Burkhard Jung

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Burkhard Jung (2015)

Burkhard Jung (born March 7, 1958 in Siegen ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He has been the Lord Mayor of Leipzig since March 2006 and President of the German Association of Cities since June 6, 2019 .

Life

Origin and school time

Jung attended from 1964 to 1968 the Protestant elementary school Gosenbach in Siegen. After obtaining the general university entrance qualification at the Gymnasium Am Löhrtor in 1977, Burkhard Jung began studying German and Protestant theology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

education and profession

At the Evangelical Gymnasium in Siegen-Weidenau , he began teaching German and Evangelical Religion in 1986 and, as a lower level coordinator, was particularly concerned with new forms of interdisciplinary teaching. In 1991 he was seconded to the Evangelical School Center in Leipzig as headmaster to set up a church- sponsored elementary, middle school and grammar school . He headed this cooperative comprehensive school, which was unique in Saxony at the time, until February 1999. Jung and Michael Hilbk developed the new social-diaconal profile of the middle school. A number of specialist publications date from this time. During his teaching activities in Siegen and Leipzig, Jung was co-author of the grammar school reading book Lektüre from Schroedel-Verlag.

politics

Alderman of the City of Leipzig (1999-2006)

From 1999 to 2006, Jung was councilor for youth , school and sport , after an administrative restructuring in April 2001, councilor for youth, social affairs , health and school of the city of Leipzig. For Leipzig's application for the 2012 Olympic Games , he was the city's Olympic Commissioner for two years, until he resigned from this position in November 2003 due to a commission payment to the marketing agency SCI and was relieved of his official duties as an alderman. The editor Jens Weinreich of the Berliner Zeitung scandalized the affair . After a month's leave of absence and the termination of preliminary investigations by the public prosecutor, Jung resumed his service as an alderman in December 2003. From January 2006, Jung was also the World Cup representative for the city of Leipzig.

His priorities as an alderman were the setting of priorities for sports in the promotion of sports, youth welfare planning, numerous handovers of day-care facilities in independent sponsorship within the framework of subsidiarity, school development; Elderly assistance, disability assistance and social planning.

In 2000 he joined the SPD.

Lord Mayor of Leipzig (since 2006)

After the resignation of his predecessor Wolfgang Tiefensee , who moved to Berlin as Federal Minister of Transport in November 2005 , Jung applied for the office of Lord Mayor of Leipzig. After missing an absolute majority in the first ballot , he was elected as the new mayor of Leipzig on February 26, 2006 with a turnout of 31.7% with 51.6% of the votes and has held this office since March 29, 2006.

From March 20, 2006 to October 26, 2007 Burkhard Jung was a member of the administrative board of Landesbank Sachsen .

Burkhard Jung at the Mayor election 2013 in Leipzig City Hall at MDR aktuell LIVE

Since 2006 Burkhard Jung has been chairman of the supervisory board of Leipziger Versorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH and chairman of the administrative board of Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Leipzig. He is a member of the supervisory boards of Leipziger Messe and the European Energy Exchange .

Burkhard Jung has been a member of the presidium of the European city network Eurocities since 2006 , a member of the presidium of the German Association of Cities and the Saxon Association of Cities and Towns SSG (since 2008 Vice-President). He is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation .

Since November 2010, Jung has also been responsible for numerous cultural institutions in the city of Leipzig. He surprisingly recognized the opera, the Gewandhaus, the Central Theater, the Theater of the Young World and the music school from Michael Faber . The mayor cited the faulty crisis management of his alderman as the reason for this and initiated a voting procedure against him. In the second ballot, however, the two-thirds majority required for voting was just missed and Michael Faber remained in office.

He ran for a second term in the mayoral election in 2013. His rival candidates were in addition to the non-party, the CDU nominated former police chief Horst Wawrzynski also Felix Ekardt ( Green ), Barbara Hell ( The Left ), René Hobusch ( FDP ) and Dirk holiday ( no party affiliation ). In the second ballot on February 17, 2013, Jung was re-elected with 45.0% and was thus well ahead of the second-placed candidate Horst Wawrzynski (28.7%).

In 2018, the Saxon City and Municipal Association nominated young for the office of President of the East German Savings Banks Association . In the decisive vote of the association on September 27, both Jung and his opponent Michael Harig were defeated by incumbent Michael Ermrich . Jung remained in office as Lord Mayor.

On June 6, 2019, Jung was elected President of the German Association of Cities in his role as Lord Mayor of the City of Leipzig . The office is initially limited to two years and ends prematurely if Jung is not re-elected as Lord Mayor.

Jung's term of office as Lord Mayor ended normally in March 2020. On May 17, 2019, at an event organized by the SPD Leipzig, he announced his candidacy for President of the German Association of Cities and said that he wanted to run for a third term as Lord Mayor in 2020. In the first ballot on February 2, 2020, he received the second most votes with 29.8 percent after the CDU candidate Sebastian Gemkow with 31.6 percent. A total of eight candidates ran. The second ballot, in which a simple majority was sufficient, followed on March 1, 2020. Jung won this with 49.1 percent of the votes, about 3,300 votes ahead of Gemkow, who received 47.6 percent. The third candidate, Ute Elisabeth Gabelmann, received 3.3 percent of the vote. This was the third time in a row that Jung won the election of mayor of the city of Leipzig.

criticism

Real estate scandal "land without ownership"

At the beginning of 2012 it became known that the city of Leipzig, in particular the legal office, was selling land, in many cases without obtaining information about who the owner is. At the beginning, the published events were dismissed as individual cases. Jung later had to admit that in at least 157 cases the property of strangers was handled negligently. The number of reports from property owners whose property has been illegally sold by the city is in the low double-digit range. OB Jung then put several employees of the legal office on leave. In addition, Jung launched a special project entitled “Legal Representations”, which deals with all transactions involving the sale of supposedly ownerless properties. The former President of the Federal Administrative Court, Eckart Hien , was appointed as a neutral confidante for owners of illegally sold properties . This works closely with the special project.

