Munich City Hall: IT consultant Thomas Bönig surprisingly goes to Stuttgart - after four years in office

Created: 02/17/2022, 21:07

By: Sascha Karowski

IT consultant Thomas Bönig (left) was only elected in 2018, now he is leaving Munich again.

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The personnel carousel in Munich is surprisingly picking up speed: on Thursday it was announced that IT consultant Thomas Bönig would be leaving the city.

He was only elected in 2018.

Munich – IT consultant Thomas Bönig will resign after only four years in office.

As the Stuttgarter Zeitung reports, the 60-year-old has already been elected head of the newly founded Office for Digitization, Organization and IT.

The new department has around 400 jobs.

Thomas Bönig has only been an IT consultant in Munich since 2018 - now he's already leaving

Bönig was only elected as the new IT officer for the state capital of Munich in 2017, and he took up his post in March 2018.

To date, there hasn’t been an IT department on the Isar either.

There were no answers on Thursday evening as to why the 60-year-old is already changing – at most speculation.

Bönig comes from near Karlsruhe.

He is a computer scientist, worked as a consultant for insurance companies and banks and was head of the IT department at the federal and state pension fund for eight years.

IT in Munich: Bönig should bundle data processing in one house

Bönig came to Munich to get the small and large problems of data processing under control.

As an example: Up to this point, most municipal departments had their own IT.

Bönig should bundle these in a department with 1100 positions.

But there was also dissatisfaction.

Bönig was not without controversy, keywords: open source, Windows conversion.

The Greens have the right to propose the IT department, they could have proposed Bönig again in 2024 or not.

Whether talks had already been held on this question could not be clarified on Thursday evening.

According to reports, however, there have already been negative signals.

Green Party boss Florian Roth thanked him on Twitter on Thursday evening for the impetus that Bönig gave to the digitization of Munich.

"With the new task in his Swabian homeland, he will be able to use his experience from the time in Munich.

Regrettable for Munich, good for Stuttgart.”

The Greens now have to clarify this personnel earlier than expected.

The new office in Stuttgart is scheduled to start work on April 1, but it remains to be clarified whether the new manager will start that early.