Oliver Junk

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Oliver Junk (2013)

Oliver Junk (born January 17, 1976 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He has been Lord Mayor of the Lower Saxony city ​​of Goslar since September 19, 2011 .

Life

Oliver Junk grew up in Wetter in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district . In 1995 he graduated from high school Philippinum in Marburg . After his military service, he studied law at the Philipps University of Marburg and the University of Bayreuth . In 2001 he passed his first state examination in law and in November 2003 his second state examination in law. In 2005 he also graduated as a business lawyer in Bayreuth and received his doctorate in 2005 on the subject of the principle of connectivity in the Bavarian constitution with a rigorosum2006. The dissertation was published in 2006 by PCO-Verlag in Bayreuth.

From 2003 to 2004 Junk worked as a freelancer at the Bayreuth construction company W. Markgraf . In 2004 he settled in Bayreuth as a lawyer specializing in commercial law , contract law , construction law , architectural law and aviation law . He was managing director of the Bindlach aviation company Fair Air until 2010. After retiring as managing director, he is still a partner with a share of 12.4 percent.

Oliver Junk is a member of the Bayreuth KV connection K.St.V. Andechs-Merania and was a member of the RCDS . In April 2015 Junk was elected President of the Harz Club to succeed Michael Ermrich .

He is married and has four daughters.

Political career

Goslar Town Hall (2011)

Oliver Junk was originally a member of the CDU and the Young Union in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district, but moved to the CSU in Bavaria when he was studying in 1997 . Even after his election as Lord Mayor of Goslar in 2011, Junk initially remained a member of the CSU. In June 2014 he became a member of the CDU in Lower Saxony and resigned from the CSU. There is a similar case in the spectrum of Christian parties in Würzburg : Christian Schuchardt (CDU) has been head of the town hall since 2014.

From 2001 to 2002 Oliver Junk was a research assistant to the European politician Joachim Wuermeling (CSU). From 2006 to September 2011 Junk was the head of the constituency office of the parliamentary director of the CSU regional group in the German Bundestag, Hartmut Koschyk . In 2005/06 he led the CSU federal constituency office in Bayreuth.

He was a member of the city council of the Upper Franconian city ​​of Bayreuth from 2002 to September 2011 as an honorary city councilor, from 2008 to September 2011 he was parliamentary group chairman of the parliamentary group of CSU and BT go! There he was a member of the elders, main and transport committees as well as a member of the supervisory boards of Bayreuth Energie- und Wasserversorgungs-GmbH (today: Stadtwerke Bayreuth Energie und Wasser GmbH), Bayreuth Verkehrs- und Bäder GmbH (today: Stadtwerke Bayreuth Verkehr und Bäder GmbH) and Stadtwerke Bayreuth Holding. In 2011 he was elected as CSU district chairman of Bayreuth City and into the CSU district committee. Between 1999 and 2013 Oliver Junk held various positions in the Junge Union and the CSU, including district chairman of the Junge Union Bayreuth Stadt, deputy district chairman of the Junge Union in Upper Franconia, and district chairman and district manager of the CSU Bayreuth Stadt. He was a member of the CSU district board of Upper Franconia between 2011 and 2013. In September 2014 Oliver Junk was elected to the state executive committee of the CDU in Lower Saxony.

After the mayor of Goslar Henning Binnewies ( SPD ) was voted out of office in April 2011, the position was vacant. Oliver Junk was nominated by the CDU Goslar as a candidate for the mayoral election on September 11, 2011 as part of the municipal elections in Lower Saxony in 2011 and won them with 45.06 percent of the vote and a turnout of 51.03 percent. A runoff election was not necessary according to the local constitution valid at the time. The electoral term was eight years. Due to the merger of the cities of Goslar and Vienenburg , which he significantly promoted, a new election of the Lord Mayor of the city of Goslar became necessary, which took place on September 22, 2013. The established parties in Goslar and Vienenburg decided not to nominate their own candidate. Junk clearly won the election with 93.7% of the vote. His only opponent Patrick Kallweit ( NPD ) reached 6.3 percent. The turnout was 64.2%. The term of office as Lord Mayor of the merged city began on January 1, 2014 and is eight years.

In 2013, he caused a sensation in Goslar by having the street lights switched off at night as a cost-saving measure. Due to protests, however, he was unable to establish this unusual step permanently.

In spring 2014, Oliver Junk sparked a controversial supraregional debate with his proposal to form a "greater Harz district" across the existing border between Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt . He criticizes the fact that mergers at community and district level in Lower Saxony only occur by chance and that the state government does not specify the size of communities and districts.

In a speech in November 2014, Junk called for a clear rethinking of refugee policy in order to perceive the newly arriving people as an opportunity and not as a burden. The speech gained nationwide notoriety and led to numerous publications at home and abroad, including in The Observer , The Times , taz.dietageszeitung , DIE ZEIT and the Welt am Sonntag . Junk suggested that intermunicipal agreements should be concluded, according to which the rural area could increasingly accommodate refugees in a decentralized manner and thus relieve large cities of the housing bottlenecks. According to Junks, this could improve integration and alleviate demographic problems in rural areas.

At the Lower Saxony Association of Cities , Oliver Junk is Deputy Mayor of Salzgitter , Frank Klingebiel, on the Presidium .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flying change at Fair Air. Article from August 3, 2010 in Nordbayerischer Kurier
  2. ↑ Profile on the website of the CSU district association Bayreuth-Stadt, accessed on September 11, 2011, www.csu-bayreuth.de/csu-bayreuth-stadt/kreisvorstand.php?id=7 , no longer online.
  3. ↑ Manuela Göbel: Würzburg: the only big city in Bavaria with CDU-OB Article from March 31, 2014 in the Main-Post
  4. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the website of the CSU / BT go! Group ( memento from August 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the City of Bayreuth
  5. ↑ outcome of the mayoral elections in 2011 in Goslar on goslar.de
  6. ↑ Prince of Darkness . Article by Juan Moreno from June 17, 2013 in the news magazine Der Spiegel
personal data
SURNAME Junk, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), Lord Mayor of Goslar
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main