Which candidates for the Ingolstadt city council prevailed in the 2020 local elections? An overview of the top candidates.
- In Ingolstadt, the city council will be determined on March 15, 2020 for the next six years.
- There are 50 mandates to be awarded in the 2020 municipal election in Bavaria * in the Danube city.
- The preliminary results of the nationwide elections * will be announced on election evening, including results from Ingolstadt *.
+++ Results of the mayoral elections +++
+++ Results of the city and local council elections +++
Ingolstadt - Every Ingolstadt citizen who is eligible to vote will soon have quite a few crosses to award: The Ingolstadt city council, including the mayor (OB), has 51 members. The OB will also be elected in 2020 *.
The CSU is currently the most represented with 20 seats, followed by the SPD with nine seats. Green and Free voters each have five mandates, Ingolstadt's Independent Democrats (UDI) occupy four seats, the ÖDP and Die Linke two each, and the FDP one. The AfD did not officially move into the city council in the past local elections, but in the meantime a city councilor from the Republicans switched to the AfD. According to a poll before the local elections in Ingolstadt *, 2020 will see a tighter result.
Merkur.de * keeps her up to date in the ticker for the 2020 municipal election * and has also spoken to the top candidates on the lists that will run for the Ingolstadt 2020 city council election.
Local elections in Ingolstadt: top candidate of the Left Party for the city council - Eva Bulling-Schroeter
Eva Bulling-Schroeter (Die Linke Ingolstadt)
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The left will start in Ingolstadt 2020 with a double leadership. Christian Pauling is the youngest OB candidate in the constituency, and Eva Bulling-Schröter is an experienced top candidate for the city council of Regensburg. From 1994 to 2002 and from 2005 to 2017 was a member of the Bundestag. From 2007 to 2016 and since 2018, she also held the regional chair of the Left in Bavaria. Joined the DKP in 1974, changed to the PDS in 1990, which then became Die Linke in 2007. Bulling-Schröter has been the country's spokeswoman for Bavaria since 2018.
The ecologist and former works councilor campaigns for herself with a “socio-ecological reconstruction that takes the employees along and does not exclude the weaker.” In her opinion, the biggest problem in Ingolstadt is “the clarification of the many corruption cases in connection with the former OB” and the parties involved . "Therefore, the new city council needs transparency and a new way of thinking, which prevents such machinations once and for all and also draws the consequences," said the 63-year-old city council candidate to Merkur.de * .
In addition, she wants to act consistently against climate change, which for her is not just a “youth issue”, “but the task of the entire city society”. In addition to care, affordable housing and the abolition of old-age poverty as well as precarious employment and temporary employment are on her agenda.
Local election Ingolstadt: top candidate of the AfD for the city council - Lukas Rehm
Lukas Rehm (AfD Ingolstadt)
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Lukas Rehm competes for the AfD Ingolstadt. The 30-year-old has lived in Ingolstadt for more than five years and works in the HR department of an Ingolstadt company. Rehm joined the AfD in 2015. In the Ingolstadt city council, the candidate would campaign for "reestablishing a conservative and liberal policy in our country." That is precisely why local politics are important to him.
For Ingolstadt, the goal, according to Rehm to Merkur.de * , "is to get a left-wing CSU along with its clone called 'Free voters' back on the right path through the sheer presence of a strong AfD in the city council." He sees himself primarily as a “servant of the citizens of Ingolstadt” in order to make the city fit for the challenges of the future in the next six years: “I will approve objectively reasonable applications, regardless of which political camp they come from.”
Local election Ingolstadt: top candidate of the UDI for the city council - Jürgen Köhler
Jürgen Köhler (Ingolstadt Independent Democrats)
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In 2017, Jürgen Köhler co-founded the political association " Independent Democrats of Ingolstadt " (UDI), which will be running for the first time in a 2020 municipal election in Nuremberg - with Köhler as OB candidate and at the top of her list of city councils. The 65-year-old headed the cultural office in Ingolstadt at the end of 2019. If he moves into the city council or even becomes OB, he wants to improve local public transport and the cycle path network in Ingolstadt. It is also important to him that school facilities and sports facilities are renovated - he calls it "long overdue". "The focus should not be on the long-standing 'pressure to save', but on the sustainability of our actions," said Köhler to Merkur.de * .
