In the 2020 municipal election, the executive chair in the Starnberg district has to be filled. These are the candidates in the district election on March 15th.
- The incumbent district administrator Karl Roth will no longer stand in the 2020 local elections .
- There are six candidates for his successor.
- Stefan Frey (CSU) , Martina Neubauer (Greens) , Matthias Vilsmayer (FW) , Christiane Kern (SPD) , Cedric Muth (FDP ) and Markus Becher (AfD) .
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Who will succeed Karl Roth ? The CSU man, who was elected to office in 2008 and confirmed in 2014, no longer wants to run in the 2020 local elections. The 65-year-old is likely to become a district administrator again under the new age regulation for district administrators and mayors. "But I would like to put this challenging task in younger hands," he said, giving up his possible third term, at the end of which he would be almost 72 years old. Roth wants to focus more on the family, especially his granddaughters.
With which the executive chair in the Starnberg district office would be filled from May 2020. The choice is likely to be more exciting than in previous years. Stefan Frey (CSU) and Martina Neubauer (Greens ) are two political heavyweights who are considered favorites for a runoff. There are six candidates in the 2020 district election, so a runoff election seems fairly likely.
Here you will find all information about the district election 2020 in the district of Starnberg. You can find the latest news about the election in the news ticker for the district of Starnberg.
Stefan Frey (CSU) wants to succeed his father in the 2020 municipal election
Stefan Frey is the CSU candidate for the 2020 district election in Starnberg.
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At the suggestion of the district administrator Roth, the CSU district board unanimously voted in February 2019 for the Starnberg City Councilor Stefan Frey (44), one of the sons of the district administrator Heinrich Frey (80, serving from 1996 to 2008), to compete for the candidacy send. Stefan Frey worked for the government of Upper Bavaria and the Supreme Building Authority and is currently a close employee of Minister Joachim Herrmann in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior. In addition, he was the CSU chief in Starnberg and vice in the district association for many years.
As Frey reveals to the Starnberg Mercury , he was asked in December 2018 whether he wanted to run for the CSU , whereupon he discussed with his father and the current district administrator . Both confirmed him, whereupon he officially threw his hat in the ring. Above all, he sees work in the Starnberg City Council as a good school for the executive chair in the district office .
He has a lot of respect for the task. "The office of district administrator is becoming more and more demanding", Frey emphasized in an interview with the Starnberg Mercury . The citizens expected "quick services" and quick solutions to problems from the authorities. Frey is convinced that he can do this. "I can imagine it and I dare to."
As a district administrator, he would of course also have to work with Starnberg's mayor Eva John if this is confirmed in office when the mayor is elected. The relationship between the two is politically charged. Frey, however, wants to put aside personal feelings. “Whether it fits humanly or not is of secondary importance. It always has to be about the matter. "
In his application speech at the CSU constellation meeting in July 2019, the Starnberg resident was combative. After all, the municipal election on March 15, 2020 is not a “gmahde Oktoberfest”, as incumbent Karl Roth put it.
Frey, who would like to be his successor, emphasized in his application speech that the CSU had done a good job in the district office . He does not see that people and the district have to be fundamentally changed. Rather, one has to continue on the path, but reasonable, pragmatic and free of ideologies. Frey believes commercial areas are necessary, but not in sensitive areas. He wants to create a job for a volunteer coordinator and use the scope for work permits for refugees. Integration works best through work, which is "better than spending the day in an accommodation".
CSU candidate Stefan Frey positions himself as the opposite of the Greens . He likes to drive a car, many others would have to use the car, which is why he “does not want to put this mode of transport in the corner”. Public transport must make a better offer, only then will it be used. "We can't achieve anything with force," Frey warned. In addition to better public transport, well-developed roads are also needed, he says.
During a panel discussion by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce on the district election, Frey also brought up a regional train stop in Gauting so that commuters can get to Munich faster.
The 44-year-old, like Roth, is pursuing the line of maintaining small clinics in healthcare . When it comes to housing , he wants to encourage the communities to provide more building land. He considers apartments in or on commercial areas to be sensible. As a district administrator, he wants to talk to farmers to get land for leasehold, for example. Apartment building is more important than local models.
In principle, Frey pledged to support farmers , whether organic or not. One should not unilaterally impose environmental protection on the farmers, the “sculptors of our homeland”.
In addition, the CSU candidate in the district office wants to achieve a further digital expansion of the administration, quick approvals and "close personal contact".
Martina Neubauer wants to become a Green Landrat in Starnberg in 2020
Martina Neubauer (on the right with Greens faction leader Katharina Schulze) stands for the Greens in the 2020 district election in Starnberg.
