The 87-year-old moves up to the local council.
He brings almost 50 years of community council experience with him.
Haar - The long-time SPD councilor Horst Wiedemann returns to the Haar council.
In the local elections in 2020, the now 87-year-old missed the re-entry into the body.
But now Manuela Fürnrieder resigned her mandate for family reasons.
The comeback for Wiedemann on Haar's political stage.
Wiedemann knows local politics in Haar better than anyone else - he was a member of the local council for almost 50 years.
He has been part of the committee since 1972, except for a two-year hiatus in the late 1970s.
With 2,438 votes in the previous municipal council election, he was eliminated.
Now, after a year of abstinence, Wiedemann is back at the council table.
“Of course I was happy,” he says.
However, he was also "a bit scared" - given his age.
But is Wiedemann too old for the local council at 87?
But is Wiedemann too old for the local council at 87?
"Up until now I have been imagining that I can handle it," he says.
He does not know what will be in "two or three years".
If he can no longer fill the office, he "of course" resigns, he says.
"At the moment things are going very well." The retired grammar school director has made political support for the schools in Haar high on the flag.
Cultural issues are also close to his heart.
From now on, the social democrat will represent his parliamentary group in the main, environment and works committees.
At his debut meeting, Horst Wiedemann was immediately confronted with a political issue: the naming of the space between the community center and the Poststadl.
After a public survey, the local council decided on the name “Haarer Anger” - against the citizen's favorite “Postwiesn”.
Wiedemann was against the designation
Wiedemann voted together with two other councilors against the naming of the place.
“I think it is unacceptable that the place is an anger.
It's nothing more than a grill area on the lid of the underground car park, ”he says.
Wiedemann voted for "Nikolausplatz".
“I would have liked a historical name,” he says.
21 percent of the citizens surveyed had voted for “Nikolausplatz”.
The name Postwiesn received the most votes.
"I did not disregard the vote of the community population," he says.
