{"id":29205,"date":"2026-02-06T15:53:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/retirement-after-43-years-in-the-city-administration\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:35:00","slug":"retirement-after-43-years-in-the-city-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/retirement-after-43-years-in-the-city-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement after 43 years in the city administration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Heike Pessel has had a moving last day at work. The city council employee has now retired &#8211; after a proud 43 years at Wolmirstedt town hall. &#8220;I spent so many years here serving the citizens,&#8221; says Heike Pessel, who worked in urban renewal.  <\/p>\n\n<p>In the days leading up to her retirement, she trained her successor, Katja Mengewein. On her last official working day, Heike Pessel said goodbye not only to her colleagues, but also to some of her companions. Mayor Mike Steffens thanked Heike Pessel once again for her work on behalf of the city. In her retirement, she not only wanted to use the time for her family, but also to continue to be involved &#8211; whether on a voluntary basis or otherwise was something she still wanted to consider.   <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mike-Steffen-und-Heike-Pessel-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Steffen and Heike Pessel\" class=\"wp-image-29202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mike-Steffen-und-Heike-Pessel-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mike-Steffen-und-Heike-Pessel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mike-Steffen-und-Heike-Pessel-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mike-Steffen-und-Heike-Pessel-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mike-Steffen-und-Heike-Pessel-930x620.jpg 930w, https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mike-Steffen-und-Heike-Pessel.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>The town of Wolmirstedt would like to thank Ms. Pessel for her work and wishes her all the best for her retirement!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>Photo: City of Wolmirstedt<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heike Pessel, an employee of the town council, has retired &#8211; after a proud 43 years at Wolmirstedt town hall.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29216,"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29205\/revisions\/29216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}