Dagmar Mühlenfeld

Mühlenfeld in March 2015

Dagmar Mühlenfeld (born March 2, 1951 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German local politician of the SPD and former directly elected Lord Mayor of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr. She has been a member of the RWE AG Supervisory Board since September 20, 2007 .

Family and work

Dagmar Mühlenfeld has lived in the city on the Ruhr since she was born ; she is married and has one grown son. Her husband Rolf Mühlenfeld has been a city ​​councilor in Mülheim an der Ruhr since 1999 . Dagmar Mühlenfeld is originally a teacher; she has passed state exams for teaching at grammar schools in the subjects of German and history. Before taking office as Lord Mayor, she was the headmistress of the Luisenschule municipal high school . At the same school, Dagmar Mühlenfeld graduated from high school in 1969.

Dagmar Mühlenfeld is a member of the RWE AG Supervisory Board .

politics

Dagmar Mühlenfeld has been a member of the SPD since May 1, 1975. In 2001 she prevailed in a battle vote for the chairmanship of the Mülheim SPD against the previous incumbent Thomas Schröer, who was criticized within the party. Until then, Dagmar Mühlenfeld was chairman of the local SPD association in Heißen in Mülheim an der Ruhr for several years .

After the resignation of the previous Lord Mayor Jens Baganz for personal reasons in November 2002, new elections for the office of Lord Mayor were scheduled for March 2003. The Mülheim SPD nominated Dagmar Mühlenfeld by primary election as its candidate for the early mayoral elections. On March 23, 2003, she came first in the runoff election , which she won on April 6, 2003 with almost 53 percent of the votes cast and a little less than 40 percent voter turnout against the CDU applicant. In 2003 Dagmar Mühlenfeld handed over the office of Mülheim SPD chairman to her previous deputy, Frank Esser . In the Mayor election on August 30, 2009, Mühlenfeld was confirmed in office for another five years with 43.1% of the votes.

The largest project she is driving forward is the Ruhrbania project .

During her tenure as Lord Mayor, Mühlenfeld was a member of the German delegation in the Committee of the Regions and deputy head of the general assembly of the Ruhr Regional Association . In addition, she was co-founder and spokesperson for the “Get out of debt!” Alliance and, from April 25, 2013, until her resignation, deputy to the President of the German Association of Cities .

On February 9, 2015, it was announced that Mühlenfeld will not be available for re-election as mayor in 2015. On September 13, 2015, the Mülheim voters elected Mühlenfeld's party friend Ulrich Scholten as his successor in the mayor's office, who took office on October 21, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gertrud Hussla: Trick, camouflage - how municipalities fight against empty coffers . In: Handelsblatt.com of May 7, 2010
2. ↑ Andreas Heinrich: Mülheim mayor continues to make European policy . In: derwesten.de of January 29, 2015
3. ↑ Nuremberg Lord Mayor Ulrich Maly elected as the new President of the German Association of Cities In: staedtetag.de of April 25, 2013
4. ↑ Gertrud Hussla: Trick, camouflage - how municipalities fight against empty coffers . In: Handelsblatt.com of May 7, 2010
5. ↑ Andreas Heinrich: Mülheim's mayor Dagmar Mühlenfeld stops . In: derwesten.de from February 9, 2015
6. ↑ Ulrich Scholten directly elected Lord Mayor! In: Website of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr. September 13, 2015, accessed September 14, 2015 . 

Web links

• Personal details of Dagmar Mühlenfeld on the city's website ( Memento from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Mülheim's mayor from 1808 until today