Dieter Reiter

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Dieter Reiter (2020)

Dieter Reiter (born May 19, 1958 in Rain ) is a German local politician of the SPD . He has been Lord Mayor of the Bavarian capital of Munich since May 1, 2014 as the successor to Christian Ude .

Life

education and profession

Reiter grew up in Munich from the age of three. After graduating from high school , he completed a degree at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and Justice in Hof an der Saale , which he graduated in 1981 with a degree in administrative management . He then worked in the Munich city administration , including in the city treasury as head of the treasury and tax office. In April 2009 he became a professional city councilor in Munich and, as the successor to Reinhard Wieczorek, advisor for work and economics in the state capital. In the economic department, in line with the line of the Munich SPD, he advocated that, contrary to the Germany-wide trend , municipal companies (such as the Munich municipal hospitals ) should not be privatized , but rather left in public hands. The municipal subsidies granted to the New Munich Trade Fair Center have been reduced by Reiter (as of 2010) since he took office.

Party and office of the Lord Mayor

In January 2011, Reiter expressed interest in the office of Lord Mayor of Munich, which was newly awarded in the 2014 local elections, and was proposed as the only applicant on October 25, 2011 by the Munich SPD executive committee to the local nomination assembly. Before that, 33 of the 44 SPD local associations had spoken out in favor of him (instead of one of the two competitors - SPD city council leader Alexander Reissl and social affairs officer Brigitte Meier). On December 12, 2011, the members of the Munich SPD decided unanimously at a party congress to send riders in the race for the office of Lord Mayor of Munich. In the runoff election of the 2014 municipal elections in Munich , Reiter was elected mayor on March 30, 2014 with 56.7 percent of the vote.

Dieter Reiter during the small SPD party conference in Munich-Trudering (2013)

Until April 2011, Reiter was a member of the local SPD association in his former residence in Straßlach-Dingharting in the Munich district , so he switched to the Munich-Au local association and has lived in Munich ever since. In Straßlach-Dingharting he ran unsuccessfully for the local council in the 2008 local elections. He was nominated there in second place on the SPD candidate list; however, the SPD only achieved one council seat. On March 30, 2014 Reiter was elected the new Lord Mayor of Munich in a runoff election. The opposing candidate in the runoff election was Josef Schmid ( CSU ). On May 1, 2014, Reiter succeeded Christian Ude, who was no longer able to compete for reasons of age. After the following alliance negotiations with the city council factions of the Greens and CSU, which dragged on until mid-May, Reiter proposed a cooperation with the CSU and thus an end to the coalition of the SPD, Greens and Pink List in the city council. On May 21, 2014 Josef Schmid was elected as the second mayor, the previous second mayor Christine Strobl of the SPD became the third mayor. In Munich's mayor election on March 15, 2020 , he missed an absolute majority in the first ballot with 47.9% and had to run for the runoff election on March 29 against the second-placed Kristina Frank (CSU, 21.3%). Reiter won this with 71.7% of the votes cast, which means that he can take up another term as Lord Mayor.

criticism

Reiter came under fire in June 2013 for accepting an invitation from FC Bayern Munich worth several thousand euros to the Champions League final on May 25, 2013 at Wembley Stadium . The invitation included admission to the stadium as well as flights, accommodation and a supporting program. According to the city guidelines, employees of the state capital of Munich may only accept gifts with a maximum value of 15 euros without authorization. Reiter stated that Lord Mayor Christian Ude had approved the trip, which Ude confirmed.

Reiter described himself as a Microsoft fan in 2014 and was involved as a business advisor when Microsoft Germany decided in 2013 to move its headquarters from Unterschleißheim to Munich. In 2016, Dieter Reiter opened the new Microsoft company headquarters for Germany in Munich. As mayor, with the backing of the Munich CSU, Reiter tried to force the reversal of LiMux and the return to Microsoft Windows in the Munich city administration. He blames LiMux for process problems. His efforts go beyond the recommendations of an expert opinion by Accenture. These plans were controversially discussed, including criticism from the Free Software Foundation Europe . With the majority of the black-red coalition, the Munich city council decided in 2017 to switch to Microsoft by 2020.