Another Köhler idea: The founding of a youth parliament with its own right to vote and to propose in the city council: "'Fridays for Future' have provided impressive proof of the need to involve young people not only in the area of nature and environmental protection for many months."
Since he comes from the cultural scene, it is not surprising what is still on the agenda of the top candidate for the city council: paying the orchestra members of the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt, which is one of the "most renowned orchestras in Germany", a wage in line with the tariff. He also advocates a renovation of the Ingolstadt City Theater and "for the preservation of theater culture in our city" the early construction of the Kammerspiele.
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Local elections in Ingolstadt: top candidate of the Junge Union for the city council - Markus Meyer
Markus Meyer (Young Union Ingolstadt)
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The top candidate of the Junge Union for the Ingolstadt city council is Markus Meyer . He was Chairman of the Junge Union from 2012 to 2019. He has been a member of the Ingolstadt City Council since 2014. The consultant for social and social policy at the "Association of Bavarian Business" has a doctorate in history.
Meyer was born in 1987 and wants to further develop Ingolstadt as a "sports city", including through a full-time sports officer, through "multifunctional sports venues" where established and new sports are offered and a cross-club "sports card".
On the subject of living space, he said to Merkur.de * : "Higher, faster, more local!" The Junge Union Ingolstadt wanted to adapt the development plans so that the number of floorspace in the inner-city area and in new district areas is increased, the processing times for building applications are shortened and "Activate brownfields instead of sealing green areas". In addition, the “local model” should also be applied to the allocation of condominiums in urban hands.
In the 2020 municipal election in Bavaria, Markus Meyer is promoting himself and his party by implementing concrete measures by 2023, improving access to the northern bank promenade of the Danube, creating attractive seating there and establishing bathing access on the south bank.
Local elections in Ingolstadt: top candidate of the Greens for the city council - Petra Kleine
Petra Kleine (Green Ingolstadt)
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The parliamentary group leader of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Ingolstadt city council is standing for election as OB candidate and list leader. Petra Kleine , who works as an editor and freelance project manager, is married and has two daughters. Climate is her topic: firstly, she wants a "human and cosmopolitan" Ingolstadt, secondly, "sustainable management" and "intact nature", explained the 59-year-old Merkur.de * . "It is time for profound change."
The Greens in Ingolstadt want to ensure that "soft voices" are heard - there is no place for "right-wing slogans". Petra Kleine wants "together with the critical citizens" to make technology change in the economy and climate protection "socially just". "Necessary changes" should become "future opportunities". Kleine advocates getting green rings as fresh air aisles, creating more car-free areas in the city center of Ingolstadt and strengthening regional agriculture. She is firmly against a fourth Danube crossing and would like to switch to 100 percent renewable energies.
Local election Ingolstadt: top candidate of the CSU for the city council - Christian Lösel
Christian Lösel (CSU Ingolstadt)
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The current mayor of Ingolstadt, Christian Lösel , was born in Munich, but spent his school days in Ingolstadt and then studied business administration to work as a tax consultant. In addition to OB, the CSU politician is also the city's integration officer, president of the Ingolstadt ice sports and roller skate club and sits on the Ingolstadt Transport Company's board of directors. The 44-year-old is married and has two children. In the 2020 local elections, he also tops the list of the CSU for the city council in Ingolstadt.
"I want us in the future to be able to rightly say to Ingolstadt: 'We are better off than anywhere else, our children have the best chances for the future and our location is always a step ahead of other locations!", Lösel said to Merkur.de * . He and his party wanted to work to further increase the "high quality of life" of the city and to create the "best social, ecological and economic living conditions".
