Siegfried Schneider (Mayor)

Siegfried Schneider (born November 10, 1946 in Kuhlhausen ; † December 31, 2016 ) was a politician and mayor of Salzwedel .

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Siegfried Schneider was born in 1946 as the son of a farm laborer in Kuhlhausen in the Elb-Havel-Winkel and grew up with four siblings in a Catholic family. After attending the polytechnic high school from 1953 to 1963, he began a commercial apprenticeship at the rural trading cooperative (BHG) in Garz.

After completing his apprenticeship in February 1966, at the age of 20, he was employed as a chief accountant at BHG. In 1970 he became a member of the CDU .

In 1974 Schneider took over the local utility department (ÖVW) at the Salzwedel City Council . On the side, Schneider completed a distance learning course in "State and Law" from 1974 to 1979, with a successful degree as a political scientist.

On December 6, 1989, Walter Kott was recalled as mayor of Salzwedel at the city ​​council and replaced by Schneider. In May 1990 it chose the new city council for city manager . In 1994 Schneider was freely elected mayor. During his tenure, the focus was on the recovery of apartments through renovation and expansion, reconstruction measures in the streets of the city, the creation of additional parking spaces and traffic calming, and the boom in trade.

The end of his term of office was the organization of the 28th International Hanseatic Conference from June 5 to 8, 2008 in Salzwedel. At the same time, he campaigned for Salzwedel to be officially called Hanseatic City . On July 11, 2008, Schneider retired after 34 years of service for the city of Salzwedel, including 14 years as mayor. He died on December 31, 2016 at the age of 70.

literature

• Interview: Kerstin Wagner and Mark Bluhm, Salzwedel, September 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ KulTour operation of the city of Salzwedel: Importance of the Hanseatic day for Salzwedel. Retrieved April 7, 2009 . 
2. ^ Az-online: Salzwedel mourns Siegfried Schneider. January 3, 2017, accessed January 4, 2017 .