Manfred Görig

Manfred Görig (born November 26, 1959 in Alsfeld ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and district administrator of the Vogelsbergkreis as well as a former member of the Hessian state parliament .

education and profession

After completing secondary school, Manfred Görig did an apprenticeship as an electrical appliance mechanic from 1975 to 1977 . He then attended the advanced vocational school and passed the technical diploma in 1978. He then studied communications engineering at the Dieburg University of Applied Sciences and graduated in 1981 as a Dipl.-Ing. from. This was followed by military service from 1981 to 1983 .

Görig worked as a technical consultant at Deutsche Telekom until 1992 . He then became a test engineer at the Federal Office for Post and Telecommunications. In 1998 he was taken over by the regulatory authority / Federal Network Agency as a clerk for the service center for value-added service numbers in Fulda .

politics

Manfred Görig has been a member of the SPD since 1980 and was chairman of the SPD Romrod there from 1987 to 2001 and was district chairman in the Vogelsberg district from 2001 to 2012 .

As a city councilor he worked in the city of Romrod from 1985 to 2001 (from 1987 head of the city council) and first city ​​councilor from 2001 to 2006 and from 1997 as a district councilor of the Vogelsberg district until his election as district administrator.

In the state elections in Hesse in 2008 , he was elected directly to the Hessian state parliament as a constituency candidate in the Vogelsberg constituency. According to the CDU Vogelsbergkreis, Görig's father-in-law Horst Schopbach, then President of the Protestant Dean's Office in Alsfeld, caused a local scandal. He published an advertisement calling for Görig to be voted; Electing the CDU would be the "greatest possible brutal political depravity". In the early state elections in Hesse in 2009 , he lost his constituency, but entered the state parliament via the state list.

On November 6, 2011, Görig stood as a candidate for the SPD in the district election in the Vogelsberg district. Since none of the applicants could achieve an absolute majority in the first ballot, Görig ran in the runoff election against Rainer-Hans Vollmöller (CDU) on November 20, 2011 and prevailed with 53.7% of the votes. He was introduced to office on June 9, 2012.

social commitment

Görig was the initiator of the Vogelsberger Vulkan-Iron-Walk , a non-profit Nordic walking and hiking marathon that he organized until 2012. With Görig's departure from the chairmanship of the SPD Vogelsbergkreis, his successor also took on this task.

Web links

• Own homepage
• Page of the SPD Vogelsbergkreis