Wolfgang Meyer (politician, 1948)

Wolfgang Meyer (2014)

In the university auditorium at the Göttinger Historikertag, September 2014

Wolfgang Meyer (* 26. April 1948 in Jump ) is a German politician of the SPD . On September 24, 2006, he was elected Lord Mayor of the City of Göttingen by means of a runoff election and took office as the successor to Jürgen Danielowski on November 1, 2006. He remained in office until the end of October 2014. Rolf-Georg Koehler followed him .

Life

Meyer grew up mostly in Salzgitter , where he also went to school. He studied law in Göttingen from 1969 to 1972 and completed his legal clerkship in various cities. From 1976 he worked as a public prosecutor and judge at the district court in Göttingen. In 1981 he was elected to the City Council of Göttingen , where he served as parliamentary group leader of the SPD from 1984 to 1991 . In 1991 he was elected to the legal department of the city of Göttingen, where he was responsible for the areas of law, order, environment, school, library and sport. At the end of 2002 he was prematurely unanimously confirmed in his office as head of department for another eight years by the city ​​council .

On November 24, 2005, a selection committee of the SPD city association of Göttingen, consisting of Klaus Wettig , Gabriele Andretta , Rainer Kallmann , Stephan Klecha and Claudia Leuner-Haverich , proposed Meyer as a candidate of the SPD for the election of the mayor. On the same evening he was unanimously set up as a candidate of the SPD by the SPD city association preliminary assembly of all SPD members in Göttingen on January 28, 2006. Meyer received 99.4% of the vote for his candidacy. In the first ballot on September 10, 2006, Meyer received 41.3% of the vote. Daniel Helberg (CDU) received the second-largest share of the vote with 25.8% and then got into the runoff election on September 24, 2006 with Meyer. Meyer received the support of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , whose own mayoral candidate Stefan Wenzel at 19, 9% failed in the first ballot. Meyer won the runoff election for the office of Lord Mayor with 68.9% against the candidate of the CDU , Daniel Helberg. In 2014 Meyer did not stand for election for reasons of age, his term of office ended on October 31 of that year.

Meyer has been married since 1974 and has a daughter and two sons.

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Meyer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Göttinger Tageblatt of October 27, 2014, p. 9: OB for the complicated cases .
2. ↑ Gerhard Eckhardt: Göttingen's highest office and its dignitaries. Pachnicke Druck 2014, p. 122.