Further offices and engagement

As head of the Department for Labor and Economics of the City of Munich, after the dissolution of the Tourism Office in 2013, he took over from Gabriele Weishäupl the office of festival director of the Oktoberfest . In 2016, Reiter was elected to the Presidium of the German Association of Cities .

Private

Reiter has been married to Petra Reiter for the second time since 2003 and has one child from his first marriage. Petra Reiter brought two children into the marriage. In November 2018, Reiter, as a hobby singer and guitarist, together with the Paul Daly Band, released a charity CD with Christmas carols for the benefit of the Children's Hospital Munich-Schwabing.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Dieter Reiter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reiter and Schmid: The duel for the Munich OB chair . Evening newspaper online November 5, 2010, accessed April 26, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c d Lisa Sonnabend and Beate Wild: Allow me, my name is a rider . sueddeutsche.de from October 25, 2011, accessed on October 25, 2011
  3. ↑ Willi Bock: Dieter Reiter: The next Ude . Evening newspaper online from October 21, 2010, accessed on April 26, 2011
  4. ↑ Peter Fahrenholz: I want to be mayor . sueddeutsche.de from January 23, 2011, accessed on April 27, 2015
  5. ↑ Peter Fahrenholz: The man after Ude . sueddeutsche.de from October 25, 2011, accessed on October 25, 2011
  6. ↑ Dominik Hutter and Silke Lode: Dieter Reiter elected unanimously . sueddeutsche.de from December 12, 2011, accessed on April 27, 2015
  7. ^ Matthias Kristlbauer: Dieter Reiter changes to the SPD local association Au . merkur-online.de of March 18, 2011, accessed on April 26, 2011
  8. ↑ Big victory in the runoff election: SPD man Reiter becomes mayor of Munich . Spiegel online from March 30, 2014, accessed March 30, 2014
  9. ↑ OB election in Munich: Surprising runoff constellation - Corona forces you to vote by mail , merkur.de , March 17, 2020
  10. ↑ Bavaria: Dieter Reiter is again Lord Mayor of Munich , spiegel.de , March 30, 2020
  11. ↑ Silke Lode and Frank Müller: Favorable Connection , Sueddeutsche.de of June 20, 2013
  12. ↑ City of Munich: Guidelines on the prohibition of accepting rewards or gifts (PDF; 145 kB) from July 1, 2007, accessed on June 21, 2013
  13. ↑ Silke Lode: Rider because of free travel under pressure , Sueddeutsche.de from June 20, 2013
  14. ↑ "I'm a Microsoft fan": Munich mayor criticizes Linux. In: derstandard.at . July 16, 2014, accessed February 17, 2017 .
  15. ↑ a b Stefan Krempl: LiMux-Aus in Munich: Opposition railed against "catastrophic wrong decision" - heise online. In: heise.de. February 12, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Oliver Frommel: Comment: LiMux - it stinks »ADMIN magazine. In: admin-magazin.de. February 14, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
  17. ↑ NachDenkseiten: Munich submits to Microsoft - laptop and lederhosen don't go together. In: nachdenkseiten.de. February 16, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
  18. ↑ a b Stefan Krempl: Out for LiMux: Munich city council says hello to the penguin - heise online. In: heise.de. February 15, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Antje Pöhner: Dieter Reiter: The new Wiesn boss and the fear of tapping. In: welt.de . September 17, 2012, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Note in: Städtetag aktuell, issue 3/2018, page 14
  21. ↑ Dieter Reiter: At home with the SPD's OB candidate . Merkur-online on February 17, 2014, accessed on February 24, 2014
  22. ^ Franz Kotteder: Lord Mayor Reiter celebrates the "Christmas season in Munich". In: SZ.de. November 19, 2018, accessed December 20, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Personal details - Charity . In: Bunte . No. 50/2018 . Burda-Verlag, December 6, 2018.
  24. ↑ Felix Müller: Refugee Policy: Mayor Reiter accepts award for Munich residents. Münchner Merkur, February 29, 2016, accessed on February 29, 2016 .
  25. ↑ Mayor Dieter Reiter receives the Karl-Valentin-Orden , Muenchen.de from October 17th, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Reiter, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Rain