel studied law at the University of Mainz from 1968-1976 and then served as a judge in Frankenthal

Frankenthal

Frankenthal is a town in southwestern Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.- History :Frankenthal was first mentioned in 772. In 1119 an Augustinian monastery was built here, the ruins of which — known, after the founder, as the Erkenbertruine — still stand today in the town...

, Koblenz

Koblenz

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 and Mainz. He became a member of the city parliament in 1989, and became chairman of the SPD group in 1995.

Personal

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

Viswanathan Anand

V. Anand or Anand Viswanathan, usually referred as Viswanathan Anand, is an Indian chess Grandmaster, the current World Chess Champion, and currently second highest rated player in the world....

.

See also

• List of Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians
• List of mayors of Mainz