Siegfried Fleissner

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Siegfried Fleissner (born June 16, 1943 in Reichenberg ; † April 13, 2013 in Minden ) was a German local politician of the SPD . From 1991 to 1999 he was mayor of the city of Minden ( Westphalia ).

Life and work

At the end of the Second World War , Siegfried Fleissner came as a refugee from what was then Reichenberg with his parents, first to Neesen and later to Minden. Fleissner graduated from the Besselgymnasium in Minden in 1963 and then studied to be a secondary school teacher at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1969 he passed his 1st state examination and successfully completed the subsequent legal clerkship in 1971 at the teachers' seminar in Bielefeld . From 1971 to 1975 he worked as a teacher at the Caroline von Humboldt Gymnasium in Minden. In 1975 he became a teacher of German and geography at the Weserkolleg and evening grammar school and in 1981 finally became director of studies.

Siegfried Fleissner was married and had four children. He was the brother-in-law of the former Federal Minister for Education and Research Edelgard Bulmahn (SPD).

politics

Siegfried Fleissner had been a member of the SPD since 1973 and first applied for a mandate in the Mindener Council in the local elections in 1976, but initially failed because of his opponent. In 1977 Fleissner finally moved from the SPD's reserve list to the council and remained its member until September 30, 1999. In the SPD council group he was able to assert himself very quickly and rose to leading offices. In 1979 he became chairman of the school committee and was also a member of the planning and environmental committee.

From 1984 until his election as mayor in 1991 he was chairman of the SPD council group. During the time when he was in charge of the city as mayor, the British Rhine Army withdrew from the city and the city of Minden became increasingly indebted.

Public offices

After the resignation of Mayor Heinz Röthemeier (SPD), Fleissner was elected mayor of the city of Minden by the city ​​council on October 9, 1991, after a campaign candidate within the SPD city association against the city councilor and later SPD parliamentary group chairman Reinhard Kreil . Siegfried Fleissner's term of office was marked on the one hand by the withdrawal of the Allied troops from Minden and the resulting problems with the use of the properties, as well as the increasing financial problems of the municipal budgets. He was a member of the supervisory board of Elektrizitätswerke Minden-Ravensberg and chairman of the supervisory board of the city-owned Mindener Versorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH. In his role as mayor, he was also chairman of the association assembly of the Sparkasse Minden-Lübbecke .

In his second term of office from 1994 onwards, Fleissner was confronted with two so-called political affairs , which on October 9, 1997 led to a motion to be voted out of the Minden City Council. The request for deselection failed because the SPD parliamentary group voted unanimously against the request and the necessary two-thirds majority was not achieved.

Before the local elections in 1999, Mayor Siegfried Fleissner had to face a member survey within the SPD City Association of Minden in order to be able to go into the first direct election of a mayor in Minden as a SPD candidate . His opponents were the chairwoman of the SPD local association Stemmer Susanne Fabry, the former city ​​director of the city of Minden Heinrich Sieling (SPD) and the later mayor of the city of Bückeburg Reiner Brombach (SPD). Fleissner was able to prevail in the vote against his opponent candidates.

The result of the local elections in 1999 brought a heavy defeat for the Minden SPD in the elections for the city ​​council and the direct mayoral election. Siegfried Fleissner was in the runoff with 41.3% compared to 58.7% of its competitor Reinhard Korte ( CDU not elected) to the post of full-time mayor of Minden. He then resigned on September 30, 1999 from all political offices.

Individual evidence

  1. Minden: Former Mayor Siegfried Fleissner has passed away. In: Mindener Tageblatt , April 16, 2013.
predecessor Office successor
Heinz Röthemeier Mayor of Minden
1991–1999
Reinhard Korte