Peter Bürgel

Peter Biirgel ( born March 22, 1953 in Dachau ) is a former German politician of the CSU and was mayor from 2003 to 2014 the major district town Dachau. He is married and lives with his two daughters in Mitterndorf district.

After graduation he studied law at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University in Munich. Then Biirgel worked as a lawyer in his home town of Dachau.

Political career

Peter was Biirgel 1996-2002 leader of the CSU in the city council of Dachau. In 2002 he ran for the office of Mayor of the town of Dachau against the incumbent Kurt Piller ( OVR ). Since it did not come to an absolute majority of one of the two opponents in the first round, March 3, 2002, they had to go to the ballot. In this election, a nationwide sensational election fraud scandal took place. The run-off election on 17 March 2002, which Biirgel won by 73 votes majority against Piller, had to be repeated.

This Biirgel clearly won with a majority of 1221 votes.

The focus of his first term were, inter alia, the responsible use of the city with its history and the promotion of the former artists' colony Dachau as a city of art and culture. This commitment culminated in the 2007 election as President of Biirgel EuroArt, an association of 80 artists places from 21 European countries.

Peter Biirgel was confirmed at the municipal office in 2008, where he had to retire from the SPD here again in the runoff election against challenger Volker Koch. In 2014 he lost to his challenger, Florian Hartmann ( SPD) in the runoff.