Sabine Danicke

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Sabine Danicke

Sabine Danicke (born September 25, 1954 in Schneeberg (Ore Mountains) ) is a non-party German politician . From 2008 she was the elected mayor of the Hanseatic city of Salzwedel . From 2011 to 2015 she was mayor as a result of a regional reform .

Life

Sabine Danicke is a trained laboratory assistant , married and the mother of two adult children. She has lived in Salzwedel since 1979. From 1983 to 2003 she worked in research and development at the Salzwedeler candle factory (SAKEFA) and was honorary chairman of the works council . In this capacity, she also fought to keep the factory after the fall of the Wall. During the Peaceful Revolution , she was a co-founder of a group at the New Forum in Salzwedel. She later joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany and was a member of the city council from 1994 to 2008.

Since 1997 she has been a member of the trade union IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie . After her time at SAKEFA, she retrained in a branch of food technology , where she also got a forklift license. After further retraining as a commercial clerk , she worked for eight years for the educational institution Arbeit und Leben , an institution for political youth and adult education, which is supported equally by the German Trade Union Federation ( DGB ), its member unions and the adult education centers. During this time she was also chairwoman of the general works council for Magdeburg , Halle (Saale) and Leipzig . On May 20, 2015, Sabine Danicke was awarded the Hans Böckler Medal of the German Federation of Trade Unions in Erfurt for her many years of trade union work.

Before taking office as mayor, she was honorary chairwoman of the German Trade Union Confederation in Altmarkkreis Salzwedel for ten years . In addition, she was an honorary judge at the Finance Court of Saxony-Anhalt . Danicke is a founding member of the association "Together - Network for Democracy and Cosmopolitanism in Saxony-Anhalt eV", which takes care of victims of right-wing violence and provides education against racism and right-wing extremism .

She has been a member of the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel district council since the local elections in March 2014. There she belongs to the Green / Free List group. On February 22, 2015, Sabine Danicke stood for re-election as Lord Mayor.

Mayoral election 2008

Sabine Danicke (right) at the Hansefest Wesel, 2013
Sabine Danicke laying stones on the newly designed town hall tower square in Salzwedel

In the mayoral election in 2008 Danicke competed against the SPD candidate. Since she was a member of the SPD, she was expelled from the party. Their exclusion from the party resulted in a wave of exit from the Salzwedel SPD, in which the former minister of culture of Saxony-Anhalt , Karl-Heinz Reck , also left the party.

On March 8, 2008, Sabine Danicke was elected mayor of Salzwedel in a runoff election.

Candidates Main election on February 24, 2008 Runoff election on March 8, 2008
Sabine Danicke 30.7% 60.7%
Jost Fischer ( CDU ) 20.0%
Gabriele Gruner ( The Left ) 11.6%
Norbert Hundt ( SPD ) 8.3%
Ines Schaefer 3.0%
Siegfried Schneider 26.4% 39.3%

She became mayor on July 11, 2008. Due to the incorporation of Steinitz and Wieblitz-Eversdorf on January 1, 2011, the population of Salzwedel rose to over 25,000 for a short time, so that Sabine Danicke was now mayor.

As mayor, she followed up on the Hanseatic tradition of Salzwedel. She was a founding member of the Hanse Economic Association , an international network for business and science that ties in with the traditions of the old Hanseatic League . In addition, as a representative of 19 Hanseatic cities from Brandenburg , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia , she was one of five German city representatives a member of the commission of the Hanseatic League of the Modern Era of a multilateral community partnership, which, in addition to promoting trade, also aims to promote tourism Has. There she was also a member of the economics working group.

In the German Association of Cities she worked in the Committee for Economy and the European Internal Market .

She worked to improve the city's budget. She sees the repurchase and design of the town hall tower square in the center of the city as a great success.

Mayoral election 2015

On September 24, 2014, Sabine Danicke announced that she was running for another term. In the election she was supported by Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , Die Linke , the FDP and the electoral associations Salzwedeler Bürgerbund and Die Hanseaten . In the first ballot, Sabine Danicke received the most votes of all applicants with 37.9 percent. In the runoff election on March 8, 2015, she ran against Sabine Blümel , who ran as a candidate for the Salzwedel-Land voter group , but was also supported in the runoff election by the CDU, the SPD and the voters' association Freie Liste Für Salzwedel .

In the runoff election she received three votes less than Sabine Blümel . Her term of office therefore ended on July 10, 2015. Sabine Blümel has filed a lawsuit with the Magdeburg Administrative Court against the decision of the City Council to repeat the runoff election in August 2015 in the Pretzier constituency and for the postal vote. Until the decision of the administrative court, the head of the legal department and deputy mayor Andreas Vogel was provisional mayor of the Hanseatic city of Salzwedel. The 9th Chamber of the Magdeburg Administrative Court, chaired by administrative judge Uwe Haack, decided on December 15, 2015 that the mayoral election was valid and that Sabine Blümel had won the runoff election with just one vote on March 8, 2015. After a year of administrative disputes, the new mayor of Salzwedel, Sabine Blümel, was sworn in by the city council on March 16, 2016 and took up office one day later.

Candidates Main election on February 22, 2015 Runoff election on March 8, 2015
Sabine Danicke 37.9% 49.98%
Peter Fernitz ( CDU ) 15.9%
Sabine Blümel (Salzwedel Land) 22.8% 50.02%
Katrin Pfannenschmidt ( SPD ) 21.8%
Jennifer Zeidler ( Pirates ) 1.7%

Web links

Commons : Sabine Danicke  - Collection of Images

Official website of Sabine Danicke

Individual evidence

  1. Curriculum vitae on www.sabinedanicke.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 30, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sabinedanicke.de  
  2. According to reports in the Salzwedeler Volksstimme , No. 119 of May 27, 2015, p. 15 and in the Altmark-Zeitung , vol. 26, No. 119 of May 27, 2015, p. 2.
  3. ^ Ratsinformationssystem des Altmarkkreis Salzwedel In: website of the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel. Retrieved December 10, 2014.
  4. Sabine Danicke runs again for election. In: Volksstimme , September 25, 2014. Accessed December 10, 2014.
  5. Results of the mayoral election 2008 In: Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt, July 11, 2008. Accessed December 10, 2014.
  6. New era in the Salzwedeler Rathaus In: altmark-rundschau.de, July 11, 2008. Retrieved on December 10, 2014.
  7. ^ New title for Danicke In: Altmark-Zeitung , December 4, 2010. Accessed December 10, 2014.
  8. ^ A feeling of home at Hanseaten In: Altmark-Zeitung, June 3, 2014. Accessed December 10, 2014.
  9. Members of the commission of the city union DIE HANSE. Accessed on December 12, 2014.
  10. ^ Taking the city ​​out of consolidation In: Altmark-Zeitung, January 17, 2012. Accessed December 10, 2014.
  11. Danicke: KTM sneaked yes from the city council. In: Altmark-Zeitung, December 13, 2008.
  12. Salzwedeler Rathausturmplatz: “The beginning is made” In: Volksstimme, April 27, 2011. Accessed December 10, 2014.
  13. Result of mayoral election 2015 - main election February 22, 2015 ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 23, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wahl.salzwedel.de
  14. ^ "Salzwedel: runoff vote is valid" Volksstimme from December 15, 2015
  15. "Court ruling: Sabine Blümel becomes the new mayor" ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Sunday News of December 19, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sonntagsnachrichten.de
  16. Sabine Blümel was appointed mayor of the Hanseatic city of Salzwedel by the Salzwedel city council. salzwedel.de from March 16, 2016