Gerti Potter

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Gerti Töpfer (2014)

Gerti Töpfer (born June 30, 1953 in Elbingerode (Harz) ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From 2003 to the end of May 2014, she was Lord Mayor of the large district town of Riesa in the Saxon district of Meißen .

Life and work

Töpfer grew up in Elbingerode (Harz) . After graduating from high school in Wernigerode in 1972 , she studied at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In 1976 she moved to Riesa and was a sports and biology teacher. At the then extended high school “Max Planck” she also exercised the function of a class leader for the Abitur level (grades 11-12) in the 1980s. From 1992 she was the headmistress of the Manfred-von-Ardenne-Gymnasium Riesa for ten years (since 2002 it has been incorporated into the Städtische Gymnasium Riesa ). From 2002 until she took office as Lord Mayor in October 2003, she was head of department at the regional school authority in Leipzig.

politics

Potter joined their first choice for mayor in July 2003 as a non-party candidate of the CDU at the CDU, she joined a few days with after the election. She was re-elected in August 2010. Gerti Töpfer announced in April 2014 that she wanted to retire at the end of May for health reasons. Building mayor Tilo Lindner held the office until the new election.

Since August 2008, she has been explaining local political projects and decisions at least once a month in her video podcast on the city of Riesa website .

In Riesa, Töpfer is particularly active in the fight against right-wing extremism . She was one of the first signatories of the so-called "Riesa Appeal", a local action plan for democracy , tolerance and against xenophobia sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth . In the spring of 2010, she suggested that Mannheimer Strasse, where the NPD publishing house Deutsche Voice is located, be renamed Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse . The city council approved the proposal. On the occasion of the renaming, which is being accompanied by various research projects, Töpfer explained that the initiative was "not a political one-off", but that the associated "positioning of the city of Riesa" against the right "should make it very clear."

In May 2014, Töpfer resigned from her position for health reasons. She suffers from a chronic disease of the spine .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mayoral elections 2003 in the Free State of Saxony Official website Statistical State Office of the Free State of Saxony
  2. ↑ Gerti Töpfer resigns in: Lausitzer Rundschau from May 3, 2014. Accessed June 17, 2015
  3. ↑ Städtisches Gymnasium Riesa , website www.treffpunkt-riesa.de
  4. ↑ Chronicle of the city of Riesa (PDF; 115 kB)
  5. ↑ Will the Riesa OB election be a women's duel? , in: Sächsische Zeitung of October 20, 2009, accessed on July 5, 2010
  6. ↑ Gerti Töpfer wins the mayor election in Riesa in: Sächsische Zeitung from 23 August 2010
  7. ^ Declaration by Mayor Gerti Töpfer dated April 30, 2014. Large district town of Riesa , April 30, 2014, accessed on April 30, 2014 .
  8. ↑ veb: Riesa's mayor resigned. In: Saxon newspaper. April 30, 2014, accessed April 30, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Jens Ostrowski and Britta Veltzke: "When I was able to sleep again, I knew that it was right." In: Sächsische Zeitung. May 2, 2014, accessed May 5, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Lord Mayor Gerti Töpfer presents the new website of the city of Riesa Podcast from August 4, 2008 on www.riesa.de
  11. ↑ Lord Mayor Gerti Töpfer on the Rostocker Straße industrial park Podcast from September 1, 2008
  12. ↑ First signatory of the “Riesa Appeal” ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2010 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. Official website of LAP Riesa-Großenhain @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lap-rg.de
  13. ↑ City of Riesa declares war on NPD in: Süddeutsche Zeitung from June 28, 2010
  14. ^ Anti-fascist address for neo-Nazis in Focus from June 24, 2010
  15. ↑ Renaming heralds projects - Mannheimer Straße becomes Geschwister-Scholl-Straße  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Wochenkurier from June 29, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.wochenkurier.info  
personal data
SURNAME Potter, Gerti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), former Lord Mayor of Riesa
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Elbingerode (Harz)