In the meantime, those affected have already been compensated by the city administration. The funds raised by the sale of these properties did not flow into the city budget, but were posted to custody accounts from the start, because these funds are still due to the previously unknown owners.

Private

Burkhard Jung lives in Leipzig-Holzhausen. His first marriage was to Juliane Kirchner-Jung for 34 years. The couple have four grown-up children, including actress Alissa Jung, who was born in 1981 , and three grandchildren. They separated in 2014, and divorced the following year.

Jung's partner since 2014 and wife since September 2016 is Ayleena Jung, formerly Wagner. At the beginning of September 2016, the couple married civilly and churchly in Leipzig. It is also the second marriage for the bride, she now bears the family name of her husband. In December 2018, they became parents to a daughter.

Publications

  • Ways to renew lessons. In: 25 years of Protestant grammar school in the church district of Siegen. Ed. Evangelisches Gymnasium, Siegen 1989.
  • Haar / Jung / Treude: The two rainbows. In: Teaching renewal with Wagenschein and Comenius, Trials of Evangelical Schools 1985–1989. Edited by Berg / Gerth / Potthast, Comenius Institute, Münster 1990.
  • Book recommendations. In: reading, reading book for high schools. Volumes 5–10, Schroedel Schulbuchverlag, 1991–1993.
  • (Ed.): Evangelisches Schulzentrum Leipzig - 5 years - attempt to determine the current situation. Leipzig 1996.
  • (Ed.): Heaven and Heath. An ABC on questions of faith. Developed by students from the Evangelical School Center Leipzig, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 1997.
  • Preface. In: Right-Wing Youth: A Shock to Society? Causes, Expressions, Prevention and Intervention. Leipzig 2001.
  • Visions of a sports city. In: Leipzig sporty. The city's sporting life in the past, present and future. Leipzig 2002.

Web links

Commons : Burkhard Jung  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lord Mayor Burkhard Jung. Section Vita Lord Mayor Burkhard Jung . In: leipzig.de. City of Leipzig, accessed on May 15, 2019 .
  2. ^ City of Leipzig, Office for Statistics and Elections: Election of the Mayor of Leipzig on February 5, 2006. Retrieved on February 21, 2013
  3. ^ Resolution of the municipal election committee on the admission of applicants for the mayoral election on January 27, 2013 , leipzig.de, accessed on February 21, 2013
  4. ↑ Evelyn ter Vehn: Six candidates admitted to the 2013 OBM election in Leipzig - criticism of the process. In: lvz-online.de. January 2, 2013, archived from the original on February 17, 2013 ; Retrieved June 9, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Robert Nößler: 13 applicants want to become OBM in Leipzig - the city sends 437,000 voting cards. In: lvz-online.de. December 27, 2012, archived from the original on February 17, 2013 ; Retrieved June 9, 2016 .
  6. ^ Election in Leipzig. SPD politician Jung remains mayor. Spiegel Online from February 17, 2013, accessed on February 21, 2013
  7. ↑ Election of the Lord Mayor 2013. City of Leipzig, Office for Statistics and Elections, accessed on June 9, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Will Leipzig's OBM Burkhard Jung be the new Sparkasse President? In: LVZ.de. April 27, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Sparkassen-Verband: Leipzig's OBM Jung is defeated in the race for top positions. In: LVZ.de. September 27, 2018, accessed May 15, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Björn Meine: Leipzig's OBM Jung is the new President of the German Association of Cities. In: LVZ.de. June 6, 2019, accessed June 6, 2019 .
  11. ^ Jens Rometsch: Leipzig's OBM Burkhard Jung is applying for a third term. In: lvz.de. May 17, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  12. ↑ CDU candidate beats SPD incumbent in the first ballot. The mirror. February 2, 2020, accessed February 3, 2020.
  13. ↑ mdr.de: Jung wins mayoral election in Leipzig -. In: mdr.de. March 1, 2020, accessed March 1, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Maximilian Popp: Bottomless . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 2012, p. 81 ( online - April 30, 2012 ).
  15. ↑ Expert commission to clear up scandal surrounding abandoned land in Leipzig , LVZ-online, September 6, 2012, accessed February 5, 2016
  16. ↑ Legal representation: The city pays 17,000 euros. In: leipzig.de. November 13, 2012, accessed June 9, 2016 .
  17. ↑ http://www.bild.de/regional/leipzig/burkhard-jung/ob-jung-trichtung-exklusiv-interview-mit-der-ehefrau-36474316.bild.html
  18. ↑ Citizens' ball to kick off the 1000th anniversary in Leipzig ( Memento from September 7, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  19. ↑ http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/wissenschaften/spenden/gala-mit-schwung-42295894.bild.html
  20. ↑ Burkhard Jung with girlfriend Ayleena Wagner ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ http://www.lvz.de/Leipzig/Lokales/Burkhard-Jung-sagt-Ja-Leipzigs-Oberbuergermeister-ist-wieder-verheierter
  22. ↑ http://www.lvz.de/Leipzig/Boulevard/Leipzigs-OBM-Burkhard-Jung-Das-Baby-ist-da
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins