Arnd Voigt

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Georg Arnd Voigt (born September 10, 1950 in Zittau ; † February 19, 2020 ) was a German local politician . From 2001 to 2015 he was Lord Mayor of the large district town of Zittau.

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Voigt was born in the center of Zittau in the house at Boehmische Strasse 31. In 1955 the family moved into their newly built home in Neu-Hartau. After completing his apprenticeship prematurely in 1967, Voigt initially worked in Dresden and from 1972 as an electrical engineer at VEB Robur-Werke . He completed a distance learning course as a master of communications engineering. After the reunification, Voigt founded a master company for telecommunications systems in the Hartau community .

After the change in the political situation, Voigt was elected mayor of Hartau; after their incorporation in Zittau in 1999 he was the mayor of Hartau. As Hartau mayor, he campaigned for the preservation of the Hartau water cooperative, which was questioned in the course of the incorporation.

During this time Voigt was one of the founding members of the electoral association “Freie Bürger Zittau e. V. ". In the election of the mayor of Zittau in 2001, he successfully stood as a candidate for the Free Citizens and replaced the previous mayor Jürgen Kloß (CDU) on August 1st. In 2012 Voigt announced that he had Parkinson's disease . After two terms in office, he did not run for new elections in 2015; Thomas Zenker became his successor as Lord Mayor .

Significant events during his term of office were the Neisse floods in 2010, the celebrations of the EU's eastward expansion and the incorporation of Hirschfelde . He also initiated the exhibition of the Zittau epitaph treasure in the monastery church.

Voigt was married and had three children. He lived in Hartau.

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  1. ↑ Obituary notice, February 22, 2020
  2. ↑ The sewage dispute has been settled , Sächsische Zeitung, February 14, 2001
  3. ↑ Now there is no big chair back , Sächsische Zeitung, June 7, 2001
  4. ↑ Mayor of Zittau makes his illness public - despite Parkinson's in office
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SURNAME Voigt, Arnd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voigt, Georg Arnd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 2020