Mayor Election 2020 in Ingolstadt: Which OB candidates are running in the local elections and with which projects are they fighting for votes?
- The local elections will take place in Bavaria on March 15, 2020 .
- The CSU has been the mayor of Ingolstadt since 1972.
- Mayor Christian Lösel (CSU) is standing for election again.
- The preliminary results from Ingolstadt * will be announced in the evening, as will the results of the national elections *.
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Ingolstadt - Bavaria's youngest city, fifth largest city in the Free State, and one of the fastest growing cities in Germany: Ingolstadt has been governed by a CSU mayor for more than 45 years. The hometown of Horst Seehofer is also suffering from the automotive crisis - Audi is the largest employer in Ingolstadt. The Federal Minister of the Interior also expressed concern in the press about the problems with cultural buildings such as the Museum of Concrete Art and Design and the Kammerspiele for the city theater.
In the last local elections in 2014, the CSU in Ingolstadt won 44.6 percent, more than twice as much as the SPD with 19.4 percent. Free voters and Greens came to 10.8 and 10.1 percent. From 2002 to 2014 Alfred Lehmann (CSU) was mayor of the city. He has been on trial for suspected corruption since autumn 2019. Polls from Ingolstadt * assume a tighter result than six years ago.
At the same time, a new city council is elected *. Merkur.de has summarized for you how to fill out the ballot correctly, where you can apply for postal voting * and what you need the notification for *.
The Ingolstadt election committee approved nine election proposals for the 2020 local election for the OB election. Merkur.de * interviewed the OB candidates .
Local Election Ingolstadt - The CSU candidate for the mayor: Christian Lösel
Christian Lösel (CSU Ingolstadt)
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Christian Lösel was born in Munich, spent his school days in Ingolstadt and then studied business administration at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . Lösel is married, has two children and works as a tax advisor . Among other things, he is the city's integration officer, president of the Ingolstadt ice sports and roller-skate club and the supervisory board of the Ingolstadt transport company.
The 44-year-old is now running for the CSU as OB candidate for Ingolstadt, and said to merkur.de * : “I want us Ingolstadt to be able to rightly say in the future: 'We are doing better than anywhere else, our children have the best prospects for the future and our location is always a step ahead of other locations! '. ”That is why he and his team want to do everything they can to ensure that the high quality of life continues to increase and that“ the best social, ecological and economic living conditions ”prevail in Ingolstadt .
In the run-up to the election, Lösel did not always cut a good figure. A party member's posting even caused a real scandal.
Local Election Ingolstadt - The SPD's OB candidate: Christian Scharpf
Christian Scharpf (SPD Ingolstadt)
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Christian Scharpf , born in 1971, grew up in Ingolstadt and in the Eichstätt district, and has a Roman Catholic faith. He is married with three children and works as a lawyer . 100 percent of the SPD delegates in Ingolstadt voted for him as OB candidate. "Ingolstadt needs a political fresh start after 48 years of CSU-OBs," said Scharpf to Merkur.de * . "After the Lehmann / Lösel years, there were violent disputes in the city council. I want more together rather than against each other and I want Ingolstadt to have a new political style and a new political culture that reconciles instead of divides. It is time for a fresh wind of political renewal to move into Ingolstadt, ”he continued.
Local Election Ingolstadt - The candidate for Alliance 90 / The Greens: Petra Kleine
Petra Kleine (Green Ingolstadt)
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Petra Kleine is an editor and an independent project manager . The married mother of two daughters is chairwoman of the parliamentary group of the Green Ingolstadt and said about her candidacy as a OB that the climate was important to her in two ways. On the one hand, she wishes for a “human and cosmopolitan” Ingolstadt, on the other hand “sustainable business” and “intact nature”.
The Greens Ingolstadt therefore make sure that "quiet voices" are heard - there is no place for "right-wing slogans", says the 59-year-old to Merkur.de *. “We are driven by climate change. It is time for profound change. ”Only together with the critical citizens can one make the technological change in the economy and climate protection socially fair, so that“ necessary changes ”become“ future opportunities ”. Specifically, Petra Kleine introduces herself: among other things, getting green rings as fresh air aisles, more car-free areas in the city center, strengthening regional agriculture , "100 percent" renewable energies - and no fourth Danube crossing .
Local Election Ingolstadt - The OB candidate of the free voters: Hans Stachel
Hans Stachel (Free voters Ingolstadt)
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"As an independent master craftsman and business economist, I have both an insight into the realities of life for many people and an insight into the economic context in our city," says Hans Stachel to Merkur.de *. In the 2020 local elections in Bavaria, he runs for the free voters of Ingolstadt as a candidate for the OB. The free voters Ingolstadt want to drive a fourth Danube crossing as a tunnel. Regarding the current Kammerspiele debate, Stachel said: “Kammerspiele at all costs? Not with me. ”The project had to remain in budget planning. "The renovation of the city theater is rated with higher priority for me."
The free voter politician wants to further develop local public transport, maintain the green rings in Ingolstadt and work "against radical views" and for an "ideology-free policy". "Securing the basic supply in municipal hands is important, just like sound housekeeping."
