Wolfgang Schuster

Wolfgang Schuster ( born September 5, 1949 in Ulm) was from January 1997 to January 2013 mayor of Stuttgart ( CDU). He was the successor of Manfred Rommel and the predecessor of Fritz Kuhn in this office.

  • 3.1 National functions and offices until January 2013
  • 3.2 European and International

Life

Schuster made ​​1968/1969 his military service at the Mountaineer Battalion 221 in Mittenwald. He retired as a reserve officer candidates. Then he studied from 1969 to 1973 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Geneva and Freiburg im Breisgau law and political sciences. During his studies he became a member of the AV Guestfalia Tübingen in the CV. From 1974 to 1976 he spent his clerkship in Ulm and a doctorate in civil law. From 1976 to 1977 he studied at the École nationale d'administration (ENA ). From 1975 to 1980 he was responsible for the CDU in the Ulm city council. From 1978 to 1980 he was Speaker of the State Ministry of Baden- Württemberg under the Prime Minister Hans Filbinger and Lothar Späth. In 1980 he became head of the Personal Unit Mayor of Stuttgart, Manfred Rommel. 1986-1993 he was mayor of Schwäbisch Gmünd, then to January 1997 Mayor for Culture, Education and Sports of the City of Stuttgart. From January 1997 to January 2013 was a shoemaker Lord Mayor of Stuttgart. He is currently Director of the Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (I- NSE) in Stuttgart. Schuster is married since 1979, has three children and three grandchildren.

Lord Mayor of Stuttgart

Term of office I

In the election for Mayor of Stuttgart Schuster was able to prevail with 43.1% against the candidate of the Green Party, Rezzonico hose ( 39.3 %) in the second ballot on 10 November 1996.

Term II

On October 24, 2004 Schuster was confirmed in the second ballot with 53.3 % in office. His competitors were Boris Palmer ( Alliance 90/The Greens ), who withdrew his candidacy after the first ballot and then indirectly expressed for Schuster and Ute Kumpf (SPD ) with 45.2% in the second ballot.

Political Work

Schuster has set its policy priorities in the areas of education, demographics, building and industry promotion. In addition to the issues of security and mobility Schuster makes always strong for the child friendliness in his city. Moreover, its migrants and integration policy is exemplary. Thus he speaks of the need for a " respectful culture of welcome " towards foreigners and keeps the same formalities as the nationality irrelevant for the urban coexistence. With the establishment of the Round Table of Religions he sat for interreligious dialogue in the state capital characters.

Stuttgart 21

Another focus of his work is to promote the railway and urban project Stuttgart 21, which provides for the reconstruction of the Stuttgart main station to an underground through station and the design of the new downtown district Rosenstein. In the 2004 election campaign Schuster had promised to support a referendum on the project if the state capital Stuttgart " to a considerable extent " would participate financially. This is exactly but Shoemaker 's view have never been the case. Schuster justified his decision by saying that the additional costs for the city of Stuttgart expected to be only 84 million euros and he was to have agreed with Boris Palmer in the former OB- election campaign that costs were " clearly in the three-digit million euro range " meant. Schuster was one of the seven proponents of the Stuttgart 21 project, who spoke at the moderated by Heiner Geissler conciliation talks for Stuttgart 21 .. In addition, he also participated in the stress test for the performance of the through station part. At this event, OB Schuster announced the formation of the " Citizens' Forum Stuttgart 21" known.

Waiver of third term

On January 9, 2012 Schuster announced that he would not run for a third term as mayor in Stuttgart. As He argued that Stuttgart excellent standing there in comparison with other large cities, and the project must be accompanied Stuttgart 21 for eight years. For reasons of age Schuster should have run only a part of the third term. With the January 6, 2013 Wolfgang Schuster's ended tenure as mayor of Stuttgart.

Memberships and Functions

Schuster was founded in October on the future of Europe the EU, which drew 2010 long-term prospects for Europe 2008 Member of the Council of Elders until May 8.

Schuster is chairman of numerous international networks such as Cities for Mobility and Cities for Children, vice president of municipal World Association " United Cities and Local Governments " ( UCLG - UCLG ) and since 2010 President of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions. He is also President of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions German section ( CEMR).

National functions and offices until January 2013

  • Chairman of the Stuttgart trams AG
  • Chairman of the Transport and Tariff Association Stuttgart GmbH
  • Deputy Chairman of Supervisory Board of Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH
  • Chairman of the purpose association for regional water supply
  • Chairman of Consorzio Lake Constance Water Supply
  • Deputy Chairman of the Guarantors' Meeting and the Board of Directors of Landesbank Baden- Württemberg ( LBBW)
  • Chairman of the Credit Committee of LBBW
  • Member of the Broadcasting Board of SWR
  • Member of the Association meeting the Stuttgart region
  • Board member of the Association of Cities of Baden- Württemberg
  • Deputy President of the German Association of Cities

European and International

  • President of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), German section, Cologne
  • President of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), Brussels
  • Vice - President and Chairman of the European section of the municipal World Association
  • Chair of the UCLG Committee on Urban Mobility
  • Member of the Reflection Group Europe 2020 - 2030 ( appointed by the European Council of 27 Heads of State and Government )
  • Chairman Cities for Mobility
  • Chairman Cities for Children
  • Vice President of the municipal World Association " United Cities and Local Governments " ( UCLG - UCLG ) and
  • Since 2010 President of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR)

Honors and Awards

2004 Schuster was awarded by the Initiative for a New Social Market Economy as second best mayor in Germany and Stuttgart, as reform- under 50 German cities. Wolfgang Schuster was awarded the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden -Württemberg in 2005. He received on 5 September 2009, the Staufer Medal of the State of Baden- Württemberg in gold. Wolfgang Schuster received 2 June 2010 the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy for a three years ago launched from him "exemplary initiative to improve the educational opportunities of Italian students ." In addition, an honorary professorship he was awarded by Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann. The City Council of the City of Stuttgart, at its meeting on December 20, decided to appoint Schuster honorary citizen. The honorary citizenship was awarded to him on January 5 at the official adoption. 2013 Schuster is being honored for his contributions to a modern integration policy and an international urban society with the undoped prize of Manfred Rommel Award from German -Turkish Forum Stuttgart. On November 13, 2013, Wolfgang Schuster, has been honored for his services as Lord Mayor of the city of Stuttgart to the transculturation of the Society for dialogue Baden-Württemberg with the medal for transculturality.

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