Martin Gerlach (politician)

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Martin Gerlach (2012)

Martin Gerlach (* 1965 in Wasseralfingen ) is a former non-party local politician . From 2005 to 2013 he was Lord Mayor of the large district town of Aalen , previously from 1994 to 2005 Mayor of the Baden-Württemberg community of Walheim am Neckar .

Life and work

Martin Gerlach grew up in today's Aalen district of Wasseralfingen as the second of three children of a Wasseralfingen city council member and later a local council member. After finishing school, he completed his initial training at the police school in Göppingen and then worked for six years in the police service in Göppingen, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart from 1984 to 1990 .

After obtaining his technical college entrance qualification , Gerlach began studying at the University of Public Administration and Finance in Ludwigsburg , which he graduated in 1994 with a degree in administrative management (FH) . He then took up a teaching position at the university.

Gerlach is married and has three children. After retiring from the office of Mayor of Aalen in 2013, he moved with his family to New Zealand to take a sabbatical .

politics

In 1994, while still a student, Gerlach ran for election to the mayor of Walheim am Neckar in the Ludwigsburg district . There he prevailed against eight opposing candidates in the first ballot. After his first term in office he was re-elected in 2002 with 97 percent of the votes cast.

In 2005 he ran for the mayoral election in his home town of Aalen , in which the previous incumbent Ulrich Pfeifle no longer ran. On July 10, 2005 Gerlach was elected the new mayor in the second ballot with 59.3 percent of the votes cast.

Since 2009, the non-party Gerlach belonged to the district assembly of the Ostalbkreis for the faction of free voters . There he was a member of the hospital committee.

In January 2013, Gerlach announced that he would not run for a second term in the mayoral election in summer 2013. In October 2013 Gerlach resigned his office to his elected successor Thilo Rentschler .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b A little sadness is already , schwaebische.de, September 13, 2013
  2. ↑ Rafael Binkowski: A moderator with assertiveness . In: Schwäbische Post , April 21, 2005
  3. ↑ Sylvia Möcklin: Citizens celebrate Gerlach's dream result . In: Aalener Nachrichten, July 11, 2005
  4. ↑ Gerlach clears the way for Aalen , schwaebische.de, January 13, 2013
  5. ↑ Thilo Rentschler is the new mayor , in Gmünder Tagespost on July 22, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Gerlach, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (non-party), Lord Mayor of Aalen
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Wasseralfingen