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The first green district administrator in Germany: Wolfgang Rzehak, the head of the Miesbach district office, can already claim this historical fact for himself. But Martina Neubauer from Starnberg could become the first green district administrator in Germany after the 2020 municipal election. At an internal exam of the Greens district board in February 2019, the city council colleague of CSU applicant Stefan Frey announced her candidacy for the chief position in the district of Starnberg .
"The time is ripe for a strong green faction and a green district councilor," announced Neubauer at the assembly meeting of the district Greens for the 2020 local elections. And yes, she was "really keen to do that," she explained with a view to hers Ambitions as a district administrator.
She always has good chances of taking up the post of district administrator . The Greens are - in addition to their current national political highs - also strong in the district of Starnberg. In the 2014 local elections, the Greens were already in second place behind the CSU . Neubauer narrowly missed a direct mandate in the 2018 district election .
Neubauer therefore sees a "huge opportunity" for the success of the Greens in the 2020 district election . "We have achieved incredibly good results recently," she said to Starnberg Mercury after announcing her candidacy . As Neubauer also emphasized, she had a high level of awareness in the district and "most local political experience" of the possible opposing candidates.
The Starnberger works in the district office in Munich and has a lot of political experience as a city, district and district councilor . At the beginning of the year, she was again a candidate for mayor for her hometown Starnberg . Now she is striving for higher things in the 2020 local elections . The reason: Neubauer considers the success of the Greens in the district to be much more likely than in the district town with its fragmented party landscape.
In all likelihood there will be no election campaign between CSU man Frey and Greens woman Neubauer with hard bandages. As Frey emphasizes, both understand each other very well on a personal level. "But there are differences in the matter." Martina Neubauer also says: "It will be a very fair election campaign at eye level."
As a district administrator , she wants to ensure faster processing times in the district office : "It doesn't suit a modern service provider that you have to wait months for answers."
In line with her party, the Greens candidate rejects the planned industrial areas Schorn (Starnberg) and Unterbrunner Holz (Gauting). "If we carry out such massive interventions, it will be contrary to our climate protection goals," said Neubauer during a panel discussion at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Instead, it favors the development of existing areas, for example on the outskirts of Gauting.
In the housing question, Neubauer spoke in favor of building supermarkets or single-storey car parks with apartments in Munich.
With regard to traffic , Martina Neubauer wants to connect every location in the Starnberg district from 5 a.m. to midnight at least every hour on a bus route.
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Cedric Muth: The FDP candidate in the 2020 district election in Starnberg
Cedric Muth (3rd from left) competes for the FDP in the 2020 district election in Starnberg.
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With Cedric Muth (43), the FDP in the Starnberg district is also sending its own district council candidate to the 2020 local elections. Muth is single, childless and co-owner of a law firm in Gauting. As he emphasizes, he would certainly benefit from his legal training and additional administrative studies while working as head of the district office.
According to their district leader Britta Hundesrügge, the FDP in the district is experiencing a lively influx. The district board hopes that this tailwind will also help Cedric Muth to benefit from the 2020 district election . But first of all, Muth also knows, he has to make himself known. Because so far he had only held party offices, and had no mandate.
However, as Muth emphasized at the FDP's assembly meeting in September, he was an "old Starberger" and had been a member of the FDP since 1993, said the 43-year-old Muth. He knows the topics of the district and he knows how politics works.
His topics as a district council candidate range from the care situation to the economy, energy transition, transport, tourism expansion and climate change. According to Muth's own statement, it stands for greater public participation. And he wishes for the district of Starnberg "slow, sustainable growth with care".
During a panel discussion at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Muth addressed the problem of immissions that existed within the city. The candidate for the district government of the FDP very well advocates presenting inter-municipal industrial areas, as in the example of Inning / Wörthsee.
With regard to traffic , Cedric Muth supports an S-Bahn ring and the idea of integrating the ships on Lake Starnberg into the MVV's regular service.
District election 2020 in Starnberg: Christiane Kern stands for the SPD
Christiane Kern is the SPD candidate for the 2020 district election in Starnberg.
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In May 2019 Christiane Kern , who had already taken part in the state election in autumn 2018, was unanimously nominated by the SPD district board as a candidate for the district government. After the 2020 local elections, she also wants to join the district council and the Starnberg city council.
Criminal chief inspector Kern won over the district through her candidacy and moved to Starnberg in early 2019. She gave up her municipal political office in Munich. Although she was also approached for the list of city councils in Munich, where she would have better chances than in the district of Starnberg, she felt more comfortable in the district.
Despite the strength of the CSU and the Greens , SPD candidate Kern believes there are chances for the office of district administrator. SPD district chief Julia Ney has already announced a “motivated campaign team” for the candidate Kern.
The SPD district council candidate wants to campaign for more climate protection. Christiane Kern , who does not own a car, thinks of wind power, but also of ecological drives for buses and more cycle paths.
