Wolfgang Rossmann

Wolfgang Roßmann (* 1938 in Schweidnitz , Province of Silesia , today Świdnica in Lower Silesia, Poland) is a retired judge and former local politician. In 1990 his long-awaited goal came true. With the third attempt, he became mayor of Kempten . Roßmann is the only head of the city in the history of Kempten who was appointed by the SPD .

Life

Wolfgang Roßmann was born in Schweidnitz in 1938. At the end of the war in 1945 he came to Regensburg as a 7-year-old . After graduating from high school in Munich in 1958 , he actually wanted to become an architect. However, he did a law degree in Munich. After graduating, he worked as a research assistant and as a lawyer at the Federal Ministry of Labor in Bonn .

In 1968 he became a public prosecutor in Memmingen , and in 1971 he took on the same position in the Kempten district court . Roßmann has been a SPD member since 1967. Roßmann has been involved in local politics since 1978, where he was city councilor and parliamentary group leader of the SPD. In Kempten, Roßmann needed a total of three attempts to be elected mayor. In 1990 he won the election campaign with a majority of 62.4 percent.

Roßmann's term of office was marked by various changes. Among other things, he strove to build a new prison in Kempten , set up a new public transport network with the central bus transfer point as the center, commissioned the city to purchase the former barracks site of the Prinz-Franz-Kaserne and redesigned the town hall square . Roßmann also had the idea to build the Forum Allgäu on the former station grounds. Many of the projects he started could only be completed by Ulrich Netzer's successor .

After the unsuccessful re-election in 1996, Roßmann returned to the judiciary, and in 2003 he retired. Until then he was the presiding judge in the Kempten Regional Court. Wolfgang Roßmann is married and has three daughters.

Honors

In 1998 Roßmann received the town hall medal from the city of Kempten, in 2008 a portrait painting by Horst Heilmann was presented in the town hall in Kempten , which hangs right next to the one by Josef Höß, which was also painted by Horst Heilmann.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Mayor's portrait: Wolfgang Roßmann, Kempten. In: Bayerische Staatszeitung, No. 15, April 13, 1995.
2. ↑ Blickpunkt Allgäu, July 1990
3. ^ "Life work in the service of law" In: Allgäuer Zeitung, No. 250, October 30, 2003.
4. ^ Kemptens City Councilors: Dr. Wolfgang Rossmann. In: Kreisbote, No. 32, August 7, 1980.
5. ↑ ›The choice was a stroke of luck for me‹ In: Allgäuer Zeitung, No. 101, May 1, 1991.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Claudia Benz: Allgäuer Zeitung No. 290, December 13, 2008.
7. ↑ Town hall medal for ex-Mayor Roßmann. In: Allgäuer Zeitung, No. 236, October 14, 1998.
8. ↑ Christine Tröger: Roßmann is back. In: Kreisbote, December 30, 2008.