Brigitte Merk-Erbe
Brigitte Merk-Erbe (born May 18, 1956 in Bayreuth ) is a German local politician of the Free Voters' Association of Bayreuth Community (BG). From May 1, 2012 to April 30, 2020, she was Lord Mayor of Bayreuth. She was elected on March 25, 2012, in the mayor's run-off election on March 29, 2020, she was defeated by the previous 2nd Mayor Thomas Ebersberger from the CSU .
Career
She was born as the youngest daughter of Erika and Bernhard Merk. After attending the Luitpold School in Bayreuth, she switched to the Richard-Wagner-Gymnasium there, where she graduated from high school in 1975. In addition, she was a member of the local swimming club for many years and took part in Upper Franconian and Bavarian championships. She studied special education at the University of Würzburg and completed an apprenticeship as a special education teacher . In 1989 she married the entrepreneur and journalist Thomas Erbe. From 1995 on, she was deputy headmistress of the Dr. Kurt Blaser School at the Curative Education Center in Bayreuth. She is the founder of the Brigitte Merk Erbe Foundation to promote the Bayreuth clubs.
Since 1995 she has been involved in local politics in the Bayreuth Community voter association . In 1996 she ran for the city council for the first time. In 1999 she was elected chairman of the Bayreuth community, and in the local elections in spring 2002, she entered the city council for the first time . There she was a member of the construction committee, the main committee and the personnel committee.
In March 2006 she achieved a respectable success in the election of the mayor with 23.73 percent. Six years later she was elected mayor. Supported by the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , she prevailed on March 25, 2012 in the runoff election with 52.77% of the votes against incumbent Michael Hohl ( CSU ). Two weeks earlier she had achieved 38.28% in the first ballot, Michael Hohl 43.60%.
Brigitte Merk-Erbe's term of office is associated with important projects for the city of Bayreuth, including the renovation and conversion of the town hall to the Friedrichsforum, renovation of the grass school, creation of the new residential area Untere Rotmainaue, creation of the Upper Franconia medical campus at the Bayreuth Clinic, preservation of the clinic of German pension insurance and various company settlements or expansions such as REHAU, Amazon, Stäubli, Tennet and Käserei Bayernland. In addition, during Brigitte Merk-Erbe's tenure, the city of Bayreuth's debts were reduced from EUR 122.9 million to EUR 75 million.
After her defeat in the runoff election in the 2020 local election , Merk-Erbe announced that she would withdraw from local politics and not accept her seat on the city council .
State politics
In the 1998 state elections , she achieved the third-best result of the Free Voters in Upper Franconia . In the state elections in 2008 , Merk-Erbe ran as a direct candidate in the Bayreuth district and achieved 17.0% of the first votes in third place.
Offices and functions
as Lord Mayor of Bayreuth (terminated)
- Chairwoman of the city council and city committees
- Member of the Bavarian and German Association of Cities.
- Chairwoman of the supervisory board of the municipal GmbH
as honorary board member (terminated)
- First chairwoman of the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation
- Board member of the Bayreuth Sports Board
- Chairwoman of the Foundation for Educational Support, the Emil Warburg Foundation, the Hans and Martha Frisch Altenstiftung, the Hans-und-Emma-Vorteilel-Altenstiftung, the E.ON-Bayern-Kulturstiftung, the Dr.-Helmut-und-Constanze -Meyer Art Foundation, the Bernd Mayer Foundation and the Professor Dr. Klaus Dettmann Art Foundation
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The era of Brigitte Merk-Erbe is over in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of March 30, 2020, p. 7.
- ^ Results of the 2006 mayor election
- ↑ Results of the 2012 runoff election
- ↑ Results of the May 2012 election
- ↑ Merk-Erbe withdraws in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of April 2, 2020, p. 9.
Mayor: Erhard Hagen von Hagenfels (1818–1848) | Friedrich Carl Dilchert (1851–1863) | Theodor von Muncker (1863–1900) . Lord Mayor: Leopold von Casselmann (1900–1918) | Albert Preu (1919–1933) | Karl Schlumprecht (1933–1937) | Otto Schmidt (1937–1938) | Fritz Wächtler (1938) | Fritz Kempfler (1938–1945) | Josef Kauper (1945) | Oscar Meyer (1945–1948) | Hans Rollwagen (1948–1958) | Hans Walter Wild (1958–1988) | Dieter Mronz (1988-2006) | Michael Hohl (2006–2012) | Brigitte Merk-Erbe (2012–2020) | Thomas Ebersberger (since 2020)
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| SURNAME | Merk-Erbe, Brigitte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician (free voters) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayreuth |