District President

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As district president in is Schleswig-Holstein of honorary chairman of the County Council designated, who is elected by the council from among its members.

history

Since the introduction of districts due to the Prussian annexation of Schleswig-Holstein in 1867 , the full-time district administrator was initially both head of the district administration and chairman of the district council. Under the rule of the National Socialists , power was further concentrated on the district administrator in order to establish the leader principle at the local level, in particular through the German municipal code of 1935 . After the end of World War II the reformed British military government , therefore, in the course of democratization and decentralization , the municipal law in their zone of occupation . Since she was critical of the German tradition of local government , she took British local law as a model and implemented the separation of politics and administration in the revised German municipal code in order to replace the leader principle with the "principle of joint responsibility". The office of the district administrator was divided into a voluntary political district administrator as chairman of the district council and a politically neutral full-time district director as head of administration. The Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament lifted the separation of politics and administration with a new district order in 1950. The position of the now political head of administration was renamed again to District Administrator. A new name had to be found for the head of the representative body , that of the district president.

General

The legal basis for the office of district president is the Schleswig-Holstein district regulations.

The election of the district president and his deputy takes place in the first meeting of the newly elected district council. Only members of the district council can be elected. (Section 28 (1)). A simple majority of the votes is required for the election . Each political group can demand that the political groups have the right to make nominations in the order of their maximum number . (Paragraph 2)

The tasks of the district president include convening and leading the meetings of the district council as well as representing the district together with the district administrator. (§ 10)

In addition to the compensation as a district council member, the district president can receive a monthly expense allowance of up to 1472 euros. ( Section 5 of the state ordinance on compensation in local honorary offices )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Claudia Maria Arndt: Implementation of the “leader principle” at district level. Retrieved April 10, 2020 .
  2. Anja Ingenbleek, Jürgen Meier bride: Unwanted duplication or guarantor of democratic local government? Brauweiler District for Regional and Contemporary History, accessed on April 10, 2020 .
  3. Jessica von Seggern: Old and New Democrats in Schleswig-Holstein: Democratization and the formation of a new political elite at district and state level 1945 to 1950 . Franz Steiner Verlag, September 20, 2005, p. 88 .
  4. German municipal code of 1946, preface
  5. ^ Hansjörg Riechert: The district administrations in the new federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved April 10, 2020 .