Tim Kurzbach

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Lord Mayor Tim Kurzbach in front of the town hall in Solingen-Mitte (2017)

Tim-Oliver Kurzbach (born April 27, 1978 in Solingen-Ohligs ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and has been Lord Mayor of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Solingen since 2015 .

Origin, studies, professional activity and private matters

Kurzbach, the son of a car -Meisters and a housewife grew up with his younger brother in a strongly Catholic middle-class family in the district of Solingen Ohligs. From 1984 to 1988 he attended the community elementary school Südstraße there. In 1988 Kurzbach switched to the Albert-Schweitzer-Realschule in Solingen- Wald , which he left in 1994 with the technical college entrance qualification. As a secondary school student, he was active in the parish and youth work of St. Joseph in Solingen-Ohligs. In 1996 Kurzbach obtained the advanced technical college entrance qualification (with a focus on social pedagogy ) at the Mildred Scheel vocational college in Solingen- Merscheid . From 1996 to 1997 Tim Kurzbach stayed in Pamplona ( Spain ). From the winter semester 1997/98 he studied social work at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne and in 2006 acquired the academic degree of Dipl.-Sozialarbeit (FH) . Until his election as Mayor of Solingen in 2015, he was the full-time director of the Solingen workers' welfare organization .

Tim Kurzbach is the father of twins and lives with his wife, the former Green City Councilor Ursula Linda Kurzbach (née Zarniko), in Solingen-Ohligs. Kurzbach is a practicing Catholic and an active member of the St. Sebastian parish in Ohligs, where he also works as a lecturer in church services . Since 2014 he has been chairman of the diocesan council in the Archdiocese of Cologne , which represents around 2.1 million Catholics in the Rhineland . Tim Kurzbach is a fan of 1. FC Köln .

Political career

SPD City Council (2004 to 2015)

Tim Kurzbach joined the SPD in 2001 as a 23-year-old social education student. From 2004 to 2015 he was city ​​councilor for the SPD in Solingen. The SPD parliamentary group elected him chairman of the parliamentary group in 2012, and Tim Kurzbach was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group until 2015.

Lord Mayor of Solingen (since 2015)

Mayor election (2015)

On November 30, 2013, Tim Kurzbach was elected as a candidate for the Solingen mayor election in September 2015 at the nomination party convention of the Solingen SPD. In 2015, the Solingen district association of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen decided to support him and put him up as a candidate. In a runoff election on September 27, 2015, Tim Kurzbach won the election as the new Lord Mayor of Solingen with 55.61% of the vote. His opponent from the CDU was Frank Feller, who received 44.39% of the vote. On October 21, 2015 he succeeded Norbert Feith (CDU) and was sworn in as the 20th mayor of Solingen on October 29, 2015 in the Ohlig festival hall. Tim Kurzbach's term of office ends on October 28, 2020.

Mayor election (2020)

In March 2018, Kurzbach announced that he would stand for re-election on September 13, 2020. The Solingen SPD and the Solingen Greens support Kurzbach's renewed candidacy for the top candidate for the OB. On May 30, 2020, 96 of 98 SPD members voted for Kurzbach, with two invalid votes, and 29 of 30 party members among the Greens also voted for Tim Kurzbach.

Political offices

  • 2004–2015 SPD city councilor in the Solingen city council
  • 2012–2015 SPD parliamentary group chairman in the Solingen city council
  • 2004–2015 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Elderly Centers of the City of Solingen gGmbH
  • 2015 – today chairman of the administrative board of Stadt-Sparkasse Solingen
  • 2016 – today member of the board of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 2019 – today Deputy Chairman of the Rhineland Metropolitan Region

