Willi Schmöller

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Willi Schmöller (born February 16, 1945 in Passau ) is a German politician (formerly SPD ) and was Lord Mayor of Passau from 1990 to 2002 .

Life

Training & studies

From 1965 onwards, Schmöller initially trained as a banker at Volksbank Passau. From 1968 to 1971 he studied business administration at the University of Economics and Politics in Hamburg. After graduating with a degree in business administration (FH) , he studied pedagogy for teaching at primary and secondary schools at the University of Regensburg from 1972 to 1975 . Subsequently, until his election as mayor, he worked as a teacher at various primary and secondary schools, including in the Passau district of Neustift , in Auerbach and Grubweg .

Political career

In 1972 Schmöller joined the SPD and was elected to the city ​​council in 1984 after his first candidacy for this body in 1978 failed. In 1989 he was also chairman of the SPD city association. After the local elections on March 18, 1990, in which he received 27.12 percent of the vote, he ran a runoff against the incumbent Lord Mayor Hans Hösl ( CSU ) on April 1 of that year and achieved the necessary 51.16 percent Majority; Schmöller became the first SPD mayor of Passau. In 1996 he was confirmed in office by 66.1 percent of Passau's citizens.

As Lord Mayor

As Lord Mayor, the modernization of the administration was particularly important to him . This modernization process attracted nationwide attention and Schmöller was awarded twice, in 1994 and 1998, by the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer . In 1997, the Taxpayers' Association honored him with the creative prize for his will to reform . Schmöller's responsibility included redesigning the Bundeswehr area in Kohlbruck and the first plans for a new center .

From June to September 1992 Schmöller ran the official business without an incumbent city council, as the city council elections of March 18, 1990 had been declared invalid by the government of Lower Bavaria.

On March 17, 2002, he was defeated by his challenger Albert Zankl from the CSU in a runoff election with 46.7 percent of the vote. Schmöller was soon appointed former mayor.

After being voted out

From 1994 to 2002 Schmöller was a member of the board of directors of the communal joint agency for administrative modernization in Cologne and from 1996 to 2002 a member of the jury at the Bavarian quality competition of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. He has also written several technical articles on the subject of administrative modernization.

Since 2003 Schmöller has been a member of Governance International's management with the title of Director. He is also an honorary representative of the German Heart Foundation and a consultant for the Raiffeisenlandesbank Upper Austria.

Schmöller is also a member of the Passau Lampl Brotherhood and an honorary member of the “Ilzer Radler und Wanderer”.

In February 2007 he resigned from the SPD because, according to his own statement, it had ignored him since he was voted out of office. Schmöller himself said, among other things, when he left the party: "I no longer have a political home in the SPD." (Quote: PNP )

The culture committee and the plenary session of the city council decided on March 8 and 19, 2007, respectively, to make Willi Schmöller an honorary citizen of the city of Passau .

Awards

media

  • Thomas Seider: Willi Schmöller is on everyone's lips again. In: Passauer Neue Presse of February 3, 2007 (p. 35)
  • Stefan Rammer: City Council: Passau gets two new honorary citizens. In: Passauer Neue Presse of March 20, 2007 (p. 29)
  • Anonymous: That stuck: The words of the year. In: Passauer Neue Presse of December 31, 2007 (p. 29)

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personal data
SURNAME Schmöller, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Lord Mayor of the City of Passau (1990-2002)
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau