Petra Roth
Petra Roth ( born May 9, 1944 in Bremen as Petra Martin ) is a German politician of the CDU. From 1995 to 30 June 2012, she was Mayor of Frankfurt am Main and in the years 1997-1999, 2002-2005 and 2009-2011 President of the German Association of Cities.
Life
Roth comes from a Bremen merchant family. After she left the Kippenberg Gymnasium with the completion of middle maturity, Roth trained as a medical assistant. She then graduated from the Commercial College. They then moved to Frankfurt am Main.
Roth is deemed interested in art and has, inter alia, the painting of the artist Rissa guard. She lives in the district of Frankfurt Nieder-Erlenbach, is a widow since 1994 and has two sons.
Political career
Roth joined in Frankfurt in 1972, the CDU. There she was first Social District Chairwoman and member of the city council. From 1987 to 1995 she was a member of the Hesse state parliament and from 1992 to 1995 leader of the CDU Frankfurt.
1995 Helmut Kohl asked Roth about to run for Lord Mayor of Frankfurt. She sat down at the direct election to Mayor of Frankfurt defeated the incumbent by Andreas Scholer (SPD ) by and was on 5 July 1995 as the first woman mayor of Frankfurt am Main.
In 2001, she won in the mayoral elections in the second round almost against her challenger, the former mayor Achim Vandreike (SPD). On 28 January 2007 she was re-elected with 60.5 % of the votes in the first ballot for a third term, but only with a voter turnout of 33.6 %. Your most promising opposition candidate Franz Frey (SPD ) received 27.5 % of votes.
At times, Roth was the successor of Johannes Rau for the office of President in the conversation. In March 2008, she was considered a potential Prime Minister of Hesse.
Because of their controversial views in the CDU for the establishment of Islam in Germany ( mosque ) on migration and integration issues and drug policy, it is attributed to the left wing of the CDU. Roth expressed his pride on interreligious dialogue in Frankfurt and the naturalization of more than 30,000 foreigners. Because of her presidential style it has also been criticized as "Sun Queen of the Romans mountain".
In 2011 she announced her resignation as Lord Mayor of Frankfurt July 1, 2012. The mayoral elections took place a year earlier than planned, on 25 March 2012, was chosen as her successor Peter Feldmann.
Following the resignation of President Christian Wulff on 17 February 2012 politician of the CSU Roth brought into the conversation as a possible successor before the Union parties agreed to Joachim Gauck as candidates.
She was more than once on a proposal from the Hessian CDU member of the Federal Assembly, as well as in the choice of the German President in 2004 and each subsequent presidential election, most recently at the election of the President of Germany, 2012.
Other offices and functions
Roth was from 1997 to 1999 and from 2003 to 2005 President of the German Association of Cities. Her successor from 2005 to 2009, the Mayor of Munich, Christian Ude, which they replaced in May 2009. 2011 Ude was again their successors and Roth Vice President until her retirement as Mayor of the City of Frankfurt. It belongs to the Committee of the Regions of the European Union.
She was a member of the supervisory board of the airport operator Fraport and chairman of Messe Frankfurt, the Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main, the Rhine -Main Transport Association and the construction company ABG Frankfurt Holding during her tenure.
Honors
- In 2001 she was nominated for her contributions to the German - French friendship Officer of the French Legion of Honour.
- In 2005 she received from the University of Tel Aviv, the "Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa " for their promotion of academic and cultural relations between the twin cities of Tel Aviv and Frankfurt am Main.
- 2010 she was awarded the Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul honorary doctorate for her international political work.
- In 2012 she received as before as Thomas Bernhard or Martin Walser Julius Campe - Prize.
- 2012 it is awarded the Konrad Adenauer Prize of the City of Cologne.