Thilo Rentschler

Thilo Rentschler

Thilo Rentschler (born November 9, 1967 in Nellingen on the Fildern ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and business economist . He has been Lord Mayor of the Baden-Württemberg district town of Aalen since October 2013 .

Life and professional history

Rentschler was born in Nellingen on the Fildern and grew up in Fellbach . After training as a banker at Dresdner Bank in Stuttgart, he worked there in the foreign department. He started studying business administration at the Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences , which he completed with a degree in business administration .

Then Rentschler became managing director of the KLIP & LIEB agency for communication and at the same time a member of the board of its parent company, Klip AG for corporate development . He also taught at the Glauchau vocational academy and at the vocational training center in Stuttgart. In 2004 he moved to the diaconal institution Mariaberger Heime (since 2008 Mariaberg eV ), where he became commercial director and also managing director of the Mariaberg Foundation. In 2007 he became spokesman for the board. After being elected mayor of Aalen, he left the company in 2013.

Rentschler was also a member of the labor law commission of the Protestant regional church in Württemberg . From 2009 he was also chairman of the commission for corporate issues, agency and tariff policy at the Diakonisches Werk Württemberg . In this function he was also the deputy chairman of the sponsors' meeting as well as a member of the association council, the finance committee and the emergency fund of the Diakonisches Werk. Rentschler is an honorary member of the Board of Trustees of the Weraheim ecclesiastical refuge in Stuttgart.

Thilo Rentschler is married to Brigitte Rentschler and has three children.

politics

Thilo Rentschler joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1992 . He had been a member of the youth welfare committee in the Rems-Murr district council since 1990 , where he stayed until 1994. He then became a member of Fellbach's municipal council in 1994 and held this mandate until 2006, which he last fulfilled as parliamentary group chairman. He was also a member of the supervisory boards of Stadtwerke Fellbach GmbH and Schwabenlandhalle Betriebsgesellschaft mbH Fellbach .

In 2013 he was elected mayor in Aalen , where the previous incumbent Martin Gerlach waived a second term. After Rentschler was unable to get the required absolute majority of votes from three other candidates in the first ballot on July 7, 2013, he sat down in the second ballot on July 21, 2013 with 60.5% of the votes and a voter turnout of 43 , 6% through. He then took office in October 2013.

In allusion to its working speed it is called "Turbo-Thilo".

Since November 2019, Rentschler has been Baden-Württemberg's state chairman of the Social Democratic Community for Local Politics , the union of local politicians in the SPD.

Web links

• Official website of the city of Aalen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Benefiting from the offices in the Diakonie as Lord Mayor, diakonie-wuerttemberg.de, September 19, 2013.
2. ↑ Result of the OB election July 21, 2013 (2nd ballot), ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2013 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. aalen.de, July 21, 2013. 
3. ↑ Ceremonial inauguration of Mayor Thilo Rentschler,  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. aalen.de, October 3, 2013.  
4. ↑ The Turbo-Thilo thwarted Schwäbische Post, February 23, 2017.
5. ↑ SGK press release from December 4th, 2019. SGK Baden-Württemberg, December 5, 2019, accessed on February 26, 2020 .