Martin Horn (politician)

Martin Horn (2019)

Martin Werner Walter Horn (* 7. November 1984 as Martin Hoffmann in Annweiler am Trifels ) is a German non-party politicians . He has been Lord Mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau since 2018 .

Life

Martin Horn, b. Hoffmann, grew up in a parsonage in Hornbach as the son of a Protestant pastor together with three sisters. Since his youth he was involved in church youth work ; until 2009 as youth leader of the evangelical support association “Fire and Flame” of the Hornbach parish. Horn began studying international social work at the Evangelical University of Ludwigsburg in 2009 , which he completed with a bachelor's degree in 2013 . He then went on to study European and World Politics at the University of Bremen , which he completed with a master’s degree in 2014 . He completed studies abroad in Botswana , Jordan , Georgia , Russia and Ukraine . In 2014 Horn began working as a European and development coordinator in the main office of the city of Sindelfingen and as a freelance lecturer at the Evangelical University of Ludwigsburg.

Horn is married and has two sons. The family lived in Stuttgart until the move in 2018 .

Political career

In 2018, Horn ran for the office of Lord Mayor of Freiburg. The SPD and the Freiburg Lebenswert voter initiative supported him in the election campaign . During the election campaign, a possible connection between Horn and the evangelical-charismatic Free Church ICF and its involvement in Horn's campaign team was discussed in the media . Shortly before the election, Horn, at the invitation of an ICF preacher, attended two ICF Freiburg events. In a newspaper interview, Horn stated that he was neither a member of the ICF nor any other evangelical free church, but a member of the evangelical church.

With 34.7% in the first ballot on April 22, 2018, Horn received 3.4 percentage points more votes than the incumbent Lord Mayor Dieter Salomon ( Greens ).

Four candidates ran in the second ballot on May 6, 2018. Horn achieved most of the votes cast with 44.2%; a simple majority was enough to win the election. He told the Badische Zeitung that his 100-day program would focus on the housing situation and proximity to the citizen . At the election ceremony, a 54-year-old man attacked him and injured his face; the nasal bone was broken and a tooth was damaged. The perpetrator was caught on site, he is said to have psychological problems.

Due to the action for contesting the election of an opposing candidate who was not admitted to the election, Horn was initially unable to take up the office of Lord Mayor as planned on July 1, 2018. However, the local council appointed him as administrator ; so he was temporarily head of administration without voting rights in the municipal council. On March 5, 2019, the action to avoid the election was finally rejected by the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg . In March 2020, he campaigned for the admission of unaccompanied, minor children from Greek refugee camps.

Web links

Commons : Martin Horn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dossier on the mayor election in Freiburg , Badische Zeitung
• Mayor election Freiburg 2018: Martin Horn
• Own website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Badische Zeitung: INQUIRED: What do the "W" mean in Martin WW Horn? - Freiburg - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved February 24, 2019 . 
2. ↑ "It was called to my wife to rape" , the world December 18, 2018
3. ↑ Horn wins first ballot in Freiburg. Will a Hornbacher OB in Freiburg? , Palatinate Mercury, April 23, 2018.
4. ↑ Uwe Mauch: Martin Horn: "You need a thick skin and I have it". Badische Zeitung, June 28, 2019, accessed on July 1, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Annemarie Rösch: Martin Horn: “I'm not in any free church” , Badische Zeitung, April 29, 2018 ; see. Christian-charismatic preacher style coming soon from the top of Freiburg? , Radio Dreyeckland, April 27, 2018.
6. ↑ Lord Mayor Salomon is defeated in the first round of elections
7. ↑ Freiburg's green mayor Salomon voted out - Horn wins. schwaebische.de, May 6, 2018, accessed on May 6, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Interview Badische Zeitung from May 6, 2018
9. ↑ Joachim Röderer and Carolin Buchheim: Martin Horn is doing better after the attack at his election party , Badische Zeitung, May 7, 2018.
10. ↑ Freiburg's new mayor attacked at an election party
11. ↑ On the evening of the election, Martin Horn was close to victory and shock , Simone Lutz, Fabian Vögtle, Frank Zimmermann & Thomas Goebel, Badische Zeitung, May 6, 2018, accessed May 7, 2018
12. ↑ Uwe Mauch: Martin Horn will initially become administrative administrator due to a lawsuit. Badische Zeitung, June 13, 2018, accessed on June 30, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Uwe Mauch: Martin Horn is no longer an administrative officer after nine months. Badische Zeitung, March 6, 2019, accessed on March 7, 2019 . 
14. ^ Federal government: Mayor admission of minor refugees from Greece. In: spiegel.de. Der Spiegel, accessed March 6, 2020 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Dieter Salomon	Lord Mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau since 2018	-