Ernst Küchler

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Ernst Küchler (born April 7, 1944 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a politician of the SPD , which he joined in 1969. Before that he was a member of the CDU , which was hardly known to the public and its employees. From 1998 to 2004 he was a member of the German Bundestag . He left the Bundestag voluntarily to become Lord Mayor of Leverkusen .

Life

Küchler went to high school in Freiburg, where he graduated from high school in 1965. He then studied political science at the universities in Berlin and Freiburg, after four years he graduated as a political scientist.

From 1970 to 1973 he was personal advisor to the then Mayor of Leverkusen, Wilhelm Dopatka . From 1973 to 1985 he was director of the Leverkusen adult education center . In 1985 he moved to Cologne, where he became director of the Cologne Adult Education Center . After its conversion into an office for further education, he became its head in 1991. Until 1998 he held this position with the city of Cologne. His term of office is characterized by the partial decentralization of the adult education center and the conversion of its administration to IT-supported operational processes. Because of his election to the Bundestag, he had to give up his work with the city of Cologne.

politics

Küchler joined the SPD in 1969 and became chairman of the party in Leverkusen in 1993. A year later he became a member of the city council and in the federal election in 1998 he was directly elected to the German Bundestag in the constituency of Leverkusen - Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis II . There he was a full member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. He was a deputy member of the Petitions Committee. In the 2002 elections he was indeed reelected (now in the constituency Leverkusen - Cologne IV ), but resigned on 15 October 2004 voluntarily, since he assumed the office of the mayor of Leverkusen. Martina Eickhoff moved in as her successor in the German Bundestag . In the local elections in 2009 , Küchler stood as a candidate for the SPD and the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party. With a share of 39.0% of the votes, however, he was defeated by the candidate from the CDU and FDP, Reinhard Alfred Buchhorn, who received 39.9% of the votes and replaced Küchler as Lord Mayor on October 21, 2009. He continued to exercise his mandate in the Leverkusen City Council until 2014. He did not run again in 2014.

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  1. ^ Stalemate in the council after the local elections
predecessor Office successor
Paul Hebbel Lord Mayor of Leverkusen
2004–2009 		Reinhard Buchhorn
personal data
SURNAME Küchler, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau