Reinhard Korte

Reinhard Korte (* 16th July 1948 in Barkhausen ) is a German local politician of the CDU .

From 1999 to 2004 Reinhard Korte was mayor of the East Westphalian city ​​of Minden .

Life and work

Reinhard Korte was a teacher at the Freiherr von Vincke - Realschule in Minden until he took office as mayor. After leaving the office of mayor, he worked as an entrepreneur in Minden, organizing trade fairs and exhibitions.

Political party

Reinhard Korte has been a member of the CDU since 1987 and was temporarily chairman of the CDU city association of Minden. In November 2009 he was re-elected chairman of the Minden CDU after a battle vote in the city association, but resigned from the office a few weeks later after there was an election challenge.

politics

From October 1989 until his election as full-time mayor of the city of Minden in 1999, Reinhard Korte was a member of the Minden City Council for the CDU and held leading offices in his parliamentary group.

Public offices

From October 20, 1989 to October 1, 1999, Reinhard Korte was deputy mayor of the city of Minden and from 1999 to October 13, 2004 was its first full-time mayor. He was directly elected to this office in September 1999 by the citizens with 58.7% of the vote. In the local elections in 2004, he did not run again and resigned from office.

predecessor	Office	successor
Siegfried Fleissner	Mayor of Minden 1999 - 2004	Michael Buhre