Michael Korwisi

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Michael Korwisi (2015)

Michael Korwisi (born April 26, 1952 in Bad Homburg before the height ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and was Lord Mayor of the city of Bad Homburg before the height.

education and profession

Korwisi grew up in Bad Homburg and made there in 1971 at the Empress Frederick School (now Empress Friedrich-Gymnasium ) be High School . After studying pedagogy as well as Slavic and English philology in Frankfurt am Main , he completed a legal clerkship for teaching at the grammar school with the 2nd state examination. He then received teaching assignments at the two Homburg high schools, the Humboldt School and the Kaiserin Friedrich School, as well as at the Adult Education Centers in Bad Homburg and Oberursel (Taunus). From 1985 to 1991 he was the state manager of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen of the state association of Hesse, and then for ten years an advisor in the Hessian Ministry of the Environment .

Korwisi is married and has one grown son.

Activity in local politics

Michael Korwisi joined the Green Party in 1979 and was one of the founders of the Hochtaunus district association and the Bad Homburg association in the same year. In 1981 he was elected for the first time as a city councilor in Bad Homburg and remained active in the parliamentary group until 2001, among other things as a long-term parliamentary group chairman. From 2001 to 2006 he was a full-time city councilor in a CDU / Greens coalition. Since 2001 he has also been a member of the administrative board of Kur- und Kongreß-GmbH Bad Homburg v. d. Height.

Korwisi forced the runoff election against the CDU candidate and incumbent Ursula Jungherr , which he won on May 10, 2009 with 59.5 percent of the vote , in the mayoral election of 2009 as an independent candidate (not at the suggestion of the city council of his party) . He is the first Lord Mayor since 1948 who does not have a CDU party book.

In the mayoral election on June 14, 2015, Korwisi was able to achieve 29.8 percent of the votes in the first ballot and was thus well behind his challenger and CDU parliamentary group leader Alexander Hetjes (48.0 percent), but ahead of the competitor and mayor Karl Heinz Krug von the SPD (22.2 percent). In the runoff election on June 28, 2015, Korwisi was clearly defeated by his CDU opponent Hetjes (61.5 percent) with 38.5 percent of the vote.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mayor election in Bad Homburg runoff election - Korwisi versus Hetjes Taunus Zeitung, June 15, 2015, accessed on June 17, 2015.
  2. ↑ incumbent Korwisi deselected - Hetjes wins in Bad Homburg ( Memento of 6 July 2015 Web archive archive.today ) June 28, 2015, accessed on July 6, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Korwisi, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe