Zolling's former mayor Max Riegler has now been honored for his services to local politics.
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- He received the certificate of thanks for special services to local self-government in 2008.
Now Max Riegler (67) has also received the municipal medal of merit in bronze (we reported) - recognition for 30 years of “service” in the Zolling municipal council.
The FT took a closer look at Riegler's career in local politics.
In May 1990, Riegler began to work in the local council and for the community of Zolling. In his first term of office, Riegler acts as a deputy association councilor in the school association, as an association councilor of VG Zolling and as a member of the audit committee. After he was re-elected to the local council for the CSU in 1996, Riegler takes on the post of 2nd mayor, is also active as an association councilor (or deputy) in VG Zolling, in the school association and in the Baumgarten and Paunzhausen water associations, and also sits on the building committee . He has held this post even after his third election to the local council, and has a seat in the planning association for the outer economic area of Munich, in the regional planning association, in the aircraft noise commission and in the protection community north.
In 2008 he was elected first mayor of the municipality of Zolling - an office that he will fill until April 2020.
The list of projects and construction measures that Max Riegler was responsible for during his twelve years as community leader is long.
"With great active commitment and extremely committed, conscientious, competent, prudent and foresighted, Mr. Max Riegler has carried out the office of First Mayor for the past twelve years," says the laudatory speech and the reason for the award.
And: "With his objective manner and convincing drive, he did a lot for the good development of the Zolling community."
The list of Max Riegler's achievements is long
The following is a two-page list of the most important measures: The expansion of the Zolling town hall is mentioned, as well as the replacement of the Flitzing fire station, the upgrading of the Zolling and Appersdorf sewage treatment plants, and the establishment of the Zolling secondary school, which is very important. The improvement of the broadband supply is also on the list of projects implemented under Riegler, such as the replacement building and renovation of the parish kindergarten, the new building and renovation of the morgues in Palzing, the redesign of the church forecourt in Zolling, the replacement of the central building at the school, the cemetery expansion in Zolling, various sewer repairs in the municipality or the creation of holiday care in Zolling.
The Riegler era also included the development of the Zolling-Ost industrial park, the demolition and construction of a new hall at the Zollinger building yard, and the realization of the homeless shelter in Oberzolling.
One year after Riegler no longer continued his office as First Mayor of Zolling because he no longer ran for the 2020 election, he has now been awarded the municipal medal of merit in bronze by Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann.