In the run-up to the election, Lösel not only made positive headlines. A party member's posting on Facebook even caused a real scandal.
Local election Ingolstadt: top candidate of the free voters for the city council - Hans Stachel
Hans Stachel (Free voters Ingolstadt)
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The independent master craftsman and business economist Hans Stachel competes for the free voters Ingolstadt as the top candidate for the city council in the local elections in Bavaria. His job gave him both "insight into the realities of life of many people" and "an eye for the economic context in our city", he said to Merkur.de * . His party was "against radical views" and for an "ideology-free policy".
"Securing basic services in local government is important, just like sound housekeeping," he said. Stachel wants to further develop local public transport and maintain the green rings in Ingolstadt. His party also advocates a fourth Danube crossing as a tunnel. Stachel has a clear opinion on the current Kammerspiele debate: “Kammerspiele at all costs? Not with me. ”The project should not exceed the budget - and the renovation of the city theater was a higher priority for him.
Local election Ingolstadt: top candidate of the SPD for the city council - Christian Scharpf
Christian Scharpf (SPD Ingolstadt)
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"Ingolstadt needs a political fresh start after 48 years of CSU-OBs," Christian Scharpf told Merkur.de * . 100 percent of the delegates from the SPD Ingolstadt voted for him as an OB candidate - he is also the first candidate on the list for the city council. After the "Lehmann / Lösel years" there were "violent disputes" in the city council of Ingolstadt, he explained.
He wants "more together instead of against each other" and a "new political culture that reconciles instead of divides". The lawyer, born in 1971, grew up in Ingolstadt and in the Eichstätt district, is married and has three children. He is Roman Catholic.
Local election Ingolstadt: top candidate of the ÖDP for the city council - Raimund Köstler
Raimund Köstler (ÖDP Ingolstadt)
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IT architect Raimund Köstler has been on the Ingolstadt City Council for the ÖDP since 2017. He is the top candidate for the city council election. A "respectful cooperation" in the city council is important: "Transparency and openness have been required more than ever since the Lehmann case," said Köstler zu Merkur.de * . The city must strive for "qualitative instead of quantitative" growth. "The Glacis, the second green ring and the floodplain are to be preserved."
Raimund Köstler, born in 1963, is also spokesman for the ÖDP city council group. His party is committed to more independence from the automotive industry and the "preservation of rural agriculture". In order to make it possible to phase out nuclear and coal electricity, the parliamentary group wants to buy back the Ingolstadt municipal utility. Köstler also warns of the risks of 5G and artificial intelligence (AI).
Local election Ingolstadt: top candidate of the BGI for the city council - Christian Lange
Christian Lange (Ingolstadt Community BGI)
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Christian Lange already has experience as a candidate in Ingolstadt. In 2014 he was in the race for the Ingolstadt Community (BGI). He is running again in 2020 and is the BGI's top candidate in the city council election. “In Ingolstadt, some of the citizens have lost confidence in local politics. Corruption affairs, a lack of transparency and insufficient public participation are the reasons for this, ”the 53-year-old criticized the current situation in the city against merkur.de * .
What are Christian Lange's proposed solutions? “In Ingolstadt's local politics we need much more transparency through a council information system, in which the minutes are also stored, and through a modern and accessible live stream with a well-structured media library. And we need real and decision-making citizen participation. ”
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For election day, we recommend you download and print out our cheat sheet for the Bavaria 2020 local elections as a PDF file. We have also compiled detailed information on filling out the ballot *, postal vote * and voting notification * under the relevant link.
All information and dates for the 2020 local elections in Bavaria can be found here *. Results of the 2020 municipal election will be available on Sunday, March 15, 2020, from Merkur.de. * You will find detailed reports on candidates, lists and all current developments from us in advance.
The race for the city council in other Bavarian cities
March 15 is not only in Ingolstadt, but throughout Bavaria local elections, for example in Munich *. Merkur.de * has also compiled the parties and their candidates for these cities:
- Munich Nuremberg
- augsburg
- regensburg
- Passau
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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