Ingo Lehmann (politician, 1971)

This article deals with the mayor of Kulmbach, Ingo Lehmann (* 1971). For the former Lord Mayor of Landsberg am Lech see Ingo Lehmann (Politiker, 1950) .

Ingo Lehmann, 2020

Ingo Lehmann (* 1971 ) is a German local politician of the SPD . He has been the sixth Lord Mayor of the city of Kulmbach since May 1, 2020 .

Career

Lehmann was in 2002 in the Kulmbacher City Council and in 2008 the council of the district Kulmbach selected. Lehmann has been chairman of the SPD Kulmbach since 2005. Until his election as mayor, he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Kulmbach city council and a research assistant for Inge Aures, member of the state parliament . In the city council, he was a member of the administrative committee, the urban development committee, the works committee, the construction-accompanying committee and the administrative board of local public transport. In the mayoral election in 2012, Lehmann was defeated by incumbent Henry Schramm (CSU) with 33.61% of the vote in the first ballot.

Mayor election 2020

OB election 2020
49.18%	50.82%
Schramm, CSU	Lehmann, SPD

In November 2019, Lehmann was nominated again as a candidate for mayor of the SPD. Incumbent Henry Schramm ran again as a candidate for the CSU , WGK and FDP . In the election campaign, Lehmann campaigned for affordable housing, the preservation of the old town, an improvement in local public transport and more citizen participation and transparency. The election campaign was overshadowed by several affairs: incumbent Henry Schramm was accused of being involved in dubious real estate deals of the municipal housing association, which led to several criminal charges against him, including from an SPD city council. His predecessor, the SPD district chairwoman Inge Aures, was accused of opaque award procedures in her office as AWO chairman. Finally, shortly before the runoff election for the mayor's office, shredded postal voting documents were seized on the premises of the city of Kulmbach, which is why the public prosecutor's office investigated several city employees on suspicion of election fraud. The proceedings were later dropped.

In the Mayor election on March 15, 2020, Ingo Lehmann received 35.46% of the vote. He was second behind incumbent Schramm with 45.54% and ahead of the candidates of the Greens (14.12%) and the AfD (4.88%). The Greens then voted for Lehmann as Lord Mayor. In the subsequent runoff election, Lehmann was able to prevail against the incumbent with 50.82% of the votes, which corresponds to a lead of only 251 votes. His term of office began on May 1, 2020, and was sworn in on May 7, 2020 at the constituent meeting of the city council.

Private

He grew up in Kulmbach and is married.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} OB candidate Ingo Lehmann on the campaign website
2. ↑ Matthias Meußgeyer leads SPD City Council Group - Frankenpost
3. ↑ ^{a b} Building a new theater has no priority for the new Kulmbacher OB - InFranken
4. ^ Ingo Lehmann - SPD Kulmbach
5. ^ Result of the mayoral election 2012 - City of Kulmbach
6. ↑ Now it's official: Ingo Lehmann (SPD) challenges Henry Schramm - InFranken
7. ↑ Henry Schramm runs again in the Kulmbach mayor election - InFranken
8. ↑ Objectives of the campaign
9. ↑ Another complaint against the mayor of Kulmbach Henry Schramm - SZ
10. ↑ SPD MP Aures contradicts allegations - SZ
11. ↑ Investigations into election fraud in Kulmbach discontinued - SZ
12. ↑ outcome of the mayoral elections - OkVote
13. ↑ Greens are in favor of Lehmann - Frankenpost
14. ^ Result of the mayor's runoff election - OkVote
15. ↑ New Lord Mayor Ingo Lehmann sworn in - BR