Hans Steindl

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Hans Steindl (born September 2, 1949 in Burghausen ) is a German local politician and was first mayor of the city of Burghausen from 1990 to 2020 . Since 1972 he has been a member of the district council in the Altötting district , since 1994 as parliamentary group leader of the SPD .

Career

Hans Steindl grew up in Burghausen, made 1969 its Abitur at Aventinus Gymnasium Burghausen and subsequently completed 18 months of basic military service in the mountain troops in Traunstein . In the early 1970s he studied sports and history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and political science at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut of the university. After his legal clerkship in Nuremberg and Rosenheim , among others , he returned to Burghausen in 1978. There he taught sport, social studies and history as a senior teacher at the Aventinus grammar school until 1990 . Steindl has been married since 1979 and has two sons.

Political career

Steindl was elected to the Burghausen City Council and the District Council of the Altötting district at the age of 22. In the years before that, he appeared as a so-called “red rebel” in addition to his diverse community involvement as one of the main initiators of the Burghausen leisure home , one of the oldest self-governing youth centers in Germany that still exists today.

After years of local political work and an unsuccessful candidacy in 1984, Steindl was narrowly elected First Mayor of Burghausen in a runoff election on April 1, 1990. In the three following local elections in 1996, 2002 and 2008 he was confirmed in his office and was able to continuously expand his share of the vote. From 2008 to 2014, he and the SPD had an absolute majority in Burghausen's city council.

In his reign, among others, the creation of urban falling housing association BUWOG 1992, the establishment of the Athanor Academy for Performing Arts in 1995, the construction of a community center in 2000, the Bavarian State Garden Show 2004 and the joint national exhibition of the Free State of Bavaria and the province of Upper Austria 2012. Worth mentioning are further the traffic calming of the historic old town, the expansion of local public transport , the creation of new residential and commercial areas in the new town and an active cultural policy .

In March 2014, Steindl ran again for first mayor, but stated that this would be his last candidacy for mayor's office; one more time he will not run again. Steindl was re-elected with 84% of the vote and confirmed in office. In the 2020 election , Florian Schneider (SPD) was elected as his successor as Mayor of Burghausen.

In 2014 Steindl campaigned for the preservation of the Burghausen district hospital and for a public petition to preserve it. In March 2015, citizens of the Altötting district who were eligible to vote voted in a referendum for the preservation of the Burghausen Clinic; this was especially seen as a success for Steindl's policy.

Steindl became known nationwide not least through the granting of Christmas allowances on a voluntary basis ("Christmas bonus") for unemployment benefit II recipients at the end of 2005 and as an enthusiastic supporter of the football department of SV Wacker Burghausen , of which he was president from 2009 to December 2011.

Hans Steindl has been Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Munich since 2016 . In doing so, the university honored his exceptional services in setting up the new academy center in the historic Raitenhaslach monastery . The city of Burghausen thus became a permanent academy location of the Technical University of Munich.

He received the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver for 2019.

literature

  • Johann Dorner, Ulla Kendlinger: Hans Steindl. In: From Ziegelmeister to Steindl. Burghausen's mayor and citizenship through the ages. Burghausen City Archives, 2000, pp. 181–186.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steindl's farewell interview: "I wouldn't do that anymore". April 15, 2020, accessed May 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The King of Burghausen. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 5, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ Steindl is running for the last time. In: Passauer Neue Presse . February 28, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ Steindl (SPD) confirmed in office with 84 percent. In: Passauer Neue Presse. March 16, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
  5. ↑ Steindl: "Don't know what the city will look like in five years". April 14, 2020, accessed April 27, 2020 .
  6. ^ Burghausen District Clinic: Citizens should decide about the future. ( Memento from July 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . November 15, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
  7. ↑ Liveticker: Citizens vote to keep the Burghausen Clinic. In: Burghauser Anzeiger . March 15, 2015. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
  8. ↑ Christmas bonus for the unemployed. In: Stern. December 7, 2007.
  9. ↑ Steindl explains his resignation. In: Burghauser Anzeiger. December 12, 2011.
  10. ↑ Trouble with Bommer later. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. December 12, 2011.
  11. ^ SV Farce Burghausen. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. December 13, 2011.
  12. ↑ Appointment: Bavarian State Parliament honors 43 personalities with the Constitutional Medal 2019 | Bavarian State Parliament. Retrieved February 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Steindl, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steindl, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Burghausen