What is Guido van den Berg?
[[File:Guido van den Berg SPD 1 LT-NRW-by-Leila-Paul.jpg|thumb|200px|Van den Berg in 2013]] '''Guido van den Berg''' (24 February 1975 – 2 May 2019) was a [[Germans|German]] politician and [[economist]]. He was a member of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party]] (SPD). He served as a member of the [[Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia]] from 2012 until his death. At the time of his death, he was also the deputy district administrator of [[Rhein Erft Rural District|Rhein-Erft-Kreis]] since 2014.<ref name=ksta>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ksta.de/region/rhein-erft/bedburg/spd-chef-rhein-erft-bedburger-landtagsabgeordneter-van-den-berg-gestorben--32464608|title=SPD-Chef Rhein-Erft Bedburger Landtagsabgeordneter van den Berg gestorben|language=de|newspaper=Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger|date=3 May 2019|access-date=5 May 2019}}</ref> He was a member of the Rhein-Erft-Kreis district council from 1999 until his death.<ref name=LandtagNRW>{{Cite web|url=https://www.landtag.nrw.de/portal/WWW/Webmaster/GB_I/I.1/Abgeordnete/abgeordnetendetail.jsp?k=01613|title=Abgeordneter Guido van den Berg|language=de|publisher=Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia|access-date=5 May 2019|archive-date=20 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220200600/https://www.landtag.nrw.de/portal/WWW/Webmaster/GB_I/I.1/Abgeordnete/abgeordnetendetail.jsp?k=01613|url-status=dead}}</ref> Van den Berg was born in [[Grevenbroich]], [[Rhein-Kreis Neuss Rural District|Rhein-Kreis Neuss]]. He studied [[economics]] and [[political science]] at the [[University of Cologne]] and the [[University of Duisburg-Essen]]. He was married and had two children.<ref name=LandtagNRW/> Van den Berg died of cancer on 2 May 2019 in Grevenbroich. He was 44.<ref name=ksta/><ref>{{Cite news|first1=Dennis|last1=Vlaminck|url=https://www.rundschau-online.de/region/rhein-erft/bedburg/-tiefster-respekt--spd-trauert-um-guido-van-den-berg---das-sagen-seine-wegbegleiter-32466834|title=„Tiefster Respekt“ SPD trauert um Guido van den Berg – das sagen sein