Georg Rosenthal (politician)

Georg Rosenthal, 2014

Georg Rosenthal (born December 27, 1946 in Duisburg ) is a German politician . From 2013 to 2018 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament ( SPD ). From 2008 to 2013 he was Lord Mayor of Würzburg . From 1983 to 1995 and from 2003 to 2015 he was the first chairman of the Würzburger FV soccer club and has been its honorary chairman since 2015.

Career

After graduating from high school and completing military service, Rosenthal began studying business administration, law and sociology at the University of Würzburg , which he completed with a degree in business administration. He continued his education with a second degree in psychology.

Rosenthal was already politically active during his studies. He was a student representative in the Senate of the University of Würzburg and its faculty. Here he replaced the RCDS as the strongest university group at the University of Würzburg.

He then took on a teaching position at the vocational training center of the DGB and then worked as a lecturer for economic and social policy at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . After a professional stay in Indonesia, where he headed a project to promote the economic development of small and medium-sized enterprises, he took over the management of the Frankenwarte Academy in Würzburg in February 2001 .

On January 1, 1974, Rosenthal joined the SPD . In the following years he held various party functions in his district association, including seven years as deputy party chairman of the sub-district of Würzburg Stadt und Land and Kitzingen. He is currently a board member of the SPD city association of Würzburg.

For the local elections in March 2008 he was nominated by his party as a candidate for the office of mayor and prevailed in the runoff election against the incumbent Pia Beckmann ( election result: see Würzburg ). He took office on May 1, 2008. As Lord Mayor, he campaigned for the Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences to settle on Sanderheinrichsleitenweg, which the residents of Würzburg approved in a referendum. During his time as mayor, the city bought the conversion area Leighton Barracks from the federal government. Würzburg applied with the area for the State Garden Show 2018, which was accepted on February 9, 2010. In large-scale urban development projects, Rosenthal relied on broad public participation in the form of so-called “citizens' workshops”.

In the 2013 state elections , he was elected from seventh place on the list to second behind Volkmar halib, and thus entered the Bavarian state parliament via the list in the Lower Franconian constituency. With the constituent session of the state parliament, Rosenthal's office as Lord Mayor was suspended.

For the SPD , Rosenthal sits on the Committee for Science and Art and in this function spoke more often on the subject of looted art, especially the Schwabing art find .

Rosenthal is also the spokesman for the Lower Franconian SPD members of the state parliament. In December 2016, the SPD parliamentary group elected him as European policy spokesman. Since then, Rosenthal has also been Deputy Chairman of the European Committee of the Bavarian State Parliament.

In February 2017 Georg Rosenthal was awarded the Georg von Vollmar Medal , the highest distinction of the Bavarian SPD , for his commitment to the interests of the citizens of Bavaria and Würzburg. The laudatory speech was given by the SPD parliamentary group leader Markus Rinderspacher .

On October 23, 2017, Georg Rosenthal was again nominated as an SPD candidate for the constituency of Würzburg in the Bavarian state elections in 2018 . After the state election in 2018, he lost his seat in the state parliament.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Würzburg football club - history. Retrieved November 18, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Michaela Thiel: Interview with Georg Rosenthal in the alumni newsletter 02/08. August 28, 2016, archived from the original ; accessed on November 18, 2017 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} person - Georg Rosenthal. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 16, 2017 ; accessed on November 18, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Andreas Jungbauer: Georg Rosenthal: From the town hall to the state parliament? In: Main Post. July 28, 2013. Retrieved November 18, 2017 . 
5. ^ Richard Wust: New building of the technical college: "No question of arbitrariness". In: Main Post. May 28, 2008. Retrieved November 18, 2017 . 
6. ^ University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt / History. In: WürzburgWiki. Retrieved November 18, 2017 . 
7. ^ Robert Emmerich: State Horticultural Show comes to Würzburg. University of Würzburg, February 8, 2010, accessed on November 18, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Framework planning Hubland. In: wuerzburg-hubland.de. Retrieved November 18, 2017 . 
9. ^ Andreas Jungbauer: Rosenthal in the state parliament, Friedl not - Adolf Bauer represents mayor. In: Main Post. September 17, 2013, accessed November 18, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Bavaria sold Nazi-looted art to families of former Nazi leaders süddeutsche.de, October 12, 2016, accessed on November 16, 2017
11. ↑ Public prosecutors want to return Gurlitt's pictures welt.de, November 19, 2013, accessed on November 16, 2017
12. ↑ Page of the SPD parliamentary group in Bavaria ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ Press release from the SPD parliamentary group
14. ^ Message from the SPD sub-district of Würzburg
15. ↑ Patrick Wötzel: BayernSPD honors Georg Rosenthal. Mainpost, February 17, 2017, accessed February 17, 2017 . 
16. ^ The Würzburg SPD relies on Rosenthal and Schäfer-Blake. mainpost.de, October 24, 2017, accessed on November 16, 2017