Patrick Burghardt
Patrick Burghardt (born December 1, 1980 in Rüsselsheim ) is a German politician ( CDU ). From January 31, 2009 to December 31, 2011, he was a member of the Hessian state parliament , from 2012 to 2017 Lord Mayor of the city of Rüsselsheim am Main (until 2015: Rüsselsheim ) and has been deputy chairman of the Hessian CDU since 2014 . Since January 2019 he has been State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry for Digital Strategy and Development . Before that, he had been State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art since January 1, 2018 .
Life
Burghardt finished high school at the Prälat-Diehl-Schule in Groß-Gerau in 2001 and then trained as a forwarding agent until 2004. He then worked in an international moving company in Kelsterbach , most recently as head of the sales department. Burghardt lives with his wife Stefanie in the Rüsselsheim district of Königstädten . You have a daughter.
politics
Burghardt joined the CDU in 1996, a year earlier he had already joined the Junge Union. From 1998 until his departure in 2009 he was a member of the board of the CDU in Mörfelden-Walldorf. He has also been a member of the CDU district executive in the Groß-Gerau district since 2000. Since 2006 he has been deputy district chairman of the CDU Groß-Gerau. From 2005 to 2007 he was deputy chairman of the CDU in Mörfelden-Walldorf, from 2007 to 2009 chairman of the association. After moving to Rüsselsheim in 2009, he was elected chairman of the CDU there. He held this office until after his election as Lord Mayor. He then did not run again as a candidate for the board.
In the Junge Union he held the office of district chairman in southern Hesse and assessor on the state board of the Hessian JU until mid-May 2009. At the state parliament on 30./31. May 2009 in Limburg an der Lahn , Burghardt was elected as deputy state chairman. He held this office until 2013.
In the CDU parliamentary group in Mörfelden-Walldorf, Burghardt was the social policy spokesman until his resignation due to the move. In the Hessian state elections in 2009, he was elected to the Hessian state parliament with 36.9% through a direct mandate from his party in the constituency of Groß-Gerau I. He is also a member of the Groß-Gerau district council.
In the runoff election on September 18, 2011, Burghardt was elected Lord Mayor of the city of Rüsselsheim with 50.4%. He took up this office on January 1, 2012, making him the youngest Lord Mayor of the State of Hesse. In the runoff election on October 8, 2017, he lost 49.3% to his challenger Udo Bausch . He had to give up the office of mayor at the end of 2017.
At the state party conference of the CDU Hessen on May 10, 2014 in Rotenburg an der Fulda , Burghardt was elected deputy chairman of the Hessian CDU . He was re-elected at the state party conferences on June 18, 2016 and June 16, 2018.
On November 7, 2017, Prime Minister Volker Bouffier and Minister of Science Boris Rhein announced that Patrick Burghardt would take over the post of State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art on January 1, 2018 as the successor to Ingmar Jung . When the Bouffier III cabinet was formed, Burghardt was appointed State Secretary of State Minister Kristina Sinemus in the newly founded Hessian Ministry for Digital Strategy and Development .
Web links
- inactive link to "MP's website"
- Presentation on the website of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art
- Patrick Burghardt on Facebook
Individual evidence
- ^ Echo Newspapers GmbH: Rüsselsheim has a new mayor: Udo Bausch wins the runoff election . ( echo-online.de [accessed on October 10, 2017]).
- ↑ New State Secretary in the state government: Patrick Burghardt succeeds Ingmar Jung | Information portal Hessen. Retrieved November 13, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burghardt, Patrick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st December 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ruesselsheim |