Michael Groth takes over the management of the Gauting town hall
Created: 01/15/2022 10:42 am
By: Oliver Puls
Change of staff in the Gauting town hall: Dr.
Michael Groth becomes the new managing director and thus the right hand of Mayor Dr.
Brigitte Koessinger.
© Photographer: Andrea Jaksch
Gauting – 18 years in Bavaria, four and a half years in the Gauting town hall: Managing Director Maike Wendt is drawn back to her home country of Schleswig-Holstein.
"The homesickness is too great," she said at the farewell talk.
Her successor has already been chosen: the 34-year-old lawyer Dr.
On February 1st, Michael Groth takes over the management of the Gauting town hall.
Mayor Dr.
Brigitte Kössinger sat in the town hall on Tuesday with a "laughing and crying eye".
Saying goodbye to Maike Wendt is difficult for her, after all the position of manager is a position of trust.
The chemistry between the political office of mayor and the highest position in local government has to be right.
A lawyer becomes his successor
Maike Wendt leaves the 21,000-inhabitant community in the Würmtal with the destination Bad Bramstedt in the Holstein Auenland.
There she found a job in the local government, her husband works in another small town.
"I'm really only going because of homesickness," repeats Maike Wendt.
"For me, home is where you still say 'Moin' in the evening."
In addition to the many people she met during her time in Bavaria and especially in Gauting, she will miss hiking and the proximity to the mountains.
Also a non-Bavarian is her successor Dr.
Michael Groth.
The 34-year-old lawyer is in charge of the public order office today, and on February 1 he will officially succeed him as town hall manager.
Groth, who comes from Saxony, studied law in Jana, Thuringia, and later also received his doctorate there.
As a trainee lawyer he came to the district court of Ellwangen in Baden-Württemberg.
Then Groth moved to the government of Upper Bavaria in Munich - and finally to the Gautinger town hall.
The lawyer has been the head of the regulatory office there for a year.
Groth describes his work as "very varied".
The regulatory office is a good school for the new position as manager.
"With Dr.
Groth, we have found an excellent successor," said Mayor Dr.
Brigitte Kössinger, who can thus do without a lengthy job advertisement.
After a year he knew the house and the individual departments as well as their representatives and management.
Kössinger is certain that the transition will be smooth.