Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann

Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann (born September 5, 1953 in Heessen , today a district of the city of Hamm ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and since October 1, 1999 full-time Lord Mayor of Hamm ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

Life

education and profession

Hunsteger started school in elementary school. After he finished attending the secondary school in Heessen, Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann, who comes from a family of craftsmen, completed an apprenticeship as a butcher. Then he did his basic military service. After his journeyman's examination, Hunsteger-Petermann also passed the master craftsman's examination and took over the butcher's shop from his adoptive father Hunsteger. Hunsteger had adopted Petermann because he could not find a successor for his butcher shop. Hunsteger-Petermann managed this butcher shop in the following years. In 1999, Hunsteger-Petermann was elected full-time mayor of the city of Hamm. He is committed to Catholicism.

Political career

Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann became a CDU member in 1972. He began to get involved in local politics in Heessen, and in the following decades he held a variety of functions and offices. From 1975 to 1979 he was a member of the Heessen district council, 1989 to 1999 chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Heessen district council, 1975 to 1995 deputy chairman of the child and youth welfare committee and from 1995 to 1999 chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the city council of Hamm . From this position he stood in the first direct mayor election in 1999 and prevailed in the runoff election with 59.6 percent of the votes against the SPD candidate Monika Simshäuser (40.4 percent). Five years later, Hunsteger-Petermann was re-elected. In the first ballot he prevailed with 60.2 percent against the social democrat Hans Estermann (33.3 percent). At the beginning of 2009, Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann - after Oliver Wittke's resignation - was under discussion as NRW State Transport Minister, but announced that he wanted to stay in Hamm . On August 30, 2009, Monika Simshäuser (SPD) was again the opposing candidate for the mayor's election. With 63.2 percent of the votes cast, Hunsteger-Petermann won in the first ballot. In November 2013 he exercised his right to shorten his term of office; this would have lasted until autumn 2015. In this way, he paved the way for joint council and mayoral elections in May 2014. In the local elections on May 25, 2014, he ran against SPD candidate Dennis Kocker, among others. He won the election with 56.3% of the votes cast. In the 2020 local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on September 13, 2020, Hunsteger-Petermann will run again as a candidate for the office of Lord Mayor.

Other offices

Hunsteger-Petermann is a member of the district board of the Hammer CDU and deputy federal chairman or state chairman of the CDU Local Political Association (KPV). In addition, as a "born member", Hunsteger-Petermann represents the interests of the city of Hamm in various committees of the municipal investment companies, which are listed in the following list. He has also been chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia City Council since June 6, 2018.

• German Association of Cities (Board of Directors; Main Committee and Economic Committee)
• Energy and water supply Hamm GmbH
• Friends of the zoo Hamm (mostly municipal operation)
• Gelsenwasser (Advisory Board)
• Municipal job center Hamm AöR (Board of Directors)
• LBS
• NRW Bank (Advisory Board)
• RAG (regional advisory board)
• Regional Association Ruhr (member of the association assembly)
• RWE (Advisory Board)
• Sparkasse Hamm (Audit Committee, Board of Directors; Credit Committee)
• Sparkasse property development company
• Savings Banks Association Westphalia-Lippe
• Stadtwerke Hamm (shareholders' meeting)
• Hamm Tourist Office (Chairman)
• Zentralhallen Hamm GmbH (supervisory board) (municipal operation)

Other activities

• Friends of Hospice (Chairman)
• SCKF - S-opportunities capital fund
• German War Graves Commission

Personal

Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann is married and has a grown daughter. Hunsteger-Petermann has been active at the Waldbühne Heessen for over 40 years . Over the decades he has taken on a wide variety of roles there.

Web links

• Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann on the side of the city of Hamm

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.hamm.de (undated) biography of HP , accessed on June 10, 2020
2. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/politik/nrw-fdp-draengt-ruettgers-neuen-verkehrsminister-schnell-ernennen-id812937.html website of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
3. ↑ hamm.de: election results , accessed on May 18, 2015
4. ↑ "backing for Hunsteger: OB receives 99 percent of the vote" wa.de from June 7, 2020 , accessed on June 11, 2020
5. ↑ http://www.hamm.de/ob/amtlich.html Homepage of the city of Hamm. Retrieved March 3, 2014
6. ↑ Kommjur 7/2018, p. VIII

predecessor	Office	successor
Jürgen Wieland	Lord Mayor of Hamm since 1999	---