Town house (Potsdam)

Potsdamer Stadthaus, town hall of the city

The Potsdam town house on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße is the new town hall of Potsdam and is the seat of the city administration and the mayor . The registry office is also located in the building .

The old town hall is located on the old market and has housed the Potsdam Museum since 2012 .

building

The town house is located in Potsdam at Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 79/81 and comprises 478 rooms, including the plenary hall, the library and the blue salon .

The building was built between 1902 and 1907 as a government building for the Potsdam administrative district , and since 1947 it has been the seat of various administrative bodies of the city of Potsdam.

A partial renovation of the building, which began in 2015 and is estimated at 10 million euros, is due to be completed in 2018. ^{[out of date]} Further renovation measures are being considered.

City Council

Distribution of seats in the
Potsdam City Council 2019

A total of 56 seats

Left : 10
Greens : 10
SPD : 11
PARTY : 1
THE OTHER : 6
Citizens' alliance : 2
BVB / FW : 1
FDP : 3
CDU : 7
AfD : 5

The term of office of the city council is five years. After the election, the new assembly must meet no later than the 30th day thereafter. The city council is the main organ of the city administration and the representation of the citizens. The name of the chairman was city president from 1990 to 1999 and has been chairman of the city council ever since . The chairman is elected by the city council from among their number.

The city council of Potsdam has 56 members, who have been distributed among the individual parties / groups of voters as shown on the right since the local elections on May 26, 2019 (voter turnout: 62.3%). The parliamentary groups SPD, Greens / B90 and Die Linke form the so-called town hall cooperation , which provides the majority in the city council.

The chairman of the city council is Pete Heuer from the SPD parliamentary group. The chairmen since 1990 are listed in the following table:

Chairwoman of the city council
1990–1993: Helmut Przybilski (SPD)
1994–2008: Birgit Müller (PDS / Left)
2008–2014: Peter Schüler (Greens)
2014–2019: Birgit Müller (left)
since 2019: Pete Heuer (SPD)

Lord Mayor and Alderman

Mike Schubert has been the Lord Mayor of Potsdam since November 28, 2018 . He is also a member of the city council.

In the mayoral election on September 18, 2010, none of the candidates could achieve an absolute majority . Therefore, the new mayor had to be determined by a runoff election on October 3, 2010 between Jann Jakobs (SPD) and Hans-Jürgen Scharfenberg ( left ). Jakobs was able to prevail with a majority of 60.8 percent of the valid votes. He entered his second eight-year term after taking over the office in 2002 from Matthias Platzeck, who had moved to the State Chancellery as Prime Minister .

Political party	Surname	Official title / function	Business area (GB)
SPD	Jann Jakobs	Lord Mayor
SPD	Burkhard Exner	Mayor (Deputy Mayor)	GB 1 - Central control and service
CDU	Iris Jana Magdowski	Alderman	GB 2 - Education, Culture and Sport
independent	Elona Müller-Preinesberger	Alderman	GB 3 - Social, Youth, Health and Order
Green	Matthias Klipp	Alderman	GB 4 - Urban development, building and the environment

(As of 2015)

Lord Mayor 1809–1945	Lord Mayor 1945 – today
1809–1821 Jakob Brunner	1945: Friedrich Bestehorn
1821–1844: Wilhelm St. Paul	1945: Heinz Zahn
1844–1848: Wilhelm Krüger	1945–1950: Walter Paul ( SED )
1848-1851: B. Gobbin	1951–1957: Kurt Promnitz (SED)
1851–1878: Alexander Beyer	1957–1961: Wilhelm Rescher (SED)
1878–1897: Reinhold Boie	1961–1984: Brunhilde Hanke (SED)
1897–1905: Richard Jaehne	1984–1989: Wilfried Seidel (SED)
1906–1923: Kurt Vosberg	1989–1990: Manfred Bille (SED)
1924–1934: Arno Rauscher	1990–1998: Horst Gramlich ( SPD )
1934–1945: Hans Friedrichs ( NSDAP )	1998–2002: Matthias Platzeck (SPD)
	2002–2018: Jann Jakobs (SPD)
	since Nov. 28, 2018: Mike Schubert (SPD)