Michael Stocker

Michael Stöcker (born July 25, 1937 in Steinwiesen in Upper Franconia , Bavaria ; † April 9, 2013 in Rosenheim ) was a German local politician and Lord Mayor of Rosenheim.

Life

After the Abitur at grammar school in Ingolstadt Michael Stocker went to community service of his military service as a regular soldier three years for armed forces and was a naval officer . He completed his law studies at the LMU Munich , financed by a highly gifted scholarship , from which he also obtained his doctorate , and his preparatory service with honors . After a short period of service at a federal authority, he began his professional career at the end of 1968 as a public prosecutor and judge in Rosenheim.

In 1972 he was elected for the CSU city ​​council in Rosenheim and immediately second mayor. In 1977 he won the mayor's election and took office on September 22, 1977 as the successor to Mayor Albert Steinbeißer .

Even as second mayor, his main goals were to improve the quality of the city, preserve the monuments, as well as education, school and sports policy. The establishment of the pedestrian zone he had applied for in 1972 was only successful after several attempts in 1984. The same applies to the town hall, which opened in 1982 and was expanded as an event and congress center in the mid-1990s.

The incorporation of the previously independent communities of Aising , Pang and Westerndorf St. Peter , which took place in 1978 as part of the Bavarian regional reform, was one of his first major tasks. In the course of his tenure he improved the relationship with the district and the surrounding communities decisively, in the 1990s u. a. thanks to his initiative, the Rosenheim SUR urban area was founded. A town partnership was concluded with the Italian city of Lazise on Lake Garda .

With the help of federal and state urban development funding, Stöcker has advanced the urban redevelopment and improvement of the urban quality of the regional center Rosenheim. In addition to the pedestrian zone and the design of Max-Josef-Platz in 1984, in addition to numerous parking garages, the Lokschuppen exhibition center was created in 1988 and the Hofbräu complex was renovated in 1997 as part of the Old Town East program . Other priority concerns for him were the Happinger-Au-See leisure area, environmental protection with a new large sewage treatment plant in the north of the city and the expansion of the waste-to-energy plant with the flue gas cleaning system at the municipal utilities and the bicycle-friendly city model .

But also the economic boom of the city with z. B. new industrial areas such as Bauer in der Au, Schwaig, Sana- and Haslbergergelände at TÜV had high priority for him. Individual projects such as the redevelopment and expansion of Karstadt, the redevelopment of the listed art mill, the settlement of Weko after the first referendum in the city's history, the development of the inner-city Beilhack site and the rededication of the industrial Aicher site to the Aicherpark have influenced urban development. Important road construction projects fall during his time as Lord Mayor, such as the construction of the Brückenberg and the Panorama - Schwaig bypass. As part of a city marketing concept, he strengthened the profile of the city, especially as a wooden city, shopping and adventure city, center of information and communication technology, as well as culture, exhibition and congress city and business location. He made a decisive contribution to the establishment of efficient business networks, such as B. City Management Rosenheim e. V. and the Rosik e. V.

He created the facade prize, which is an important building block for beautifying the cityscape. The city itself led the way with good examples, such as: B. with the renovation of the monument Max-Josefs-Platz 4 with the wood technology museum. The preservation, renovation and expansion of the listed town hall are also examples. He also managed to expand urban development funding to include the Socially Integrative City program and to become a model of success in Bavaria.

During his tenure, he expanded the city administration and its operations into a service group as part of the mission statement of the city ​​of Rosenheim as a service company and founded numerous municipal companies and companies, including a. as the first company for the city the Stadthallengesellschaft, today's event and congress GmbH, in 1984 after a first unsuccessful attempt the GRWS and the conversion of the Stadtwerke into a GmbH & Co KG. In order to optimize the services for the citizens even further, the own operations clinic, construction depot and city drainage were created. The service company Stadt Rosenheim received numerous public awards, such as Bavarian innovative administration , business-friendly municipality , bicycle-friendly city and various architecture and city marketing prizes.

He also achieved numerous cultural figureheads, such as the construction of the adult education center and the city library, the youth center on Reichenbachstrasse and the expansion of the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences. An extensive school concept for the elementary and secondary schools as well as the three municipal high schools, a kindergarten construction program, a housing construction program, the renovation of the clinic and the funeral hall in the cemetery as well as the promotion of sports, etc. a. the construction of gyms and sports facilities on Pürstlingstrasse were also among Stöcker's priorities. Against very great hostility, in 1991 he prevented the construction of a new ice rink with a second ice rink, which might have overburdened the city financially due to the associated follow-up costs. He also succeeded in establishing the Heckscher Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

As part of the city's property reserve policy, the Hartlwiese could be exchanged at the end of the 1970s and the middle secondary school, the main fire station and the commercial vocational school and in the 1980s the Gaborhalle and a primary school built on the Flötzingerwiese acquired by the city. The storage area was so large that after his term of office the curative education center could also be built on it. The new tax office and the Emmy-Schuster-Haus, a residential complex for 60 disabled people, could be built on another inner-city area that the city had acquired.

The founding and a. of the Friends of Integrated Living on Schießstattstrasse Rosenheim e. V., the association pro Arbeit, its cultural and social foundation Dr. Michael Stöcker, of the Anne Oswald Foundation, his work as chairman of the board of trustees of the Emmy Schuster Holzammer Foundation and his work in numerous charitable institutions in the city. In October 2015 he was posthumously appointed honorary director of the Maria Bergmann Foundation. The social housing hotspots in the city such as the Kaiserbad and the Ruedorfferau - the latter was the basis for the company development Kettner and Krones - he was able to clean up and the apartments u. a. renovate in the Endorferau with the help of the GRWS and high government subsidies.

During his tenure, he set the decisive course for the 2010 State Garden Show in Rosenheim .

He was re-elected as Lord Mayor in 1983, 1989 and 1995 with a clear majority as CSU candidate Rosenheim-Stadt, of which he was district chairman for several years.

For many years he was chairman of the independent cities of the Bavarian Association of Cities in Upper Bavaria, deputy chairman of the planning region Southeast Upper Bavaria, member of the board of the VKU, member of the savings bank association and numerous other committees, associations and foundations.

His term of office as Lord Mayor ended after 25 years on April 30, 2002. On April 9, 2013 Michael Stöcker died unexpectedly at the age of 75.

Awards

In 1994 Stöcker received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , and in 1999 the Federal Cross of Merit , First Class. In 2001, he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit . Furthermore, at the end of his last term of office, he received the honorary title of former mayor and was made an honorary citizen of the city of Rosenheim.

Web links

• City Archive Rosenheim Research Dr. Michael Stocker
• City archive Rosenheim city history
• House of Bavarian History Contemporary Witnesses DVD
• ( http://www.kus-ro.de )