Jürgen Bigalke

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Jürgen Bigalke (born 1942 ) is a German SPD politician who was mayor of Falkensee from May 1990 to October 2007 . From 2008 to May 2014 he was a member of the Havelland district council. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Bigalke played a major role in the positive development of Falkensee, which borders directly on the Berlin district of Spandau . He campaigned heavily both for the settlement of companies and the expansion of the infrastructure , especially for the construction and renovation of roads, as well as for the promotion of residential construction in the village.

biography

education

Jürgen Bigalke grew up in Falkensee and attended high school there. Then he studied civil engineering .

Employment

During the GDR era , Bigalke was a member of the SED and from 1982-1987 city planning director in his hometown. In this function, he opposed some of the resolutions of the responsible SED district leadership in Nauen and finally resigned from his office “for health reasons”. In November 1989 in Falkensee he experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall and the resulting numerous changes in politics and society at first hand.

Politicians in Falkensee

Jürgen Bigalke soon resigned from the SED and became a member of the SPD. The party put him up as a candidate for the city ​​administration of his hometown, which was newly formed after the fall of the Wall . After his election he became mayor . Bigalke described the initial mood in 2009 as follows: “We sat together in the town hall all night long, including on weekends . The will to change something for the better together dominated. […] I wish that a little more of this spirit would continue today. ”Bigalke also initiated the publication of regular printed information: the official gazette for the city of Falkensee, which first appeared in 1990 and is distributed free of charge to all households.

On the day of German unity , October 3, 1994, Jürgen Bigalke unveiled a memorial plaque together with the then Mayor of Spandau , Sigurd Hauff . It bears the inscription "In memory of the separation until 1989" and is attached to a boulder designed by the Spandau master stonemason Karlheinz Schafhausen , which was placed on Falkenseer Chaussee, on the southern outskirts of Falkensee.

Bigalke won the new mayor election in 2001 with around 54 percent of the votes cast out of 27,429 eligible voters. Together with the Alternative Alliance and the FDP , he has now formed a coalition in order to be able to work together even better for the interests of his city. Bigalke saw an important task in securing land transfers in his community and identifying development areas for residential and commercial areas. In addition, there was the implementation of infrastructural measures such as the laying and connection of central water and sewage pipes, the construction of schools , the establishment of a high school and the opening of daycare centers . Bigalke supported the citizens' initiative, which campaigned for the reopening of the S-Bahn line from Spandau to Falkensee. However, the project has not yet been realized (as of January 2019).

The party coalition in Falkensee broke, than that in the 2004 election, CDU with the Greens by a Zählgemeinschaft came to the city administration.

By virtue of his office, Jürgen Bigalke was a member of the management of the municipal claims compensation facility .

During his tenure in Falkensee, Bigalke launched the mayor's motorcycle tour, which has been taking place regularly and with great participation ever since. This is a longer round tour of the mayors on their motorcycles through the federal state of Brandenburg, the route of which is adjusted every year and therefore has different lengths. In 2014 it led over 215 km from Falkensee via Nauen , Friesack , Havelberg , Rathenow , Mögelin , Brandenburg , Ketzin , Elstal and Dallgow-Döberitz back to Falkensee. The number of participants has been between 80 and 250 so far. In 2017, the 216 motorcycles drove through the districts of Havelland , Oberhavel and Ostprignitz-Ruppin over a distance of 240 km.

Politician in the state of Brandenburg until 2014

After the end of the 2008 electoral term, Jürgen Bigalke did not run for the municipal council election again, but instead stood up for the Havelland district council and received around 70 percent of the vote as a representative of his constituency. The MPs appointed him chairman of the district assembly, which had its seat in Rathenow . During his term of office, so-called “ Stasi reviews” took place by members of the Left . Bigalke worked in the district assembly for an electoral term until May 2014, when the MPs passed him into retirement. At the beginning of the 2010s, the MPs established contacts with the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district and organized mutual cultural exchanges, including exhibitions.

In addition to his full-time activity, Jürgen Bigalke was also a member of the supervisory board of Havelland-Kliniken until 2014 and was able to make a significant contribution to the 2003 merger between the Nauen and Rathenow clinics.

Jürgen Bigalke is a member of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund in the Nauen local association and is a board member there.

Private

Bigalke is married to the doctor Regina, who was also active in the Falkensee city council in the 2010s. The couple pursues hiking as a hobby; it has two daughters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Jana Einecke: We have always been inseparable Interview, on www.maz-online.de, May 19, 2014; accessed on January 25, 2019.
  2. Is social peace in the East at risk? Questions to Jürgen Bigalke, SPD mayor of Falkensee near Berlin . In: Neues Deutschland , September 26, 1990 (the entire contribution is chargeable). Retrieved January 26, 2019.
  3. Patrik Rachner: Turbulent, beautiful, crazy on www.moz.de; accessed on January 26, 2019.
  4. Names & Messages in MAZ , November 10, 2009, supplement Der Havelländer , p. 14. Accessed on January 26, 2019.
  5. ^ German division , accessed on January 26, 2019.
  6. Detailed results of the mayoral election in Falkensee 2001 , accessed on January 26, 2019.
  7. Anke Kaprol-Gebhardt: Give or Take: Two Decades of Retransfer Processes for Real Estate in the Process of German Reunification , Using the Example of the Berlin-Brandenburg Region , p. 279. be.bra Wissenschaft verlag, 2018, www.books.google.de; accessed on January 26, 2019.
  8. Jan Sternberg: Fat in the green bacon belt . in taz , August 3, 2004, accessed on January 26, 2019.
  9. Annual report of the KSA Land Brandenburg 1994.
  10. Stephan Achilles: There it goes. , on www.moz.de; accessed on January 26, 2019.
  11. Patrik Rachner: 2017 motorcycle tour with 250 bikers , on www.moz.de, September 11, 2017; accessed on January 26, 2019.
  12. ^ Stasi inspections in the district council - members from the left faction had contact , at www.cdu-havelland.de; accessed on January 26, 2019.
  13. Patrik Rachner: Jürgen Bigalke: Respect and Recognition on www.moz.de, April 30, 2014; accessed on January 26, 2019.
  14. The encounters are now also open in Rendsburg . Press release of the Havelland district council, October 2010. Accessed on January 26, 2019.
  15. Imprint of the ASB local association Nauen in Falkensee (as of 2016).