Mayor
The mayor is the chairman of the community council in communities with a full-time mayor in Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . In the independent cities and towns with more than 20,000 inhabitants, the designation city president is also possible. In the Hanseatic cities of Lübeck , Wismar , Rostock , Stralsund and Greifswald , the corresponding office is called President of the Citizenship .
In Hanover there was also the Citizens' Board .
Office and duties of the mayor
The mayor is the chairman of the municipal council and is elected from among their number. Like the other community representatives, he works on a voluntary basis. His tasks include:
- Chair of the municipal council, invitation to meetings and leadership of the meeting
- Speaker of the municipal council
- He represents the interests of the municipal council vis-à-vis the mayor and in legal proceedings
- He is the point of contact for citizens for inquiries to the municipal council
- Together with the mayor, he represents the city or the community at public events
- Convening and chairing residents' assemblies
Legal basis
Excerpt from the municipal regulations for Schleswig-Holstein from February 28, 2003:
§33 (4) :
The chairperson of the municipal council is designated mayor in municipalities with a full-time mayor, and mayor in independent cities. In district cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants, the main statute can, in deviation from sentence 1, stipulate that the chairman of the city council should be named city president.
Web links
Examples for mayors from Schleswig-Holstein cities:
- Mayor of Itzehoe and tasks
- Mayor Glinde and duties
- Mayor Geesthacht and tasks
- Mayor of Ratzeburg and tasks
Individual evidence
- ^ NN : Citizens' Board. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 95.