Gerd Gerber

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Gerd Gerber (born July 14, 1944 in Colmar ; † December 30, 2018 ) was a German legal scholar and non-party local politician. From 1992 to summer 2008 he was Lord Mayor of Weingarten .

Life

Gerd Gerber was born on July 14, 1944 as the son of the government director Martin Gerber (1914–1991) in Colmar in Alsace . He grew up in Ravensburg and Biberach . In Ravensburg he attended the elementary school am Mehlsack between 1948 and 1952 and then the Wieland high school in Biberach . After graduating from high school, he studied law and did a legal clerkship in Tübingen and Bonn from 1965 to 1970. Gerber passed the first state examination in Tübingen and the second in Stuttgart.

From 1974 he worked as a state civil servant: stations were as a consultant in the building department of the Tübingen regional council , as a lecturer for "administrative and state law" at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Stuttgart , as a senior councilor in the addiction department of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Social Affairs and in the district offices of the district Tübingen and the Zollernalb district . From 1988 to 1992 he was the first state official in the Ravensburg District Office and thus deputy to the then District Administrator Guntram Blaser .

Coming from there, the non-party candidate ran for the office of Lord Mayor of Weingarten in 1992. He was able to assert himself against Siegfried Abt, then mayor of Herbertingen (1968-2000), and Guido Wolf , who came from Weingarten , later district administrator in the district of Tuttlingen (2003-2011), and in 1992 succeeded Rolf Gerich , who was no longer running , on. He was re-elected in 2000 without serious opposition. After the end of his second term on August 16, 2008, he decided not to run again. According to the municipal code, he should have been at the head of the city for a maximum of half a term (up to the age of 68). Markus Ewald was chosen as his successor .

After his tenure, Gerber was a lecturer for “Local and State Politics” at the Weingarten University of Education . In addition, he was chairman of the Studentenwerk Weiße Rose eV in Weingarten and a member of the Rotary Club Ravensburg-Weingarten .

Gerber died of a long and serious illness on December 30, 2018.

Honor

On January 11th, 2009 Gerber received the honorary citizenship of the city of Weingarten. On June 4, 2011 he was awarded the title “ Chevalier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite ” for his efforts to promote Franco-German friendship.

He was an honorary member of several associations and institutions:

  • Weingarten Blood Friday Community
  • Weingarten University of Education
  • Skatclub Blumenau from Weingarten

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weingarten mourns Mayor Gerd Gerber. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Weingarten's former mayor Gerd Gerber becomes an honorary citizen . In: Südkurier . January 9, 2009.
  3. ↑ Daniela Transiskus: Accolade: Ex-OB Gerber becomes a Chevalier . In: Schwäbische Zeitung . January 19, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Gerber, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician, Lord Mayor of Weingarten
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Colmar
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2018
Place of death Vineyard