Eckhard Ruthemeyer

Eckhard Ruthemeyer (born November 19, 1960 in Hagen am Teutoburger Wald ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He is the full-time mayor of the Westphalian district town of Soest .

Life

Eckhard Ruthemeyer grew up in Georgsmarienhütte . He studied law at the University of Münster and received his doctorate in 1994 on the subject of the basics and limits of local authority urgent decision-making competence in Lower Saxony . He is married and has three sons.

Career

Soest Town Hall (2008)

In Georgsmarienhütte, Ruthemeyer was a member of the municipal council from 1986 to 1990 and from 1990 to 1996 he worked in Wolfsburg , where he was the head of the combing department . From 1996 he was first alderman and city treasurer in Soest. On September 12, 1999, he was directly elected as the successor to Peter Brüseke with 52.9 percent of the valid votes as the first full-time mayor of the city of Soest. He was also able to prevail in the next mayoral election in 2004, but only after the runoff election, which he won against the SPD candidate Heinz Rethage with 59.3 percent of the valid votes. In the mayoral election in 2009 he was re-elected with 55.6 percent of the valid votes, in the mayoral election in 2014 after the runoff election with 51.85 percent of the valid votes.

engagement

He is chairman of the Soest municipal operations (AöR), the Soest district housing and settlement cooperative (KWS), the investment committee of the Lippeverband and the board of trustees of the Soest Wiesenkirche .

Eckhard Ruthemeyer is a member of the board of trustees of the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences , the municipal advisory board of the drinking water supply company Gelsenwasser , the advisory board of the NRW.Bank , the supervisory board of the Provinzial NordWest , the regional committee and the supervisory board of the structural funding program Regionale 2013 , the board of trustees of the cathedral building association of St. -Patrokli-Doms , the association assembly council and the association assembly of the Sparkassenverband Westfalen-Lippe as well as the board of trustees of the Central Institute Islam Archive Germany .

Eckhard Ruthemeyer has been a member of the Presidium of the Association of Cities and Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia since April 2005. Since November 2017 he has been First Vice President of the Association of Cities and Municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia . He is a member of the main committee of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities .

Web links

• Homepage ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on eckhard-ruthemeyer.de, as of April 17, 2014
• Literature by Eckhard Ruthemeyer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on eckhard-ruthemeyer.de (no longer online).
2. ↑ Mayor election of Soest 1999 on Wahlresults.nrw.de
3. ↑ Mayor election of Soest 2004 on Wahlresults.nrw.de
4. ↑ List of secondary jobs in 2011 on eckhard-ruthemeyer.de (no longer online).
5. ↑ Members of the main committee of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on dstgb.de, as of January 5, 2016. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Peter Brüseke (SPD)	Mayor of the city of Soest since 1999