Burkhard Jung

Burkhard Jung ( born March 7, 1958 in Siegen) is a German politician ( SPD). He's since March 2006, the mayor of Leipzig.

• 2.1 Assistant Secretary of Leipzig ( 1996-2006)
• 2.2 Mayor of Leipzig (since 2006)

• 3.1 Investment Scandal " adoptable Land "

Life

Origin and school

Jung attended from 1964 to 1968 the Protestant elementary school Gosenbach in Siegen. After obtaining the general qualification for university entrance at the high school on Löhrtor in 1977 Burkhard Jung began at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster the study of German and Protestant theology.

Burkhard Jung is married and has four children, including the actress Alissa Jung ( born 1981 ).

Education and work

On the Protestant school in Siegen- Angsleah he began in 1986 as a teacher of German and Protestant Religion and employed as a sub-stages coordinator especially with new forms of cross-curricular teaching. In 1991 he was seconded as head teacher at the Evangelical School Center Leipzig to build an elementary, middle school and a high school in church-run. He directed this at the time, in Saxony -time cooperative comprehensive school until February 1999. Hilbk Young and Michael developed the new social diaconal profile of the middle school. A series of specialist publications date from this period. Jung was during Siegen and co-author of Leipzig teaching secondary school reading reading work from the Schroedel -Verlag.

Policy

Alderman of the city of Leipzig (1996-2006)

From 1999 to 2006 Jung was Assistant Secretary for Youth, school and sports, according to a management restructuring in April 2001, Assistant Secretary for Youth, Social, Health and School of the city of Leipzig. For the application of Leipzig for the 2012 Olympics he was two years of urban Olympia officer until he resigned in November 2003 from this post because of a commission payment to the marketing agency SCI and was relieved of his duties as Assistant stores. The affair scandalized the editor Jens Weinreich the Berliner Zeitung. After a month of leave and setting the prosecutor's preliminary investigation Jung came in December 2003, his service as Assistant again. From January 2006, Jung was also WM- commissioner of the city of Leipzig.

His focus as Assistant were the focus of sports in promoting sports, youth welfare planning in the context of subsidiarity numerous handoffs of daycare facilities in free sponsorship, the school development; Elderly care, disability assistance and social planning.

In 2000, he joined the SPD.

Mayor of Leipzig (since 2006)

After the official release of his predecessor Wolfgang Tiefensee, which was changed in November 2005 as the Minister of Transport to Berlin and Young ran for the office of Mayor of the city of Leipzig. After he missed the absolute majority in the first ballot, he was elected on 26 February 2006 a turnout of 31.7 % with 51.6 % of the vote on the new mayor of Leipzig and occupied the same position since March 29, 2006.

20 March 2006 to 26 October 2007 was Burkhard Jung, member of the Board of Directors of Landesbank Sachsen.

Since 2006, Leipzig, Burkhard Jung, Chairman of supply and transport mbH and chairman of the board of city and county Sparkasse Leipzig. He is a member of the supervisory boards of the Leipzig Fair and the European Energy Exchange.

Burkhard Jung is a member of the board of the European Network of Cities euro Cities, member of the board of the German Association of Cities and the Saxon Cities and Municipalities day SSG (since 2008 Vice President) since 2006. He is also Chairman of the Board of Felix Mendelssohn -Bartholdy Foundation.

Since November 2010, Jung is also responsible for numerous cultural institutions in the city of Leipzig. Opera, the Gewandhaus, Central Theater, Theater der Jungen Welt and music school he realized his Cultural Minister Michael Faber from surprising. The reason for this was the Lord Mayor of the faulty crisis management of his aldermen and initiated a deselection process against this. By a narrow majority, the City Council in early 2011 but decided in favor of keeping Michael Faber in the office of mayor culture. Also, in case a new election for mayor election in 2013, Jung will continue to serve the said device from city side and they do not return to the Cultural Office.

For the mayor election in 2013, he ran for a second term. His rival candidates were in addition to the non-party, nominated by the CDU previous police chief Horst Wawrzynski Felix Ekardt ( Green ), Barbara Hell (The Left ), René Hobusch (FDP ) and Dirk holiday ( party). There were no other candidates for the election permitted because the others had not reached the necessary number of signatures in support. A total of 13 people had wanted to run for office. In the second ballot on February 17, 2013 Young was re-elected with 45.0 %, which was well ahead of second-placed candidate Horst Wawrzynski ( 28.7 %).

Criticism

Property scandal " adoptable Land "

In early 2012 it was announced that the city of Leipzig, in particular the right office, land sold without in many cases, obtain information about who is the owner. At the beginning of the published procedures were dismissed as anecdotal. But in the meantime Jung had to admit, that has been dealt with in at least 157 cases, negligence with ownership stranger. The number of reports from property owners whose land was sold illegally through the city, however, is in the low double digits. OB Jung has acted and several employees of the Legislative Affairs Office on leave. Moreover, it was called a special project " Legal Representatives " launched by young, the working up of all the events of disposals supposedly unclaimed property. As a neutral person of trust for owners of illegal properties sold a former president of the Federal Administrative Court was appointed. Who will work closely with the Special Project.

In the meantime, victims have also been compensated by the city administration. The funds that have been established through the sale of these properties are not channeled into the city budget, but were booked from the beginning on suspense because these funds are still entitled also the previously unknown owners.

The media coverage of the events on sale supposedly orphan houses has sometimes also adopted strange traits. So a journalist was from the German Press Council issued a disapproval, because he did not shrink in the course of his research to try to set a town hall employee with the following statement under pressure: "I am writing now at a Spiegel article. And I do not think you want it to be the main person, right? "

Publications

• Ways of teaching renewal. In: 25 years of Lutheran High School of Church Siegen. Edited Lutheran High School, Siegen 1989.
• Hair / Jung / Treude: The two rainbows. In: Teaching renewal with Wagenschein and Comenius, attempts Protestant schools from 1985 to 1989. Ed Berg / Gerth / Potthast, Comenius Institute, Münster 1990.
• Book recommendations. In: reading, reading book for schools. Volumes 5-10, Schroedel educational publisher, 1991-1993.
• (Ed.): Evangelical School Center Leipzig - 5 years - attempt at a location determination. Leipzig 1996.
• (Ed.): Sky and heath. An ABC to questions of faith. Prepared by students from the Lutheran School Center Leipzig, Evangelical publishing house, Leipzig 1997.
• Foreword. In: Extreme right-wing youth: A shock to the society? Causes, expressions, prevention and intervention. Leipzig 2001.
• Visions of a sports town. In: Leipzig sporty. The sporting life of the city in the past, present and future. Leipzig 2002.