Braunschweig citizens' initiative

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Basic data
Establishment date:	July 10, 2006
Place of foundation:	Braunschweig
Group leader:	Wolfgang Büchs
Council members:	Wolfgang Büchs Peter Rosenbaum Astrid Buchholz
Home address:	Platz der Deutschen Einheit 1, 38100 Braunschweig
Website:	www.bibs-fraktion.de

The Braunschweig Citizens 'Initiative , or BIBS for short, is an association of citizens' initiatives and individuals who are active in local politics in Braunschweig .

The BIBS is not a political party, has no organizational structure according to the statutes and therefore no officially registered members. Every citizen from Braunschweig and the region can be active in it, regardless of a possible party affiliation. Historical revisionist positions (e.g. denial of the Holocaust ) are excluded .

For the first time, BIBS was elected to the City Council of Braunschweig with 7% of the votes in the local elections on September 10, 2006 and was represented there by four council members until the end of March 2009. On March 23, 2009, two of the council members switched to the Greens . In the local elections on September 11, 2011, BIBS was elected to the Braunschweig city council for the second time in a row as the fourth strongest force (4.8%). It was represented by three council members since the beginning of the 18th council period. According to the principle of rotation, the parliamentary group chairman was initially Henning Jenzen, then Peter Rosenbaum, and finally Wolfgang Büchs.

In the local election on September 11, 2016, BIBS was able to increase its result by 1.2 percentage points to 6%. Since November 1, 2016, the BIBS parliamentary group has been represented in the city council with three representatives: Astrid Buchholz, Wolfgang Büchs and Henning Jenzen. The work of the BIBS council group is supported by an office. After the BIBS had one mandate in the Nordstadt district council from 2006 to 2011 and two mandates in the Schunteraue district council, BIBS has been represented in 10 of the 19 city districts since the beginning of the new election period in 2011.

As of 2016, BIBS has now moved into 15 of 19 city district councils, including four districts with two mandates each. BIBS has deputy district mayors in three districts: Sabine Bartsch in the Schunteraue district, Niels Salveter in the Timmerlah-Geitelde-Stiddien district and Tatjana Jenzen in the Wabe-Schunter-Beberbach district. In May 2017, Peter Rosenbaum replaced Henning Jenzen, who had left the city council for professional reasons.

Web links

Homepage of the BIBS council group

Individual evidence

↑ Councilors Gundel and Steinert leave the Bibs parliamentary group , Braunschweiger Zeitung of March 24, 2009, quote: “In particular, recurring, resounding differences in the question of objectivity in the content and appearance of the Bibs are the cause for us To give up cooperation. "
↑ http://www.newsclick.de/index.jsp/menuid/2048/artid/14850173
↑ A political duo from Waggum leads the large district. Braunschweiger Zeitung , accessed on December 22, 2016
↑ Uwe Meier: Interview with the resigned councilor Henning Jenzen: "Truthfulness is a very high good". Accessed February 12, 2018 (German).

[1] Councilors Gundel and Steinert leave the Bibs parliamentary group , Braunschweiger Zeitung of March 24, 2009, quote: “In particular, recurring, resounding differences in the question of objectivity in the content and appearance of the Bibs are the cause for us To give up cooperation. "

[2] ttp://www.newsclick.de/index.jsp/menuid/2048/artid/14850173

[3] A political duo from Waggum leads the large district. Braunschweiger Zeitung , accessed on December 22, 2016

[4] Uwe Meier: Interview with the resigned councilor Henning Jenzen: "Truthfulness is a very high good". Accessed February 12, 2018 (German).