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Norbert Schüler (born November 28, 1944 in Drais , today in Mainz ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After attending elementary and secondary school, Norbert Schüler completed an apprenticeship as a radio and television technician in Mainz from 1961 to 1964. After successfully completing this, he worked in his profession in 1964 until he served in the German Armed Forces in 1965 as part of compulsory military service then committed himself as a regular soldier until 1966. In connection with the German Armed Forces, he entered the reserve officer career and is now a colonel in the reserve. After completing his military service, he attended the technical high school in order to then complete his studies at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Education as part of the second educational path. In 1971 he took up his post as a teacher at the Goetheschule in Mainz Neustadtat which he was a member of the college until 1994. From 1972 he was additionally responsible as head of the AV media center in Mainz and was spokesman for the Rhineland-Palatinate heads of the media centers for ten years until 1994.

The student is married and has two children.

politics

Norbert Schüler began his political career in 1968 when he joined the Christian Democratic Union; he first became chairman of the Junge Union in his hometown Mainz-Drais (which was not yet incorporated at the time) , before becoming deputy chairman of the CDU there. In contrast to a large part of the population, he spoke out in favor of the planned incorporation of Drais into the state capital Mainz. From 1978 to 1980 he was district chairman of the Junge Union Mainz. From December 1976, he was also the mayor of Mainz-Drais, a position he held until March 30, 1995. The following projects can be traced back to his work as mayor: the preparation of the development plans D8, D21 and D25, the construction of a new sports facility with a hall by relocating and selling the old area. The construction of a new fire station , the maintenance and later expansion of the elementary school, the renovation of the village square, and the introduction of the "single-origin collection of recyclable materials" (dual system) as a nationwide model project.

In 1979 Norbert Schüler was elected to the Mainz city council, where he was deputy chairman of the CDU city council from 1984 to 1993. His main focus was initially as a youth policy spokesman, then as a cultural and school policy spokesman for the city council group. From 1992 to 2004 he was chairman of the CDU district association in Mainz. In 1994 he accepted a mandate as a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament , which he held until 1995. On March 31, 1995, he was elected mayor to succeed Herbert Heidel and was responsible for planning, building and sports. In 1996 he ran for the office of mayor of the city and lost in the runoff election against the SPD candidate Jens Beutel . In 2003 he was confirmed in his office as mayor for a further eight years and took over the areas of traffic and urban redevelopment in the course of 2004 when the departments in the city council were restructured. After he agreed to plan further personnel savings as a pioneer for the other departments as part of a reorganization, from 2007 the monument protection area was also part of his departments.

Mayor Schüler turned 65 on November 28, 2009 and therefore resigned from his office. Lord Mayor Jens Beutel presented him with the ring of honor of the city of Mainz as a farewell. On February 10, 2010, the city council elected Marianne Grosse as his successor as head of department of the state capital Mainz for building, monument preservation and culture. This also includes urban planning, which is not reflected in the department name. The area of ​​traffic was transferred to the alderman Wolfgang Reichel , the responsibility for sport to Mayor Günter Beck .

Honors

As special awards, Norbert Schüler received the Gutenberg bust in 1995 and the Jupiter Column of the City of Mainz in 2004, the Konrad Adenauer Medal of the CDU in 2002 and the Ring of Honor of the City of Mainz in 2009 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State capital Mainz (ed.): Together we are Mainz - 50 years of incorporation of Drais, Ebershei, Finthen, Hechtsheim, Laubenheim and Marienborn , Mainz 2019, p. 37
2. ↑ Together we are Mainz, p. 38
3. ↑ Article Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz ( Memento from February 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Mainz Mayor Norbert Schüler says goodbye to the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Architects