List of mayors of the city of Wurzen

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This list gives an overview of the mayors of Wurz , who have been either mayors , lords or mayors since 1832, depending on the municipal legal form . - The current mayor of the city of Wurzen is Jörg Röglin , who is not party to the party .

1832-1899

With the town order in Saxony of 1832, the position of the council regarding citizenship and the possibilities of the citizens to influence the composition of the council changed. From now on, the members of a city council were elected by all male citizens who had the right to vote (model: Prussian magistrate constitution, as developed by Freiherr vom Stein for the purpose of local self-government). The mayor is the head of administration, needs the vote of the city council and the confirmation by the district authority (district directorate). The city council is chaired by the city council chief. These regulations essentially remain in force until 1918.

The district directorate ordered that mayors were no longer allowed to have legal practices.

1899-1945

  • 1899–1924 Friedrich Seetzen (from Leipzig) (national-conservative electoral association; since 1919 DNVP)

The Saxon municipal code of August 1, 1923 essentially continued the old municipal constitution and enabled the city to spin off from the district association, the administrative capital of Grimma, from April 1, 1924 as a district-free city with a lord mayor - from 1927 with a first mayor . From now on, the mayors or mayors were determined exclusively according to the party-political majority in the city council. For the first time since 1919, all men and women had the right to vote and stand for election for the municipal council.

After the National Socialists came to power, all previous democratic regulations for local government and citizen participation were abolished. From January 1, 1934, but basically with the “German Municipal Code” of 1935, National Socialist principles also applied in the municipalities, for example “centralism” or the “leader principle”, according to which a “community leader” (mayor) without election except for To be “appointed” for 12 years and to be able to make all decisions alone without the involvement of a democratically elected council. According to National Socialist ideas, “experienced and deserving citizens” could be “put at the side of the mayor with their advice” (“appointed councilors”).

  • 1933 Becker (NSDAP), mayor
  • 1933 (from July 1) - 1938 Martin Seyfert (NSDAP), First Mayor
  • 1938–1942 Kurt Wendt (NSDAP), Mayor (fallen January 27, 1942)
  • 1939–1945 Armin Graebert (NSDAP), Lord Mayor

1945–1990

After the American occupation of Wurzens, the local commanders took over the remaining city administration as the executive authority (April 24 to May 4, 1945).

After the city was taken over by the Red Army, the old administration was almost completely replaced by "anti-fascists" or unencumbered people. It worked without a constitutional basis according to the legislative instructions of the Soviet headquarters.

  • 1945 May – July Otto Schunke , appointed acting mayor
  • 1945–1946 Georg Boock (KPD), Lord Mayor; Otto Schunke (KPD), Mayor
  • 1946–1947 Max Bühl (SED), Lord Mayor; Bruno Lau (SED), Mayor

Although the re-established KPD made its first attempts at democratic centralism and the council principle as early as 1945, after the local elections in September 1946, the municipal regulations largely followed the democratic traditions of the Weimar Republic (municipal constitution). But even the "parity" in the composition of the council and the city council, which was invoked from the beginning on a unified list, was in practice a controlled one with the aim of asserting a leading role for the SED as well as "democratic centralism" after the administrative reform of In 1952 (abolition of the federal states, new districts and counties) nothing stood in the way. After the old Grimma district was restituted by the Soviet military authorities in October 1945, Wurzen also lost its status as an independent town. After the municipal elections in September 1946, there was no longer a mayor in Wurzen from 1947. The “City Council” remains the official name for the city administration until 1990.

Since 1990

On May 6, 1990, democratic local elections were held again for the first time since 1932.
Of the parties that competed in local elections in Wurzen, the CDU emerged as the strongest force. It formed the strongest parliamentary group in the city council and provided the new mayor. The municipal regulations adopted from the GDR were replaced by provisional municipal regulations based on Baden-Württemberg.

In accordance with the municipal code of the resurrected Free State of Saxony of April 21, 1993, the mayor, elected for seven years and directly elected by the citizens, united both the office of head of the city administration and the chairman of the city council (previously head of the city council). The new municipal code is very much based on that of Baden-Württemberg (southern German council constitution) and removes the personal separation of legislative and executive branches in the office of mayor, which existed since 1832 (until 1933) and was formally maintained between 1946 and 1990 and from 1990 until 1990 1994 as a guarantee of the separation of powers was continued. From the five-year legislature beginning in the summer of 1994, the city council's assembly (comparable to the lustrum practiced since Roman antiquity) is called the “city council”.

  • 1994–2001 Anton Pausch (CDU), mayor or lord mayor. As of April 1, 1997 Wurzen was granted the status of a major district town, and thus the mayor of the city bears the title of "Lord Mayor", the technical assistant according to the city council resolution of May 28, 1997 the title of "Mayor".

The councilor, elected with a narrow majority on December 5, 2001, was voted out again by the city council on February 27, 2002: he had not yet assumed office after his election and in the meantime stood for another office in Baden-Württemberg, without the city To inform Wurzen about it. On June 5, 2002, Gerald Lehne from Dehnitz was elected mayor (mayor) (by drawing lots).

  • since 2008 Jörg Röglin (since August 2017: SPD, previously independent), Lord Mayor

Before 1832

The city leaders known by name between 1347 and 1830 are listed in the overview "Historical List of Mayors and Councilors of the City of Wurzen" , which Wolfgang Ebert created in 2011.

literature

  • Hansrainer Baum and Jürgen Schmidt: From Schmidt to Schmidt - About Wurzener Mayor 1832 - 2008 . Wurzen 2011, without ISBN

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ P. 14 - 16 in: Hansrainer Baum and Jürgen Schmidt: From Schmidt to Schmidt - About Wurzener Mayor 1832-2008 . Wurzen 2011
  2. ↑ Wurzener OBM Röglin joins the SPD . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . No. 197 , August 24, 2017, p. 5 .
  3. ↑ P. 9 - 13 in: Hansrainer Baum and Jürgen Schmidt: From Schmidt to Schmidt - About Wurzener Mayor 1832 - 2008 . Wurzen 2011, without ISBN