Marcus King
Marcus König (born October 11, 1980 in Nuremberg ) is a German local politician ( CSU ). He has been Lord Mayor of Nuremberg since May 1, 2020 . Before that, he had been chairman of the CSU parliamentary group in the Nuremberg city council since 2017 .
Life
König grew up in the Nuremberg district of St. Jobst - Erlenstegen . He attended the boys' boarding school at St. Paul am Dutzendteich , then the secondary school on Scharrerstrasse, then the business and technical college .
From 1999 to 2002 he trained as a bank clerk at Dresdner Bank in Nuremberg, where he then worked as a financial advisor and sales manager in the lending business. After the merger with Commerzbank AG , he was branch director for various Commerzbank branches from 2011 to 2017. From 2017 until he took office as Lord Mayor of Nuremberg, he was a department director at Commerzbank AG.
König has been married since 2015 and has one son.
politics
König joined the Junge Union in 1994 . He became district chairman of the student union , later he led the Junge Union Nürnberg. He has been active in the CSU since 1998 and became a member of the Nuremberg City Council in 2008 and his party's transport policy spokesman. Since 2017 he has been parliamentary group chairman and financial policy spokesman for his group. As a candidate for mayor, König achieved a share of 36.45% of the vote in the first round of elections in Nuremberg in 2020 . In the runoff election on March 29, 2020, he was elected the new Lord Mayor of Nuremberg with 52.20% of the vote. König took office on May 1st of the same year.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Nürnberger Nachrichten of March 30, 2020, p. 3
- ↑ Marcus König . Official website of the CSU city council group, accessed on January 29, 2020
- ↑ City council election in Nuremberg: Preliminary result is available . Nordbayern.de from March 19, 2020, accessed on March 20, 2020.
- ^ Nn: Nuremberg runoff election: Marcus König becomes the new mayor. In: nordbayern.de from March 29, 2020 - available online
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SURNAME | King, Marcus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician (CSU), Lord Mayor of Nuremberg |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1980 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |