Mayoral election in Kreuth: Bierschneider is back in the running

Created: 05/18/2022, 15:16

By: Gabi Werner

Congratulations on the nomination: Electoral Officer Christian Köck (left) and Mayor Josef Bierschneider.

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Josef Bierschneider (CSU) wants to remain mayor of Kreuth: he will run for office again in September's election.

Whether it will be a solo effort again remains to be seen.

Kreuth

– Josef Bierschneider has been mayor of Kreuth for almost 24 years.

In 1998, at the age of 26, the CSU man became the youngest head of the town hall in Bavaria.

When the mayoral elections in the southernmost valley community are due on September 25 of this year, Bierschneider will apply again for the post.

The CSU local association unanimously – and unsurprisingly – named him mayoral candidate at a nomination meeting.

Opposing candidate for Bierschneider?

Nothing known yet

The unanimous result pleased the incumbent.

"Of course it's nice that the local association is united behind you," says Bierschneider, who is also the CSU local chairman.

The result let him go into the election campaign with a “good feeling”.

However, it is questionable whether an election campaign will actually take place at all.

So far nothing is known about the fact that the other parties will send an opposing candidate into the race.

However, it is still possible to submit nominations until the beginning of August.

In the past mayoral elections in Kreuth, the other groups had each refrained from nominating a candidate.

For Bierschneider it was always a solo effort.

Kreuth and Gmund step out of line at the mayoral election

Besides Gmund, Kreuth is the only community on Tegernsee where the head of the town hall is not elected in the context of local elections, but outside of the rotation.

That will probably remain the case, as Bierschneider explains.

The Municipal Code states that only mayors who were elected no more than two years before or two years after the regular date must have their rotation adjusted.

This is not the case with Bierschneider.

At the meeting, the head of the town hall also gave an outlook on the projects to come in the next term of office.

Residential construction will play a central role in Kreuth.

But also the expansion of commercial enterprises.

"We have a lot of tradesmen who want to expand," explains Bierschneider.

Rottach Mayor Christian Köck as election officer

The mayor of Rottach and CSU parliamentary group spokesman in the district council, Christian Köck, took over the election line at the nomination meeting.

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