Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer

Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer (born August 22, 1960 in Münchberg ) is a German local politician ( SPD ) and has been Lord Mayor of Regensburg since May 1, 2020 . Since January 27, 2017, until she took office, she was provisionally responsible for the city administration as the representative of the temporarily suspended mayor Joachim Wolberg .

Life

Youth, training and professional career

Maltz-Schwarzfischer was born in Münchberg, Upper Franconia, in 1960. She spent her childhood in Selb until 1970 . She has lived in Regensburg since 1970, where she also completed her schooling at Von-Müller-Gymnasium. She then started studying prehistory and early history as well as classical archeology at the University of Regensburg , which she completed with a Magister Artium .

Professionally, she has been involved in various museum and monument preservation projects as well as archaeological excavation companies. She also worked as a freelance archaeologist.

Political career

Maltz-Schwarzfischer has been a member of the SPD since 1995. There she holds various party offices. In addition to her board position in the Regensburg local association inner west, she was sub-district chairman of the working group of social democratic women and acted as their deputy state chairwoman. She is a member of the district executive committee of the SPD Upper Palatinate.

After a few years she was elected to the Regensburg City Council, where she served as deputy parliamentary group leader and spokeswoman for the parliamentary group in the Social Committee. She was also a member of the planning committee, the school committee and the culture committee. She was a member of the administrative board of the Regensburg City Theater and the supervisory board of Regensburger Tourismus GmbH.

On May 8, 2014, Maltz-Schwarzfischer was elected second mayor of the city of Regensburg . The offices for social affairs, youth and family, senior citizens, the job center of the city of Regensburg and the Regensburg Seniorenstift gGmbH were subordinate to its board of directors .

Since January 27, 2017 she has led the Regensburg city administration on an interim basis in place of the Lord Mayor Joachim Wolbergs , who has been temporarily suspended from performing his duties. ^[1] In April 2017 she was also elected chairwoman of the supervisory board of REWAG .

In May 2019, the SPD city association unanimously nominated her as a candidate for the mayoral election in the 2020 local elections. In the first ballot on March 15, 2020, she received 22.15% of the validly cast votes. On March 29, 2020, the runoff election against Astrid Freudenstein (CSU, 29.48%) took place. In this runoff election, Maltz-Schwarzfischer received 50.74 percent of the valid votes and was thus elected mayor from May 1, 2020.

Private

She is married to a lawyer and has two children.

Maltz-Schwarzfischer volunteers at ProFamilia, where she was a member of the board, as Vice President of the Freier TuS Regensburg and as a member of numerous Regensburg associations, in particular culture, women and environmental protection associations.

Web links

• BR 24 from August 22, 2020: Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer celebrates her 60th birthday

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Regensburg - SPD - Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer MA Accessed on July 18, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Regensburg mayor in custody for serious corruption. January 18, 2017, accessed July 18, 2019 . 
3. ^ City of Regensburg - SPD - Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer MA Accessed on July 18, 2019 . 
4. ↑ SPD nominates Maltz-Schwarzfischer as OB candidate. May 8, 2019, accessed July 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Election of the Lord Mayor. City of Eegensburg, accessed on March 15, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Result of the runoff election. City of Regensburg, March 31, 2020, accessed on March 31, 2020 .