Thomas Nitzsche

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Thomas Nitzsche (2018)

Thomas Nitzsche (born December 1, 1975 in Zeulenroda ) is a German politician ( FDP ) and has been Lord Mayor of Jena since July 1, 2018 .

Career

From 1982 to 1991 Nitzsche attended the "Hubert Westhoff" polytechnic high school in Zeulenroda, then the Carl Zeiss grammar school in Jena, where he graduated from high school in 1994. From 1995 he studied English and political science at the Friedrich Schiller University . Apart from a year in Glasgow and three months in Salamanca , he stayed here until his doctorate. From the first semester until his master's degree , Nitzsche was a research assistant to the future rector Klaus Dicke . He wrote his doctorate, completed in 2007, on the liberal Spaniard Salvador de Madariaga . From 2008 until he took office as mayor, Nitzsche was a specialist at the Thuringian University and State Library .

politics

Nitzsche at an election campaign event in spring 2018.

In 2003 Nitzsche became district chairman of the Young Liberals in Jena, and in 2007 of the FDP. He has been a member of the Jena City Council since 2009. In the local elections in Thuringia in 2012 , he applied for the office of Mayor of Jena for the first time and received 2.4% of the vote. He ran for the 2013 federal election in the Gera - Jena - Saale-Holzland district . Nitzsche is deputy state chairman of the FDP Thuringia . In the city council of Jena he was chairman of the youth welfare, school development and daycare subcommittees. Until his election, he headed the motor vehicle traffic advisory board of the city of Jena and, as a knowledgeable citizen, was a member of the urban development committee.

At the local elections in Thuringia in 2018 , Nitzsche stood as candidate for mayor of the FDP in Jena. In the first ballot on April 15, 2018, he was in the largest field of participants in the Free State with nine candidates and received the most votes with 26.9 percent. Thus Nitzsche "surprisingly" gave more voters their vote than the incumbent of the SPD Albrecht Schröter . In the runoff election on April 29, 2018, Nitzsche finally prevailed against Schröter with 63.3 percent of the vote.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , Nitzsche was the first Lord Mayor in Germany, who asked citizens to wear mouth and nose protection at the end of March. For a few days this became mandatory in Jena. City of Jena (Ed.): Public announcement of the city of Jena . Jena March 31, 2020, p. 7 ( jena.de [PDF; accessed on May 26, 2020] point 13 ac). The mask requirement in shops, public transport and at work was introduced on April 6, 2020, about three weeks before the rest of Germany. Compared to comparable cities such as Trier, Darmstadt or Rostock, the increase in the number of infections was reduced by a quarter, and in the group of people over sixty by half. Nitzsche said in July 2020: “The mask is one of the most efficient, most effective, but at the same time one of the mildest means we have to contain the virus. The mask is protection first, not burden first. Wearing a mask is uncomfortable, but does not interfere with fundamental rights. "

Private

Nitzsche has been married since 1998. The couple have a daughter and a son.

Publications

Web links

Commons : Thomas Nitzsche  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Vita & Profile. In: ob-jena.com. Dr. Thomas Nitzsche, April 6, 2018, accessed April 28, 2018 .
  2. ^ OB elections: Thomas Nitzsche in a portrait of the FDP. In: FDP Jena-Saale-Holzland - The Liberals online. fdp-jena-shk.de, accessed on April 28, 2018 .
  3. ^ A b Pauline Schinkels: Jenaer Thomas Nitzsche goes to Berlin with a family photo. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung . http://stadtroda.otz.de/ , May 18, 2013, accessed on April 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Portrait of the Lord Mayor Dr. Thomas Nitzsche. In: jena.de. Retrieved July 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Election of the district administrators and mayors of the independent cities 2012 - final result: Kreisfrei Stadt 053 Stadt Jena. Regional Returning Officer Thuringia, accessed on April 30, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Martin Debes: This is where the election in Thuringia will be particularly exciting. In: tlz.de. Thüringische Landeszeitung , April 5, 2018, accessed April 30, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Mayor runoff election Jena: Will Nitzsche succeed in the coup? In: jenaer-nachrichten.de. April 17, 2018, accessed April 30, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Surprises in the election of the mayor in Thuringia. In: thueringen24.de. April 15, 2018, accessed April 30, 2018 .
  9. ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/coronavirus-jena-plant-mundschutz-pflicht-a-6a165b44-1d75-426c-bdaf-e0b8b5e34e8b
  10. ↑ faz.net July 7, 2020 Joachim Müller-Jung : Only perseverance helps against Corona
  11. ↑ spiegel.de July 11, 2020: "Wearing a mask is not an interference with fundamental rights" - Interview
predecessor Office successor
Albrecht Schröter Lord Mayor of Jena
since 2018 		-
personal data
SURNAME Nitzsche, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Lord Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH 1st December 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeulenroda