Christian Zoll (politician, 1941)

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Christian inch (* 27. March 1941 in Bad Kissingen , † 30th January 2017 ) was a German politician and from 1990 to 2002 the first of the SPD asked Mayor of the Bavarian state spa of Bad Kissingen. From July 1, 1972 to April 30, 2014, he was also a member of both the Bad Kissingen city ​​council and the district council of the Bad Kissingen district and, with a 42-year term in office, the longest serving local politician in the city and district. After leaving local politics, he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Bad Kissingen in 2014.

Life

After attending the Jack Steinberger Gymnasium in Bad Kissingen , Zoll studied economics at the Free University of Berlin . Politically motivated in Berlin by the German student movement of the 1960s and returned to his hometown after successfully completing his studies with a degree in economics , he became increasingly involved in local politics and in the local SPD association .

In 1972 he was elected for the first time as SPD representative both in the city council of the large district town and also in the district council of the Bad Kissingen district, which was newly formed on July 1, 1972 through territorial reform . He was a member of both parliaments for over 40 years without interruption. He was thus the longest serving local politician in the city and district of Bad Kissingen.

Until 1990, Zoll was the spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in the Bad Kissingen city council . In the local elections in 1978 and 1984, he ran unsuccessfully to elect the mayor against Hans Weiß (1978) and Georg Straus (1984), the respective candidates of the CSU . It was not until 1990 that he succeeded in the local political surprise: as the winner of the runoff election on March 18, 1990, he became the first SPD mayor in a voting landscape dominated by the CSU and took office on May 1, 1990. In the following local elections in 1996, he succeeded again in a narrow runoff election to defend his office against the CSU challenger Edmund Wilhelm . It was only after the second legislative period , that is, after a total of 12 years, that Zoll lost his office to the opponent Karl Heinz Laudenbach, who was nominated by the CSU but was not partisan .

Larger projects in Zoll's tenure were the expansion of the pedestrian zone for the purpose of calming traffic, the expansion of the eastern ring as a spacious bypass of the old town and the conversion of the Bad Kissinger Tattersall into a conference center. Two major projects that were important for the economic development of the city were, after the US Army had withdrawn, towards the end of the 1990s the development of the former barracks area into an industrial area and, from November 10, 2000, the development of the Garitz-Süd industrial area .

In the years of radical consequences of the health structure reform of 1996 with a decline in the number of overnight stays by around 25 percent from 1.9 to only 1.4 million overnight stays, this negative development had to be counteracted. In November 1998, the previous government Kurverwaltung with the parallel existing Bad Kissinger bathrooms management OHG was the city in the privately organized "Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen GmbH" together, which began operating operating on 1 January 1999 and its shares to 60 percent in Free State Bavaria and 40 percent were in the city of Bad Kissingen. This was the first time that the municipality was responsible for the operation of the former state spa. This communal participation, demanded by the Free State of Bavaria and therefore not too immediate and geared towards the future, was nevertheless reproached by Mayor Zoll by his political opponents and was one of the reasons that led to the loss of the election in 2002.

When the Staatsbad GmbH was founded, this cure company was given responsibility for the new festival “ Kissinger Winterzauber ”, the wintery counterpart to the classical music festival “ Kissinger Sommer ”. Another major cultural project during Zoll's tenure was the redesign of the Upper Saline into several individual museums such as the Bismarck Museum and (since 2011) the Kissinger World of Toys .

KissSalis Therme

On May 3, 2001, the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the KissSalis Therme , designed as a “spa area”, took place. The construction of such a thermal bath , in line with contemporary tastes, was long overdue to revive and modernize the health location. The growing construction costs were, however, also an issue of the 2002 election campaign and contributed significantly to the loss of the office of mayor. The KissSalis Therme was opened on February 28, 2004 and has been running with great success ever since.

During his tenure as city councilor and mayor, Zoll was a member of numerous committees or their chairman, such as the administrative board of Sparkasse Bad Kissingen , the supervisory board of Stadtwerke Bad Kissingen GmbH and the shareholders' meeting of Bayer. Staatsbad Bad Kissingen GmbH .

After the electoral defeat on March 3, 2002, Zoll continued its local political activities as a simple SPD member in the city council and district council until April 30, 2014 at the beginning of the following legislative period from May 1. In the local elections on March 16, 2014, he no longer ran for city council or district council.

In the civil profession, Christian Zoll and his wife Lilo owned and operated the Kurhaus Tanneck from the family of his in-laws. The Kurhaus was sold to the Heiligenfeld Clinics on January 14, 2008 . Since then, Zoll has been living in retirement. But he was still the owner of Christian Zoll KG , which manages the Behlert-Haus (apartment building and commercial building) at Hartmannstrasse 15.

Christian Zoll died on January 30, 2017 at the age of 75 and was buried on February 3 in the Bad Kissinger Parkfriedhof .

Honors

  • On June 30, 2012, Christian Zoll was allowed to enter the Golden Book of the city of Bad Kissingen after 40 years in office as a local politician .
  • In its meeting on April 9, 2014, the Bad Kissingen city council decided to appoint retired mayor. D. Christian duty "for his services to the town of Bad Kissingen" the honorary citizenship to give the city. The official ceremony took place on July 2, 2014.

Publications

  • Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the Kissingen Social Democrats , 1983
  • Effects of the third stage of the health reform on the Bavarian health resorts using the example of Bad Kissingen . In: The Bavarian Mayor , 3/1997, page 103ff.
  • Effects of the health reform on the health resorts . In: The Bavarian Mayor , 2/2000, pages 65–66

literature

  • Thomas Ahnert: Christian Zoll , in: Thomas Ahnert, Peter Weidisch (ed.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen 801–2001, facets of a city's history . Festschrift for the anniversary year and accompanying volume for the exhibition of the same name. Special publication of the Bad Kissingen city archive. Verlag TA Schachenmayer, Bad Kissingen 2001. ISBN 3-929278-16-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Farkas: Kissingen's former mayor Christian Zoll has died . Mainpost , January 31, 2017.
  2. ^ Siegfried Farkas: Clear victory for Laudenbach in: Main-Post from March 4, 2002
  3. ↑ In 2012 the city will update the consortium agreement concluded with the Free State of 1998 and increase its shareholding in Staatsbad GmbH to 46 percent, and in 2018 even take over the majority of the shares. - Source: Siegfried Farkas: Staatsbad GmbH: City is gradually taking over further shares in: Main-Post from December 15, 2011
  4. ^ Siegfried Farkas: Building the future in Heiligenfeld in: Main-Post from May 4, 2001
  5. ^ Victory for the challenger in: Main Post from December 28, 2002
  6. ↑ Company entry on firma-24.de
  7. ↑ Siegfried Farkas: The Sun King from the Leffererviertel , Main Post article from January 31, 2017
  8. ↑ 40 years of the "large district town" Bad Kissingen ; in: Saale-Zeitung of July 2, 2012
  9. ^ Bad Kissingen's ex-Mayor Zoll becomes an honorary citizen ; in: Saale-Zeitung from April 12, 2014
  10. ↑ Thomas Mäuser: A whole era shaped , in: Saale-Zeitung of July 3, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Customs, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kissingen
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2017