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Local election Ingolstadt - the OB candidate of the ÖDP: Raimund Köstler
Raimund Köstler (ÖDP Ingolstadt)
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Raimund Köstler , born in 1963, works as an IT architect and has been a member of the Ingolstadt City Council for the ÖDP since 2017. He is spokesman for the city council group. "Indispensable" for Ingolstadt is "respectful cooperation" in the city council: "Since the Lehmann case, transparency and openness have been more important than ever," said Köstler to 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."
The ÖDP is committed to "preserving rural agriculture" and more independence from the automotive industry. In addition, they want to buy back the Ingolstadt municipal utility to enable them to phase out nuclear and coal power. Köstler also warned of the risks of 5G and artificial intelligence (AI).
The OB candidate for the Ingolstadt Community (BGI): Christian Lange
Christian Lange (Ingolstadt Community BGI)
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Christian Lange was already a candidate for OB in 2014 for the Ingolstadt Community (BGI) . The 53-year-old lawyer and management consultant is the BGI parliamentary group chairman and showed himself to be aggressive in a conversation with Merkur.de *: “In Ingolstadt, some of the citizens have lost confidence in local politics. Corruption scandals, a lack of transparency and insufficient public participation are the reasons for this. "
What are Christian Lange's proposed solutions before the 2020 local elections in Bavaria? “In Ingolstadt's local politics, we need a lot 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 . ”
The OB candidate of the association "Independent Democrats of Ingolstadt" (UDI): Jürgen Köhler
Jürgen Köhler (Ingolstadt Independent Democrats)
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Jürgen Köhler is the UDI candidate for the post of Mayor of Ingolstadt. He is also in list position 1 for the city council. In 2017 he was a co-founder of the "Independent Democrats of Ingolstadt" (UDI). Until the end of 2019, he headed the Ingolstadt Cultural Office . One of his concerns for Ingolstadt is the improvement of local public transport and the cycle path network . He regards the renovation of the school facilities and the sports facilities in Ingolstadt as "long overdue". “The focus should not be on the long-standing 'pressure to save', but on the sustainability of our actions,” said the 65-year-old to Merkur.de * .
"The Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt is one of the most renowned orchestras in Germany," continued Köhler. The city of Ingolstadt had to pay the orchestra members a wage in line with the tariff. In addition, Köhler pleads for the renovation of the Ingolstadt City Theater and the early construction of the Kammerspiele "for the preservation of theater culture in our city".
He also calls for the founding of a youth parliament with its own right to vote and propose to the city council: "'Fridays for Future' have for many months provided impressive proof of the need to involve young people, not just in terms of nature and environmental protection."
Local Election Ingolstadt - The OB candidate for the FDP: Jakob Schäuble
Jakob Schäuble (FDP Ingolstadt)
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Jakob Schäuble is a member of the FDP state board and is now recommended to Ingolstadt as OB. "Ingolstadt must become better known and visible as a city," said Schäuble to Merkur.de * . This is because that would bring more "economic diversity" for Ingolstadt - and "significantly more" job prospects for its residents.
The 36-year-old is pursuing increased independence from the automotive industry, and points out that the hospital is the second largest employer for Ingolstadt. That is why it needs to be developed into a university hospital: "This means both better medical care and exciting jobs." Schäuble is a research assistant at the Chair for Business Ethics and Social Policy in Ingolstadt and also focuses on the area of design: "Especially in the Cooperation with the automotive industry and flanked by the digital start-up center 'brigk' and the new museum magnet for concrete art. We need a bolder art, design and cultural scene that also includes architecture and communication, ”said the married father of three children to Merkur.de * .
Local Election Ingolstadt - The candidate for the left: Christian Pauling
Christian Pauling (Die Linke Ingolstadt)
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Christian Pauling from Ingolstadt is a candidate for OB for Die Linke . The 28-year-old graphic designer lived in Berlin for about eight years, where he did his civil service in the field of environmental protection before moving back home. He is now studying political science and sociology at the Catholic University of Ingolstadt-Eichstätt. In the Bavarian state election campaign in 2018, he worked on a voluntary basis for top candidate Eva Bulling-Schröter and for Bundestag member Eva Schreiber.
“It is important to me to be proud again of advancing our region and politics with creative ideas. We have seen corruption, environmental sins and rapidly increasing rents in recent years, ”said Pauling, whose role models are Sarah Wagenknecht and Gregor Gysi, to Merkur.de * . “It is urgent to make a U-turn here. Not only because of the existential climate crisis, but also to maintain our social peace. The central components for me are a housing policy modeled on Vienna, a green new deal that sets standards in climate policy and an expansion of local democracy with digital opportunities for participation. I'm fighting for a new beginning, sustainable innovation and a social policy from the cradle to the bar. ”
To take to the polling station: Our cheat sheet for the local election in Bavaria 2020 as a PDF file for download and printing .
Results of the 2020 local elections will be available on Sunday, March 15, 2020 , from Merkur.de *. A separate ticker from Munich * keeps you up to date on the developments in the state capital. In advance you will find detailed reports on candidates, lists and all current developments.
2020 local elections: cities and municipalities elect new leaders
In the municipal elections, the mayor is also elected in other cities and municipalities. The ticker for local elections in Bavaria * gives you a great overview. Merkur.de * has listed the candidates for some cities:
- Munich
- Nuremberg
- augsburg
- regensburg
- Passau
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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