Uwe Lichtenberg

Uwe Lichtenberg on June 23, 2009

Uwe Lichtenberg (born June 21, 1934 in Ahrensburg ; † May 11, 2011 in Fürth ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and Lord Mayor of the city of Fürth.

Life

Lichtenberg was born in Ahrensburg and grew up in Upper Bavaria. He completed an apprenticeship as a retail salesman and then became a deacon . After studying social pedagogy , he came to Fürth in 1958, where he initially worked in the youth welfare office.

From 1959 Lichtenberg was a member of the SPD. In 1966 he was elected to the Fürth city council for the first time, and from 1972 he was chairman of the SPD city council group. In 1975 Lichtenberg moved to the city administration as a social officer. In 1984 he was elected mayor as the successor to Kurt Scherzer ( FDP ), who had no longer stood as a candidate; he received 54 percent of the vote. In 1990 he was re-elected with 57 percent of the vote. In 1996 he was defeated by 300 votes in the runoff to Wilhelm Wenning ( CSU ). Lichtenberg retired into private life after the defeat.

During Lichtenberg's tenure, among other things, the new building and renovation of the Fürth clinic , which he was already involved in as a social officer, took place.

Lichtenberg also advocated the construction of underground line 1 . During his term of office, the Fürth Hauptbahnhof station opened , and the construction of the extension to the city ​​hall , which opened at the end of 1998 , began during his term of office. The expansion of the subway was controversial in Fürth and was given by Lichtenberg himself as a reason for his defeat in 1996.

As a further reason for his defeat in 1996, Lichtenberg saw the discussion about the garbage smoldering incinerator , for which Lichtenberg advocated and whose construction began in 1994. In the end, the smoldering plant only went into operation for a few months due to several incidents.

Lichtenberg's second term in office from 1990 onwards was marked by the withdrawal of US troops from Fürth in 1995, which had three barracks there. However, the main decisions on how to deal with the vacated areas were made by his successor.

Lichtenberg also promoted cooperation between the cities of Nuremberg , Fürth, Erlangen and Schwabach in the city ​​axis , all of which were governed by the SPD at the time. One of the most important plans was the joint industrial park of the cities of Nuremberg, Fürth and Erlangen in Knoblauchsland . After the election victories of the CSU in the city axis in the municipal elections in 1996, this industrial park was never realized (in addition to Fürth, the CSU also won the mayor's office in Nuremberg and Erlangen in 1996).

In addition to closer local politics, one focus of Lichtenberg's politics was also on peace and international understanding. On his initiative, Fürth joined the Mayors for Peace initiative in 1985 . During his tenure, town twinning was established with Bijeljina (then Yugoslavia , now Bosnia-Herzegovina , from 1987), Limoges ( France , from 1992) and Marmaris ( Turkey , from 1995).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} nordbayern.de: Fürth mourns Uwe Lichtenberg
2. ↑ abendzeitung-muenchen.de: Fuerth mourns for former OB Uwe Lichtenberg
3. ↑ ^{a b} fuerth.de: Mourning for former Mayor Uwe Lichtenberg ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ cf. Wikipedia article U-Bahn Nuremberg
5. ↑ fuerthwiki.de: Garbage smoldering plant
6. ^ City planning office of the city of Fürth: 10 years of conversion. The Fürth Way (PDF; 6.4 MB)
7. ↑ Mayors for Peace: Members List / Germany ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2010 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.