Maria Unger

Maria Unger (born October 31, 1952 in Trier ; born Maria Heinzkill ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1994 to 2015 she was mayor of the North Rhine-Westphalian district town of Gütersloh .

Life

Maria Unger grew up in Dudeldorf- Ordorf in the southern Eifel . After attending the local elementary school , the commercial school in Bitburg followed . In Mannheim she met her future husband as an employee of the Deutsche Bundesbahn and moved with him to Gütersloh in 1977.

She joined the SPD in 1982. In 1991 she became a competent citizen in the City Council of Gütersloh.

In the election of the German Federal President in 2009 for the election of Horst Köhler , she was a state delegate for the SPD .

Unger is married and has two grown children.

The town hall of Gütersloh

Mayoress

From 1994 to 1999 Unger was the successor to Karl Ernst Strothmann ( CDU ) honorary mayor in Gütersloh and chairwoman of the city's main and finance committee. In the first election for full-time mayor on September 12, 1999, she won the election with 54.9 percent of the votes cast. On September 26, 2004 she was re-elected with 51.0 percent of the valid votes, and in 2009 with 42.8 percent of the valid votes.

In the Council of European Municipalities and Regions she was a deputy member of the Presidium and a member of the Main Committee. In the German Association of Cities and Towns she was a member of the main committee (her deputy there is the former mayor of Erftstadt Franz-Georg Rips ) as well as a member of the committee for education, sport and culture. In the North Rhine-Westphalia Association of Towns and Municipalities she was a member of the Presidium as chairman of the working group of the Detmold administrative district until 2014 , where she is also a member of the Mittelstadt working group.

She is also, among others, a trustee of the Protestant Stiftisches school Gütersloh , the airport Gütersloh Member of the advisory board and shareholders 'meeting, in the jury for the Christian Heyden Prize , was board member of the Hospital Gütersloh , chairman of the shareholders' meeting of Gütersloh municipal library , Chairman of Stadtwerke Gütersloh and Member of the Board of Trustees of the Woldemar Winkler Foundation .

At the beginning of October 2013, Unger announced that she would like to fully utilize her six-year term until October 20, 2015, but would not run again. Henning Schulz ( CDU ) was elected as his successor in the mayor's office .

In December 2014 Unger was named Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services to German-British relations . In February 2015 Maria Unger was accepted as an honorary member of the Spexard volunteer fire brigade . In March 2015 she received honorary citizenship of the Gütersloh twin town Broxtowe for her long-term commitment to the town twinning .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From Ordorf via Bitburg to Westphalia Article by Gabriela Böhm in the daily Trierischer Volksfreund from July 21, 2005
2. ↑ One, don't split. Article in the daily newspaper Neue Westfälische by Anette Isringhausen on June 6, 2009.
3. ↑ Maria Unger's profile on the 2009 local elections from August 16, 2009 in the Neue Westfälische daily newspaper (no longer online).
4. ^ Election result of the mayoral election in Gütersloh 1999 on wahlresults.nrw.de
5. ↑ Election results of the mayoral election in Gütersloh 2004 on wahlresults.nrw.de
6. ↑ Election results of the mayoral election in Gütersloh 2009 on wahlresults.nrw.de
7. ↑ The members of the main committee of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. As of January 5, 2016 
8. ↑ The members of the Committee for Education, Sport and Culture of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , As of March 2015 
9. ↑ The members of the AG Detmold in the Association of Cities and Municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ The members of the Presidium of the Association of Cities and Municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia , election period 2009 to 2014 ( PDF )
11. ^ The members of the Mittelstadt working group of the Association of Cities and Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia , as of August 31, 2011
12. ↑ Maria Unger's involvement in offices, functions and secondary activities ( memento of the original dated November 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the city of Gütersloh. 
13. ↑ Maria Unger announces withdrawal . Article by Eike Horstmann from October 3, 2013 in the Neue Westfälische
14. ↑ Award of the Queen for Maria Unger's services to German-British relations  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release on the website of the city of Gütersloh from December 12, 2014  
15. ↑ Timetable of the Spexard fire brigade