Josef Monatzeder

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Josef "Hep" Monatzeder (2010)

Josef "Hep" Monatzeder (born August 5, 1951 in Siegenburg ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and was third mayor of Munich from 1996 to 2014 . He has been a member of the Bavarian State Parliament since 2018 . Monatzeder is a member of the Committee on Federal and European Affairs and Regional Relations.

Life

Monateder is a social worker and political scientist . He has lived in Munich since 1968 and has two grown children. Before his political career, Hep Monatzeder was the general manager of the social institutions in the Munich-Johanneskirchen school center .

From 1990 to 2018 Monatzeder was a member of the Munich City Council for The Greens . On May 2, 1996, he was elected Third Mayor; he held this office until 2014.

For the mayor elections on March 3, 2002 and March 2, 2008 he stood as a candidate for his party and received 2.7 and 3.4 percent of the vote, respectively. Monatzeder lost to his challenger Sabine Nallinger in the membership decision of the Munich Greens on the candidacy for the mayor in 2014. In the city council meeting on May 21, 2014, the SPD politician Christine Strobl was elected as his successor as Third Mayor.

In 2007, Monatzeder brought the international Velo City Conference to Munich. Thereafter, the Munich city council decided on a separate traffic development plan for cycling and the cycling capital campaign. In 2013, at Monatzeder's suggestion, Munich hosted the Walk21 international pedestrian conference. The conference results will flow u. a. in the redesign of public spaces in Munich.

On April 1, 2013, he succeeded Dieter Schneider as president of TSV 1860 Munich, after having been a member of the club's supervisory board for several years. After he was not confirmed at the delegates' meeting of the association on April 25th, he resigned to Gerhard Mayrhofer in July.

He is a fan of TSV 1860 Munich , dancer, diver and drummer in a band. Among other things, he campaigned for Munich's town twinning with Harare , which came about in April 1996.

See also

Web links

Commons : Josef Monatzeder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. About me , at www.hepmonatzeder.de, accessed on April 5, 2013
  2. ^ Muenchen.de: City council elects Manuel Pretzl as Munich's 2nd mayor. November 27, 2018, accessed March 13, 2019 .
  3. Sabine Nallinger is candidate for the mayor of the Munich Greens ( Memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Josef Schmid and Christine Strobl elected mayors , muenchen.de: May 21, 2014, accessed on May 21, 2014