Wolfgang Pantförder

Wolfgang Pantförder (* 13. January 1950 in Recklinghausen ) is a CDU - politician and was from 1999 to 2014 full-time mayor of the city of Recklinghausen.

Pantförder county government was in 1964 in Recklinghausen worked and studied from 1971 to 1974 business administration at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Muenster and 1974-1976 Law and Education at the Ruhr University in Bochum , before 1979, the state examination for the teaching of vocational Schools dropped. Subsequently he was a teacher at the college Kuniberg Recklinghausen. Pantförder is married and has two sons.

In 1970 he joined the CDU and in 1975 became a member of the Recklinghausen City Council, which he remained until 1999. In 1989 he became chairman of the CDU city council group and a member of the association assembly of the Ruhr area municipal association.

In 1999 he ran for the office of mayor of his hometown in the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia and achieved the required majority in the first ballot on September 12th. On October 1, he took office as the successor to Peter Borggraefe (SPD). In the 2004 and 2009 local elections, Pantförder was confirmed in office with a result of 55.9% and 52.4% respectively. On November 29, 2013, Pantförder announced that it would no longer run for mayor in 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayors have to decide ( memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), wdr.de, from November 29, 2013.