Education
Between 1974 and 1978 she attended primary school in Meerbusch, Herford and Hamm, between 1978 and 1987 she attended Hammonense academic secondary school in Hamm and obtained Abitur (higher-education entrance qualification). In 1987 she began a two-year training as a bank clerk at the Hamm branch of Deutsche Bank, where she got her diploma as a banking specialist. From 1989 to 1993 she worked in the Deutsche Bank cross-regional support association for loans and business customers in Hamm and Osnabrück, 1991-1992 she studied studied part-time at Bankakademie in Dortmund whilst working, between 1993 and 1998 she was on maternity leave and had a career break to raise children.
Since 2003 she has been working as a freelance real property manager.
Career
Professionally Jörrißen is a certified banking specialist. In the election in 2013 Sylvia Jörrißen competed as a direct member for the constituency 145 Hamm-Unna II, however she entered the German via the North Rhine-Westphalia list of state candidates. Sylvia Jörrißen is married with the manager of the construction company HGB in Hamm, Thomas Jörrißen and lives with her family in Hamm-Heessen.
Her father, Norwin Wegner, was a city councilor from the Free Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party)) for many years.
Jörrißen is a fan of the football club Football Club Schalke 04.
Membership
In the parliamentary election in 2013 she was elected as a member of the German Jörrißen joined the Christian Democratic Union in 2003 and from 2004 to 2013 she was a member of the Hamm-Heessen district council. Since 2004 she has also been a member of the executive committee of the Hamm county branch of Women´s Union. Since 2005 a member of the local Heessen branch of the Christian Democratic Union and since 2007 its vice-chairwoman.
Between 2008 and 2013 she was a chairwoman of the district council in Heessen and since 2009 a member of the executive committee of the Hamm county branch of the Christian Democratic Union. 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.
Since 2004 she is a member of the association supporting Hammonense academic secondary school. Since 2011 she is also a founding member and director of the association supporting Oberwerries Manor.
