Dietmar Hahlweg
Dietmar Hahlweg (born December 31, 1934 in Jagatschütz , Trebnitz district , Lower Silesia province ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1972 to 1996 he was Lord Mayor of Erlangen .
CV up to the mayor's office
Dietmar Hahlweg was born in the Lower Silesian village of Jagatschütz near Prausnitz . After the Second World War he lived with his family in Upper Franconia. After graduating from high school in 1953, Hahlweg studied law in Bonn, Munich and Erlangen from 1953 to 1957. In 1960 he received his doctorate from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . After the second state examination , a stay abroad at the University of Pittsburgh followed in 1961/62 .
From 1964, Hahlweg was a civil servant at the Erlangen district office. 1971/72 he headed the office for planning and construction supervision at the government of Middle Franconia .
Dietmar Hahlweg is married. The TV presenter Barbara Hahlweg is his daughter.
Lord Mayor of Erlangen (1972 to 1996)
Election results
Hahlweg stood for the first time in 1971 as a candidate of the SPD for the office of Lord Mayor of Erlangen, defeated incumbent Heinrich Lades with 48.1 percent of the votes . In the new election of the mayor, which became necessary a year later due to the regional reform , he clearly won against Lades with 56.4 percent. When he took office, he was the youngest Lord Mayor of Bavaria at the age of 37.
In the mayor elections in 1978 (57.9 percent among others against Gerd Lohwasser (CSU)), 1984 (59.4 percent among others against Gerd Lohwasser) and 1990 (57.4 percent among others against Joachim Herrmann ) Hahlweg was in all Cases confirmed in office in the first ballot. In the 1996 mayor election, Hahlweg decided not to run again and resigned from office on April 30, 1996. Siegfried Balleis (CSU) was elected as his successor .
Environmental policy
Dietmar Hahlweg's “conviction of the equality of ecology and economy” became a trademark of Dietmar Hahlweg's politics. This led to an urban development based on environmental considerations with environmentally friendly transport policy and landscape and garden planning. Above all, the consistent promotion of bicycle traffic earned Erlangen the reputation of a bicycle city . But other measures under Dietmar Hahlweg, such as the modernization of the sewage treatment plant, the expansion of the district heating and natural gas network and the direct feed of solar power into the public utility network, led to the inclusion in the UN honorary list " Global 500 " and the award of the title " Federal capital for nature and environmental protection " by Deutsche Umwelthilfe both in 1990 and 1991.
Ostpolitik
The social democrat Hahlweg also tried to support Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik at the local level. This included events such as “Encounter with Poland” (1976) or the start of negotiations on a town twinning with Vladimir in the former Soviet Union . In 1987 these were just as successful as the negotiations with Jena .
German Association of Cities
Hahlweg was a member of several committees of the German Association of Cities and its representative in the Committee of the Regions .
Awards
Dietmar Hahlweg has received a large number of awards in his life. In 1981 he received the Nature Conservation Prize of the Federal Nature Conservation in Bavaria. He has been a knight of the French Legion of Honor since 1991, and in 1993 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. Since 1995 he has been awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit . He is also an honorary senator of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
For his services to the city of Erlangen, Dietmar Hahlweg was made an honorary citizen of Erlangen when he left office in 1996 .
In the same year he received the Max and Moritz Prize as a “special prize” from the jury at the Erlangen Comic Salon . "It is thanks to this man, who does not even want to be called an explicit comic fan, that the Erlangen Comic-Salon was able to become what it is today: a comic festival with a worldwide reputation." ( Raphael Wünsch 1996 )
Dietmar Hahlweg became known nationwide through the Erlangen fun metal band JBO , as he is mentioned in their song The White Hai in the Dechsendorfer Weiher .
literature
- Christoph Friederich, Bertold Freiherr von Haller, Andreas Jakob (Hrsg.): Erlanger Stadtlexikon . W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-921590-89-2 ( online ).
- Schweigert, Walter / Treuheit, Klaus (editor): ... that the human being is a helper to the human being ... 120 years of social democracy in Erlangen , Erlangen 1990
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Klaus Springen: The way to the present , in: 1000 years Erlangen , special edition of the Erlanger Nachrichten
- ^ Raphael Wünsch: International Comic Salon Erlangen 1996 . In: Hinter-Net! . Retrieved November 15, 2009.
Johann Sigmund Lindner (1818–1827) | Ferdinand Lammers (1828–1855) | Carl Wolfgang Knoch (1855–1865) | Heinrich August Papellier (1866–1872) | Johann Edmund Reichold (1872–1877) | Friedrich Scharff (1878–1880) | Georg von Schuh (1881–1892) | Theodor Klippel (1892–1929) | Hans Flierl (1929–1934) | Alfred Groß (1934–1944) | Herbert Ohly (1944–1945, come) | Anton Hammerbacher (1945–1946) | Michael Poeschke (1946–1959) | Heinrich Lades (1959–1972) | Dietmar Hahlweg (1972–1996) | Siegfried Balleis (1996–2014) | Florian Janik (since 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hahlweg, Dietmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician, Lord Mayor of Erlangen (1972–1996) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jagatschütz , Trebnitz district , Lower Silesia province |