Christoph Gerwers

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Christoph Gerwers (born January 27, 1963 in Bislich ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He is the full-time mayor of the Lower Rhine city ​​of Rees .

Life

He graduated from high school in 1982 at the Konrad-Duden-Gymnasium Wesel , which was still called the State Old and New Language Gymnasium Wesel during his schooling there and from 1977 onwards the City Gymnasium Wesel Nord . He then studied law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . He passed his first state examination in 1988 at the Hamm Higher Regional Court and his second state examination in 1991 at the State Judicial Examination Office . From 1991 to 1992 he was a consultant for water law at the Federal Association of the German Gas and Water Management in Bonn , then head of the legal and regulatory office of the city of Willich , and from 1995 also head of the school and sport department. From 1997 he was in Willich Assistant Secretary for Youth / Social, school / sports / culture and inhabitants / order. He was re-elected in this position in 2005. From July 2008 to October 2009 he was first alderman. Parallel to his legal training and his work in Willich, he was a city ​​councilor in Wesel from 1989 to 1998 .

From 2001 to 2010, Christoph Gerwers was honorary chairman of the DRK , Willich local association and, since 2007, a member of the advisory board of the Katharinen Hospital Willich.

He is married and has a son and a daughter.

mayor

Since October 21, 2009, Christoph Gerwers has been the full-time mayor of Rees as the successor to Bruno Ketteler, who is no longer in office . In the mayoral election of 2009 he was elected with 54.85 percent of the valid votes and a turnout of 52.30 percent, in the mayoral election of 2015 Christoph Gerwers was re-elected with 66.6 percent of the valid votes.

engagement

As part of his mayoral work, Christoph Gerwers is active in various committees. Among other things, he is chairman of the supervisory board and member of the shareholders 'meeting of Stadtwerke Rees, operations manager of the Rees building yard and the municipal sewage works, chairman of the shareholders' meeting of the urban development company (SEG) Rees, member of the administrative board of the Stadtsparkasse Emmerich-Rees, member of the association meeting of the Rheinische Sparkassen- und Giroverband , member of the RWE regional advisory board and head of the Wittenhorst water supply association.

In addition, Christoph Gerwers is a member of the Committee for Education, Sport and Culture of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities , which is headed by the Schleswig Mayor Arthur Christiansen , chairman of the Committee for School, Culture and Sport of the Association of Cities and Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia and a member of the Euregio Council of the Euregio Rhine-Waal .

He is the chairman of the board of the Koenraad Bosman Foundation, chairman of the shareholders' meeting of the Rees Youth Foundation and chairman of the Rees local group of the German War Graves Commission .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Since 1974 a district of the city of Wesel .
  2. ^ Results of the city of Rees of the local elections 2009 on rees-erleben.de
  3. ↑ Composition of the shareholders' meeting and the supervisory board of Stadtwerke Rees GmbH on rees-erleben.de
  4. ↑ SEG Rees GmbH on rees-erleben.de
  5. ↑ Composition of the Committee for Education, Sport and Culture at the German Association of Towns and Municipalities, as of March 2015 ( Memento from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on dstgb.de
  6. ↑ Members of the Committee for School, Culture and Sport of the Association of Cities and Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia on kommunen-in-nrw.de ( PDF ).
personal data
SURNAME Gerwers, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Mayor of Rees
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Up to now