Hartwig Reimann

Hartwig Reimann (born September 18, 1938 in Riesenburg / West Prussia ) is a German local politician. He belongs to the SPD .

Life

After attending primary school in Lower Saxony and grammar school in Hamburg (Abitur 1957), he studied law and political science in Berlin , Hamburg and Erlangen .

After the first (1961) and second (1967) state examinations , Reimann was appointed finance assessor and councilor at the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance for three years . In 1970 he was elected Social Democratic Lord Mayor of Schwabach . He held this office for 38 years. Reimann himself says that he was an "embarrassing candidate" at the time, he himself was planning a career as a judge at the Federal Administrative Court . From 1986 to 1999 Reimann was a member of the Bavarian Senate .

So far, he has broken two records: when he took office, he was Germany's youngest mayor, and after Landshut mayor Josef Deimer left the country at the end of 2004, he was the longest serving mayor until 2008.

After he was no longer allowed to run for the mayor election in March 2008 because he had exceeded the maximum age limit, he resigned from his office as mayor of Schwabach in May 2008. In the city council election that took place at the same time, however, he was elected to the city council from last place (40) on the SPD list. In 2014 he was re-elected from last place on the city council. In 2018 he stepped down from the city council.

Reimann lives in Schwabach, has six children and five grandchildren.

Functions

Reimann was or is active as chairman / chairman of the supervisory board, deputy chairman or member of the following institutions:

• As Lord Mayor of Schwabach
  • Non-profit housing association mbH Schwabach (GeWoBau)
  • City hospital of the city of Schwabach GmbH
  • SC Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG
  • SC Verwaltungs-AG
  • Stadtwerke Schwabach GmbH
  • Stadtverkehr Schwabach GmbH
  • Stadtbäder Schwabach GmbH
  • Schwabacher Abfallwirtschafts GmbH
  • City structure company Schwabach mbH with Schwabach business start-up center "Schwung" GmbH
  • Various city council committees
• At the municipal level:
  • Deputy chairman of the association assembly and the administrative board of Sparkasse Mittelfranken-Süd
  • Board of the volunteer fire brigade city ​​of Schwabach
  • First chairman of the association for the Schwabacher Marionettenbühne
  • Deputy Chairman of the Schwabach Tourist Office
  • Advisory board in the Schwabach hospital development association
  • First chairman of the board of the association Die Region Nürnberg eV
• At state level:
  • Chairman of the Central Franconian Library Association
  • Chairman of the Bavarian Library Association (1977–2002)
  • Member of the board of the Bavarian Association of Cities (since 1980)
  • Chairman of the Environment Committee and the Central Franconian District Association of the Bavarian Association of Cities
  • Deputy member of the regional synod of the evang.-luth. Church in Bavaria
  • Member of the Bavarian Senate (1986–1999)
  • Chairman of the Social Democratic Community for Local Politics in Bavaria (1980–1999)

Awards

• Golden citizen medal of the city of Schwabach
• Honorary citizen of the city of Schwabach
• Honorary citizen of the city of Les Sables-d'Olonne
• Bavarian Order of Merit
• Municipal Medal of Merit of the Free State of Bavaria in gold
• Constitutional Medal of the Free State of Bavaria in silver
• Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
• 1983: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 2007: Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Gold

Web links

• Hartwig Reimann in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History