In the traffic situation Christiane Kern demands better clock connections, cross connections and a cycle path network.
When it comes to education, the SPD candidate relies on the schools to be taken over by the district of Starnberg , if desired. She sees a takeover as an opportunity to master digitization. Housing is a priority, and the SPD is putting the brakes on commercial development when it comes to exits from landscape protection. Services of general interest are number 4 in Christiane Kern's election program.
Like the other candidates, Christiane Kern wants the Starnberg district to be certified as a business-friendly district. "You run open doors for me there," said the SPD candidate at the IHK panel discussion.
With regard to housing, Kern talks about the vacant financial school in Herrsching for trainee apartments.
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Matthias Vilsmayer: The candidate of free voters for the 2020 district election in Starnberg
Matthias Vilsmayer competes for the free voters in the 2020 district election in Starnberg.
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After the announcement by the district administrator Karl Roth , that he would no longer run in 2020, there was a long speculation about who the free voters would put up for the district office. Two names appeared: Albert Luppart from Pöcking and district chairman Matthias Vilsmayer from Gilching.
At the end of June, the district board of free voters dealt with the issue of the candidate for the district administrator . And stood behind the screech chief Vilsmayer . A decision that not all FW local politicians were happy with. "We see the greater opportunities with Albert Luppart," said Tutzing Mayor Marlene Greinwald. Luppart dared to fight against Vilsmayer in July. The district chairman prevailed with 17 to 15 votes.
District administrator candidate Vilsmayer is 47 years old, married and the father of three daughters. According to his own statements, he does not assume that in March 2020 there will be a runoff election for Stefan Frey (CSU) and Martina Neubauer (Greens) . He was no less unknown than the two, and the FW had also gained approval through the government participation in Munich since the end of 2018. Vilsmayer also knows that it will be difficult: "There is still a lot of work to be done before the runoff ."
Like the other district council candidates , FW man Vilsmayer focuses on housing, climate protection and clinics. If he is elected, Vilsmayer wants to ensure “reliable reaction times” in the district office and “do not allow a prevention authority”. In a panel discussion at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce he spoke with regard to the district office “to develop what is necessary in close cooperation with industry”.
With regard to living space, he initially wants to focus on a development in the places. He also suggested that “maybe more compact and taller” and move parking spaces in underground garages.
The candidate for the district council of free voters also expects real estate and rental prices to rise further in the next ten years. "On the other hand, the only remedy is to designate more building land, compact it in urban areas and approve it faster," he said at the IHK event. At the same time, he also indicated that this would not be enough for the calculated influx.
At the annual general meeting of free voters in January 2020, Vilsmayer pointed out a possible debt of the district of 180 million euros through high school, hospitals, other schools and extension to the district office. Since the debt service is financed through the district levy, the municipalities' scope for action is reduced. The high school in Herrsching was "favorite project of some district councils" and "prestige project under the guise of education". The candidate for the district administrator of the free voters sees no endangered education without the new school in Herrsching. One would look "exactly at the cost", since the project in particular contains some imponderables due to the property.
Matthias Vilsmayer also wants to expand the fast cycle path network , as he emphasized during the IHK panel discussion. He also supports the S-Bahn stop at Weichselbaum.
The candidate for free voters is also the Vice President of TSV Gilching-Argelsried and is active in Romania aid. Professionally, he is the managing director of a nationwide consulting company.
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Markus Becher: The AfD candidate wants to become Starnberg district administrator in the 2020 local election
Markus Becher is an AfD candidate in the 2020 district election in Starnberg.
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He was the last of the six district council candidates to throw his hat in the ring: the computer scientist and mathematician Markus Becher (49) from Krailling is the AfD candidate for the 2020 district election was only founded at the end of 2019. He is married and has two children.
Becher has been a member of the AfD since 2013. He wants to win former CSU voters (which includes himself) for his party. Becher advocates direct democracy with referendums based on the Swiss model. He wants the citizens to be questioned, especially in the case of cost-intensive municipal projects.
The AfD candidate calls for investments in the infrastructure. According to its own statement, Becher stands for broadband expansion. He wants to close gaps in existing mobile networks and further expand cycle paths. These three measures served to "get traffic off the road".
Instead of paying social benefits, the state should rather enable people to work again. "We have high costs due to illegal mass immigration, that burns money." The AfD candidate would like to make these costs transparent at the local level.
With regard to the environment, Markus Becher believes that man-made climate change is an unproven claim. If there is climate change, it also offers opportunities, such as two harvests a year, according to the AfD candidate .
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2020 local election in Starnberg: Starnberg Merkur is asking the candidates for mayor's office in the Schlossberghalle for a panel discussion. The appointment is January 22nd.
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