Simon Faber

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Michael Zenner , Simon Faber (second from left), Christian Dewanger and Prince Joachim at the rededication of the Idstedt Lion (2011)

Simon Faber (born September 11, 1968 in Flensburg ) is a German - Danish politician ( SSW ) and former Lord Mayor of the city of Flensburg.

Life

Simon Faber was born on September 11, 1968 in Flensburg into a German family. His father comes from Stettin and his mother from Hamburg. In 1987 he passed the Abitur at the Danish grammar school in Flensburg and, after doing his community service, studied German and musicology at the university and at the music conservatory in Aarhus, Denmark . After working for a Danish publisher, he was chief secretary of the director of the radio orchestra at Danmarks Radio from 2002 to 2004 .

Faber has been living in Flensburg again since 2004. Until 2010 he worked for the Danish parliament as a cultural policy advisor for the Danish minority in Germany .

The South Schleswig voters' association nominated him in May 2010 as a candidate for the mayoral election in Flensburg on October 31, 2010. In the first ballot, Faber was second behind Elfi Heesch (CDU and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, 25.1%) with 19.4% of the votes. ) and before Thede Boysen (SPD, 18.2%). In the second ballot on November 21, 2010, he was able to prevail against Elfi Heesch (45.2%) with 54.8% of the votes and on January 15, 2011 he succeeded the previous mayor Klaus Tscheuschner , who had not run again.

In the next mayoral election on June 5, 2016, Faber was defeated in the first ballot against the candidate Simone Lange , who was jointly nominated by the SPD, CDU and the Greens and received 51.4 percent of the vote. The mayor, who was in office until January 15, 2017, took second place with 22.8 percent of the votes.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Dane in Flensburg's town hall. In: Berliner Zeitung . January 15, 2011, accessed April 20, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Simon Faber: Insight - About the person. Resume. Archived from the original on November 24, 2010 ; Retrieved September 5, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Note: In Schleswig-Holstein only the two best placed in the first ballot will run again in the second ballot.
personal data
SURNAME Faber, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Danish politician (SSW) and former Lord Mayor of the city of Flensburg
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg