Rita Röhrl

Rita Röhrl (born Rita Huber ; born October 9, 1953 in Teisnach , Regen district ) is a German politician ( SPD ). Since December 1, 2017 she has been the district administrator for the Regen district. From 1990 to 2017 she was the mayor of the market town of Teisnach.

Life

Röhrl is a trained bookseller. She is the district chairwoman of the horticultural association in the Regen district.

In 2003 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Röhrl is divorced and has a daughter.

Political offices

In 1978 Rita Röhrl moved into the district council of the Regen district for the first time. From 1982 to 1986 and since 1990 Röhrl has been a member of the Lower Bavaria District Assembly . She has been a member of the Teisnach Market Council since 1984. In the local elections in 1990, she ran for the office of mayor of Teisnach and was able to prevail against the incumbent Ottmar Schober ( CSU ) with 54 percent . In 1994 she ran for the office of District Administrator of the Regen district, but had to admit defeat to her opponent Heinz Wölfl (CSU). After she prevailed against her opponents in the local elections in 1996 and 2002, she was re-elected as the only candidate in 2008 and 2014. Röhrl is also the chairwoman of the SPD sub-district committee in Regen. In interviews, she initially stated that as the longest-serving female mayor in Bavaria she no longer wanted to run in the 2020 election.

On March 27, 2017, after the retirement of the incumbent District Administrator Michael Adam (SPD), she announced that she would run for the district election in Regen on September 24, 2017. In the first ballot on September 24, 2017, she received 46.9% of the votes, Stefan Ebner (CSU) received 38.8%, Johann Müller (AfD) 8.3% and Jens Schlüter (Greens) 6.0%. In the runoff election on October 8, 2017, Röhrl was elected as the new district administrator for the Regen district with 54.1% of the valid votes and a voter turnout of 56.2%.

Political activity

Under Röhrl's mayor, the market town of Teisnach developed well economically. In particular, the market town is the location of the largest employer in the district, Rohde & Schwarz .

Her greatest political success is the establishment of the Teisnach Technology Campus in 2009, a research campus of the Deggendorf University of Technology . Other companies such as the electric car sharing company E-Wald settled around this.

Röhrl is considered a great critic of the trial run on the Gotteszell – Viechtach railway line . Among other things, she complained about the longer travel time and the change on the way to school. In addition, she criticized the negative consequences for the heavily used Teisnacher Bahnhofsstraße due to the railway line running through the town. This criticism resulted in a district-wide referendum that she initiated. Despite the rejection by the residents, the referendum was positive overall, with voter turnout below the quorum. After a referendum, the railway line was reactivated for a two-year trial on September 12, 2016. Röhrl continues to see its criticism confirmed by the company and advocates freedom of choice for schoolchildren through the introduction of a bus-train combination ticket. In addition, due to the high investment amount, it is now campaigning for the line to be operated continuously. For example, the Teisnach market built a footpath with a bridge to connect a breakpoint and supports the neighboring community of Geiersthal with the technical safeguarding of a level crossing at the community boundary.

At the side of District Administrator Michael Adam, she was the organizer of several anti-neo-Nazi demos in the region and positions herself as an opponent of right-wing extremist slogans. It also supports asylum seekers in their home community looking for accommodation through the so-called Teisnach model. Here, people are housed in private rented apartments instead of communal accommodation.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Viechtacher Bayerwald Bote: The last days in the familiar town hall. 15th November 2017.
2. ^ Daniel Ober: District administrator runoff election in Regen: Röhrl prevails against Ebner. PNP , October 8, 2017, accessed October 9, 2017 .