Honorary positions

Tim Kurzbach at the opening of the 48th  Zöppkesmarkt (2016)
  • 1987–1991 acolyte under Monsignor Heinz-Manfred Jansen in the Catholic parish of St. Joseph in Solingen-Ohligs
  • 1998–2005 chairman of the Federation of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ) in Remscheid and Solingen
  • 1999–2015 member of the youth welfare committee of the city of Solingen
  • 1999–2004 district leader of the German Red Cross (DRK) district association Solingen
  • 2008–2011 district readiness manager of the German Red Cross (DRK) district of Düsseldorf
  • 2009–2015 labor judge ( assessor ) at the labor court in Solingen
  • 2008–2014 Chairman of the Diocesan Association of the Catholic Workers' Movement in the Archdiocese of Cologne
  • 2012 Hoppeditz on " Eleventh in Eleventh "
  • 1988 – today member of the Prinzengarde Blau-Gelb Ohligs 1936 e. V.
  • 1994 – today member of the German Red Cross (DRK)
  • 2014 – today deputy chairman of the Catholic Jugendwerke Bergisch Land eV
  • 2012 – today co-founder and deputy chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Traditional Solinger Customs e. V. (including Solinger-Zöppkesmarkt )
  • 2014 – today Chairman of the Diocesan Council in the Archdiocese of Cologne
  • 2014 – today member of the Ohligser Jongens eV
  • 2016 – today patron of the wish list campaign of the Solinger Tafel eV
  • 2018 – today member of the palliative support association Solingen eV
  • 2019 – today member of the Max Leven Center Solingen e. V.

Web links

Commons : Tim Kurzbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Kurzbach wins the OB election. In: solinger-tageblatt.de. September 27, 2015, accessed February 21, 2017 .
  2. ^ Solingen: Deutsche Bahn reacts to letters of protest from Mayor Kurzbach. In: solinger-bote.de. November 5, 2015, accessed February 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ They apply to you. In: solinger-tageblatt.de. September 24, 2015, accessed February 21, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Vita of Lord Mayor Tim Kurzbach. In: solingen.de. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  5. ↑ SPD: Kurzbach should be OB. In: solinger-tageblatt.de. April 27, 1978. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Mayor Tim Kurzbach and Ursula Linda Zarniko get married on the Baltic Sea. In: solinger-tageblatt.de. May 18, 2016. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Martin Oberpriller: Solingen: Mayor Kurzbach is the father of twins. In: rp-online.de. September 2, 2016, accessed February 21, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b Tim Kurzbach. In: tim-kurzbach.de. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  9. ↑ https://www.solinger-tageblatt.de/solingen/kurzbach-will-grosses-bewegen-5384718.html
  10. ↑ Solingen: Tim Kurzbach is the new mayor - Solingen. In: solinger-tageblatt.de. September 27, 2015, accessed February 21, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Bastian Glumm: Solingen: Tim Kurzbach officially sworn in as mayor. In: solinger-bote.de. October 29, 2015, accessed February 21, 2017 .
  12. ↑ https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/solingen/solingen-tim-kurzbach-jetzt-auch-offiziell-ob-kandidat_aid-51417085
  13. ↑ https://www.solingen.de/ris/ris-2014/1220e-stadt-sparkasse-solingen-9145024/
  14. ↑ Lord Mayor Tim Kurzbach elected to the SPD state executive. In: solinger-bote.de. September 26, 2016. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  15. ↑ https://www.solinger-tageblatt.de/solingen/kurzbach-rueckt-metropolregion-12107471.html
  16. ↑ Ulrike Kohl: Solingen: Hoppeditz is a politician again. In: rp-online.de. November 12, 2012, accessed February 21, 2017 .
  17. ^ Members. In: Prinzengarde Ohligs. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  18. ↑ https://jugendpastoral.erzbistum-koeln.de/kjw_bergisch_land/kjw_wir_ueber_uns_leitbild/
  19. ↑ https://brauchum-solingen.jimdofree.com/vereins Zweck-vorstand /
  20. ↑ https://www.solinger-tageblatt.de/solingen/ohligser-jongens-haben-viel-4938973.html
  21. ↑ https://www.solinger-tageblatt.de/solingen/solinger-erfuellen-kinder-weihnachtswuensche-13235933.html
  22. ↑ https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/solingen/solingen-ob-kurzbach-unterstuetzt-palliativmedizin_aid-23820157
  23. ↑ https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/solingen/solingen-verein-bildungs-und-gedenkstaette-max-leven-zentrum-gegruendet_aid-45936755
personal data
SURNAME Kurzbach, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurzbach, Tim-Oliver (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen-Ohligs