Felix Schwenke

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Felix Schwenke

Felix Schwenke (born May 27, 1979 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German local politician ( SPD ). He has been Lord Mayor of Offenbach am Main since January 21, 2018 .

Youth, training and professional career

Felix Schwenke was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1979, but has lived in Offenbach am Main since his birth. Growing up in the Bieber district , he graduated from the Albert Schweitzer School in 1998 . After his community service he studied French and social studies from 1999 to 2004 for the teaching post at grammar schools at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and graduated with the state examination.

As a scholarship holder of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , he was awarded a doctorate in political science under the title The idea of ​​"souveraineté nationale" in the discussion on the EU constitutional treaty before the 2005 referendum in France at Goethe University in 2010. phil. PhD .

After completing his teaching post and the second state examination, he taught politics, economics and French at the Rudolf Koch School in Offenbach from 2011 to 2012 . After that he switched full-time into politics.

In 2017, Schwenke was a consultant at Ernst & Young Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, after he lost his full-time position in the magistrate after the local elections in 2016 .

Political stations

Schwenke was chairman of the Jusos Offenbach from 1998 to 2006 . Since March 2010 he has been chairman of the Offenbach SPD sub-district.

From 2001 to 2012 he was a member of the city ​​council in Offenbach, and from 2004 to 2010 he was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.

Schwenke was a full-time city ​​councilor from 2012 to 2016 with responsibility for work, social affairs, education, integration, security, order and the citizens' office. In addition, from 2014 he was also responsible for the finance department and the treasury and tax office. With the changed balance of power in the city parliament after the local elections in 2016 , he was recalled prematurely by the new coalition of CDU, Greens, FDP and FWG and lost his position as a full-time city councilor.

From December 2016 he was an honorary city councilor for the municipal department IV with various areas of responsibility, in particular sport and culture.

In the direct election for Mayor of the City of Offenbach am Main on September 10, 2017, Felix Schwenke ran against seven other applicants. He got 43.3 percent of the votes in the first ballot in the ballot , which he on 24 September 2017, 67 percent against Peter Freier ( CDU won). The turnout was 30.6 percent in the first ballot and 43 percent in the runoff election. Schwenke is the successor to Horst Schneider , whose term of office ended on January 20, 2018.

Miscellaneous and private

From 2012 to 2016 Schwenke was chairman of the supervisory board of Seniorenzentrum Offenbach GmbH. In addition, he was a member of the finance committee of the German Association of Cities from March to July 2016 .

Schwenke has been married since 2013 and has two children. He lives with his family in the Offenbach residential area An den Eichen .

Publications

  • The idea of ​​"souveraineté nationale" in the discussion of the EU constitutional treaty before the 2005 referendum in France. Lit Verlag , Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10597-4

Web links

Commons : Felix Schwenke  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b OB candidate Offenbach: Felix Schwenke (SPD). In: hessenschau.de. September 5, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b Matthias Dahmer: Felix Schwenke: Team captain for Offenbach. In: op-online.de . January 21, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Stephan Wildhirt: SPD congratulates Dr. Felix Schwenke for a doctorate. In: spd-offenbach.de. March 4, 2010, accessed September 13, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Jörg Muthorst: City Councilor Felix Schwenke: Young political talent. In: fr.de . September 1, 2012, accessed September 13, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b Martin Kuhn: The way is free for the magistrate of four. In: op-online.de. May 14, 2016, accessed June 10, 2016 .
  6. ^ SPD subdistrict Offenbach am Main. In: spd-offenbach.de. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b c d Biography of Dr. Felix Schwenke. In: offenbach.de. December 9, 2016, accessed September 13, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b Electoral Office of the City of Offenbach am Main: OB election: Final result. In: offenbach.de. September 11, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Pan and suitors have to go to the runoff election. In: FAZ.net . September 11, 2017. Retrieved September 15, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Run- off election Mayor 2017. In: offenbach.de. Retrieved September 24, 2017, September 24, 2017.
  11. ^ Agnes Schönberger: Mayor in Offenbach: Schwenke should inherit Schneider. In: fr.de . October 21, 2016. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Steffen Müller: Swing father for the second time. In: Offenbach-Post , November 19, 2018, p. 9.
  13. ↑ Ingrid Aldehoff: Offenbach: Struggle for respect for Offenbach. In: fr.de. March 19, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Pan, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main , Germany