Walter Weinbach

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Walter Weinbach (* 1943 in Horchheim ) is a German administrative lawyer and local politician ( CDU ).

Career

Weinbach graduated from the Johannes-Gymnasium in Niederlahnstein and then studied law in Cologne and Bonn . He passed the first state examination in law in 1968 at the Cologne Higher Regional Court and the second at the Koblenz Higher Regional Court in 1971 . In 1971 he became a member of the government council of the Unterwesterwaldkreis , in 1973 he was a consultant in the Koblenz district government and in 1975 he was appointed first alderman of the Weissenthurm community .

On October 5, 1977, he was elected mayor of the community of Weißenthurm. He was confirmed in office three times. After 32 years and 9 months in office, he was retired on June 25, 2010 as the longest-serving full-time mayor in Rhineland-Palatinate. Weinbach had decided to hand over the official business eight months before the end of his term of office so that his successor could be elected at the same time as the 2009 Bundestag election .

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. Kirmeszeitung (PDF; 1.1 MB) of the Horchheimer Kirmesgesellschaft, 1997
  2. Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 64, No. 9, January 17, 2012.