Horst Knechtel

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Horst Knechtel (born April 5, 1943 in Posen ) is a German local politician ( SPD ), mayor and headmaster .

education and profession

Knechtel completed an apprenticeship as a car mechanic. This was followed by almost ten years of training and further education with two comparable technical college courses in the field of public administration with a degree in administrative management. He completed an additional degree at the Administration and Business Academy in Mainz .

Knechtel worked for eleven years at the regional council in Darmstadt in various departments . For 20 years, he was the state school director and managing director of all seven Hessian administration seminars . He has been back in this position since 2003.

Knechtel was a member of the Darmstadt city parliament for more than three decades. He was a full-time member of the city council and from 1991 to 1993 chairman of the parliamentary group in Darmstadt. From 1994 to 1996 he was head of the city council. He was city ​​councilor and chairman of the main and finance committee, chairman of the establishment plan and legal committee, chairman of parliamentary groups, chairman of the city ​​council ( President of Parliament ) and mayor . From 1997 to 2003 Knechtel was mayor and green space and regulatory affairs officer of Darmstadt.

Among other things, Knechtel initiated the construction of the Herrngarten Café , the renovation of the family pool in Woog , the renovation of the rosarium in Rosenhöhe Park , the layout of the reading garden in the orangery and the renovation of the Rudolf Mueller layout .

From 1976 to 2012 he was chairman of the Gervinus SPD local association in Darmstadt. For decades he was a delegate to various party conferences of the SPD. In 1980 he initiated the “Woogs Festival”. In 1981 he organized an alternative border crossing. This event has been public since 1982.

Varia

Knechtel has been co-editor of the nationally distributed Deutsche Verwaltungspraxis (DVP) specialist journal for public administration by Maximilian Verlag for many years .

Private

Knechtel is married and lives in Darmstadt.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Horneff in: Darmstädter Echo, Thursday, April 5, 2018, p. 11.
  2. ^ Magistrate of the City of Darmstadt, 2015
  3. ↑ SPD Darmstadt honors Horst Knechtel with the Willy Brandt Medal , accessed on February 8, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Knechtel, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (SPD), mayor and school principal
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses