South German mayor's constitution
As Süddeutsche mayor Constitution (now South German council constitution ) is the in the 19th century in the Kingdom of Bavaria , the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Kingdom of Württemberg resulting municipal constitutional system referred. The main organs are the municipal council and the directly elected mayor , who is given a very strong position. Since German reunification, it has become the most common of four types of municipal constitutional systems and has been in effect in Bavaria , Baden-Württemberg , since 1994 in Saxony , Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt , as well as in North Rhine-Westphalia , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland since 1994 and since 1996 in Lower Saxony .
In the basic form, the mayor or lord mayor , who is directly elected by the population, chairs the community or city council and is both the head of the community administration and the highest service authority of the community's civil servants. He is also the highest representative of the community . Opposite to it is the municipality or city council, which is also elected by the citizens of the municipality and which in turn forms advisory and decision-making committees. As a rule, these are managed by the mayor himself; however, he can also be represented.
Classically, the mayor is the chairman of the council and head of administration at the same time. If this is not the case, one speaks of a dualistic mayor's constitution due to the dual leadership : The municipal councils in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein elect a chairman from their own ranks as well as councilors who manage the administration under the mayor elected by the people. In Thuringia, the municipal council is free to choose a chairman from its own ranks (then this chairperson and not the mayor, as is normal, of the council).
literature
- Hans-Georg Wehling : Different constitutional models: South German council constitution . In: Federal Center for Political Education (Ed.): Information on political education . No. 242 , 2006 ( bpb.de [accessed July 4, 2008]).
- Alfons Gern: Saxon local law . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich, 2000, ISBN 3-406-45501-8 , p. 18.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Municipal Council - Kommunalwahl-BW.de. Retrieved October 21, 2017 .