Ekkehart Meroth
Ekkehart Meroth (born July 24, 1957 in Freiburg i. Breisgau ) has a doctorate in law, a university professor and a former CDU local politician. He was mayor of Bad Krozingen from 1998 to 2014 .
biography
From 1967 to 1976 Ekkehart Meroth attended the Rotteck-Gymnasium in Freiburg. After his military service, he studied law in Freiburg, Heidelberg and Vienna on a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. In 1989 he did his doctorate with Karl Kroeschell at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . From 1987 to 1998 he worked at Deutsche Bank and its subsidiaries. From 1998 to 2014 he was mayor of Bad Krozingen. He has been a professor at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University since 2015 .
Professional career
After completing a trainee training at Deutsche Bank , Meroth worked in the HR department at headquarters, among other things as head of HR planning for the group. Here he was involved in the integration of foreign banks and, after reunification, at the state bank of the GDR .
As managing director of subsidiaries and head of controlling the real estate assets of the bank (DEBEKO / Deutsche Grundbesitz), he was involved in major projects (takeover and construction of the Trianon , takeover of 70 bank buildings in the former GDR), mergers, major insolvency proceedings (real estate bankruptcy Jürgen Schneider ) from 1993–1998 and the purchase of Deutschbau (39,000 apartments).
From 1998 to 2014 Meroth was mayor of the Bad Krozingen spa . In 2002 the community was declared a middle center together with the city of Staufen , and in 2005 Bad Krozingen was granted city rights. Meroth was chairman of several special purpose associations and the Volkshochschule Südlicher Breisgau , he was a member of the district council and the regional association.
During his tenure, the high unemployment after the crisis in the rehabilitation clinics (loss of 800 jobs) was eliminated through the establishment of companies and the expansion of acute medicine.
As part of the Trans-European Networks , after the construction of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel and the Gotthard Base Tunnel, a large part of the European freight traffic is to be routed through the Upper Rhine Valley ( CODE24 project ). After unsuccessful negotiations with the railway, Meroth initiated the establishment of the citizens' initiative MUT (6000 members), which implemented a new plan for the low-lying route in southern Breisgau. The MUT was the starting point for the BOHR interest group on the Upper and High Rhine (20,000 members), which achieved the abolition of the rail bonus from 2013 (new version of Section 43 (2) of the BImSchG ).
Honorary positions (extract)
Meroth was managing director and deputy state chairman of the Baden-Württemberg student union . He was district chairman of the Junge Union and deputy district chairman of the CDU in Freiburg.
He initiated the establishment of the Bad Krozingen City Museum, the Biengen Community Museum and the local community foundation . He supported the Friends of the Birchiburg ruins and the safeguarding of Stone Age and Roman sites in Bad Krozingen.
As chairman of the Benedikt-Kreutz e. V. contributed to the expansion of the heart center belonging to it and in 2012 to the merger of this center with departments of the Freiburg University Hospital to form the Freiburg-Bad Krozingen University Heart Center (UHZ). Today he is a member of the board of the Benedikt-Kreutz e. V. and on the supervisory board of the UHZ, the largest cardiological center in Germany. He is a member of the supervisory board of Theresienklinik Bad Krozingen.
In the Presidium of the Baden-Württemberg Spa Association (1998–2016), most recently as President, Meroth provided various impulses, including reorienting the spa in the market. He developed the idea and established the “Wellness Stars GmbH”, which belongs to the association. He was a member of the State Committee for Tourism and one of the deputies of the President of the German Spas Association .
Meroth has been involved in the selection of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation scholarship recipients for 30 years . He is a member of the state board of the CDU lawyers. He is a member of the supervisory board of the non-profit social enterprise KWA Kuratorium Wohnen im Alter and has been its deputy chairman since June 2016.
Fonts
- Disciplinary and criminal jurisdiction of the University of Freiburg in the 19th and 20th centuries: a treatise on the legal basis and the actual circumstances of the academic discipline after the transition from Freiburg to Baden , Freiburg (Breisgau), University, dissertation, 1989.
- Bad Krozingen: Past and Present , Freiburg, Br .: Rombach, 2008, Erw. Neudr. Of the 1959 edition, 1st ed. / Ed. on behalf of the city of Bad Krozingen by Ekkehart Meroth and Susanne Berkemer.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ekkehart Meroth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview with Ekkehart Meroth in the Badische Zeitung
Individual evidence
- ^ [1] See report in the Badische Zeitung from January 20, 2014.
- ↑ [2] See employees of the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University.
- ↑ [3] See report on 10 years of community foundation.
- ^ [4] Cf. Supervisory Board of the University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen.
- ↑ [5] Cf. regional working group for Christian Democratic Jurists.
- ↑ [6] See company announcement from KWA Kuratorium Wohnen at the age of June 20, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meroth, Ekkehart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mayor and local politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |