Ulrich Uibel

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Ulrich "Uli" Uibel (born February 20, 1954 in Solingen ; † August 5, 2020 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ), Lord Mayor of Solingen and managing director .

Life

Ulrich Uibel studied after graduating from the High School Sword street legal and social sciences at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn .

Uibel joined the SPD as early as 1972. From 1977 he worked as a personal advisor to Heinz Schreiber, member of the Bundestag, from Solingen. In 1981 he came as a successor to the City Council of Solingen, of which he was a permanent member until 2014. From 1985 to 1997 he was chairman of the SPD city council group. After the North Rhine-Westphalian reform of the local authority, Uibel was elected by the city council as the first full-time mayor of the city of Solingen on June 26, 1997. In the first direct mayor election, he could not defend the office. In the election on September 12, 1999, he lost in the first ballot with 34.7 percent of the votes against the CDU candidate Franz Haug with 59.3 percent of the votes.

In 2000 Uibel became CEO of Ohligser Wohnungsbau eG (OWB). After the bankruptcy in 2010, Uibel became chairman of the board of the successor company Neue Unternehmer-Wohnungsbau eG (NEWS) . Uibel was a member of the administrative board of Stadt-Sparkasse Solingen. He was also on the board of the castle building association Burg an der Wupper eV . With the election of Tim Kurzbach (SPD) as the new Lord Mayor of Solingen, Uibel moved back to the city council via the reserve list in 2015.

Ulrich Uibel died suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 66 on August 5, 2020 in his hometown of Solingen.

“I wish one more thing for our city: courage for the future, courage for change. Every creative spirit in business, administration, politics or culture should participate more actively in the discussion about the future of our city (...). "

- Ulrich Uibel, June 26, 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Former Mayor Ulrich "Uli" Uibel died unexpectedly. In: Solinger Tageblatt. August 6, 2020, accessed August 7, 2020 .
  2. Mayor election , District-Free City of Solingen , State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on November 3, 2017.
  3. ^ Ohligser Wohnungsbau files for insolvency Thursday , Rheinische Post Solingen , May 19, 2010.
  4. Ulrich Uibel new lord of the castle at Burg Castle? , Solinger Bote , February 27, 2011.
  5. https://solingenmagazin.de/solingens-alt-ob-uli-uibel-66-verstorben/
  6. Gallery of the Lord Mayors, Solingen 2012 ( Memento from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 14.0 MB)