Wolfgang Werner (politician, 1952)

Wolfgang Werner (born April 17, 1952 ) is a German local politician and was Mayor of Datteln from 1999 to 2014 .

Life

Dattelner joined the SPD in June 1986 . After a short membership, he was elected to the board of the local association Datteln-Stadt and ran for the Datteln SPD for the electoral district of Hötting in the local elections in autumn 1989 . With 58.3 percent of the vote, he was directly elected to the city council of Datteln.

When the Deputy Mayor Josef Majewski resigned from his position at the beginning of 1991 for reasons of age, the City Council of Datteln chose Wolfgang Werner as his successor. After Mayor Horst Niggemeier's resignation, which caused a sensation , Werner took over the post of 1st Mayor in March 1992.

In the local elections in 1994, Wolfgang Werner and the SPD achieved an absolute majority with 51.7 percent. With this majority, he was voted out of office as honorary mayor against his will in June 1996, so that the then city ​​director Rudolf Böhm could be promoted to the office of full-time mayor. Thereupon Wolfgang Werner resigned all political offices in Datteln. He also exercised his district council mandate, which he had won in October 1994 with 54 percent of the vote.

On September 12, 1999, 59.17 percent of the voters voted for Wolfgang Werner as full-time mayor of the city of Datteln. He has held this office since October 1, 1999. He was from the SPD end of 1999 excluded and was confirmed in 2004 as a non-party candidate with 79 percent of the vote in his office as mayor. Also in August 2009 he was confirmed in office with 66.16 percent of all votes.

Web links

• Internet presence of Wolfgang Werner
• Election 2009