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Sylvia Jörrißen (born 29 November 1967 in Oberhausen) is a German politician and a member of the Christian Democratic Union, CDU. In the parliamentary election in 2013 she was elected as a member of the German Bundestag. She is protestant, married and a mother of three.

Between 1974 and 1978 she went to primary school in Meerbusch, Herford and Hamm, later on between 1978 and 1987 she went to a high school in Hamm, where she got her Abitur (school examination at the end of the 13th year). In 1987 she began a two-year school at the Deutsche Bank in Hamm where she got her diploma as a banking specialist. From 1989 to 1993 she worked in the Sponsors´ Association of Deutsche Bank in Osnabrück and Hamm, 1991-1992 she studied extramurally at Bankakademie in Dortmund and between 1993 and 1998 she was on maternity leave taking care of her three sons. Starting 2003 she has been working as a freelance real estate manager. Jörrißen joined the Christian Democratic Union in 2003 and from 2004 to 2013 she was a district councilor for Hamm-Heessen. From 2004 she has also been a member of the local board of Women Union in Hamm, from 2005 a member of the local CDU board and from 2007 its vice-chairwoman. Between 2008 and 2013 she was a chairwoman of the district council in Heessen and from 2009 a member of the local CDU board in Hamm.

In the Bundestag election in 2013 Sylvia Jörrißen competed as a direct member for the constituency 145 Hamm-Unna II, however she entered the German Bundestag via the North Rhine-Westphalia list of state candidates. She is a member of the Committee on the Environment, Building, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and a deputy member of two further committees on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection Committee and on Transport and Digital Infrastructure.