Brucker Citizens' Association nominates mayoral candidate
Created: 07/10/2022 15:11
By: Dieter Metzler
With a large majority, Christian Götz (BBV) was chosen as the candidate for the mayor election in 2023.
© Dieter METZLER
Now it's official: Christian Götz is campaigning for the Brucker Bürgervereinigung (BBV) in order to conquer the mayor's chair of the large district town on March 5, 2023.
Fürstenfeldbruck – In his nomination speech, he mainly criticized the incumbent Mayor Erich Raff.
Christian Götz received 39 votes with one abstention at the public nomination event on Thursday evening in the Hotel Post.
He was the BBV's only candidate for mayor election.
Internally, the party had already declared Götz the designated mayor candidate.
City in the genes
"I have the city in my genes," said Götz, who was born in Bruck in 1969 and is married. He is a father of three and introduced himself to the 50 or so guests at the Hotel Post.
His family has come from the district town for at least four generations.
"This is not a quality feature per se," said Götz, but it is not entirely unimportant in connection with an election as mayor, as one had to notice with Martin Runge at the time when he failed as mayor candidate in Bruck.
environmental planning
Götz, who served as second mayor from 2017 to 2020 and has been on the city council for the BBV since 2014, graduated from the Carl-Spitzweg-Gymnasium in Germering in 1990.
This was followed by a degree in art education and biology before he worked as a graduate biologist at the university as a research assistant.
He then worked for six years as a teacher of biology and chemistry at a junior high school and high school.
Götz has been in the environmental planning department of a large Munich planning office for eight years.
No squire
Götz opened his half-hour election speech with the question "What makes a good mayor?".
Using three topics, he explained to the guests what the mayor absolutely must address.
Among the guests were the not yet elected mayor candidate of the ÖDP, Alexa Zierl, as well as Gröbenzell's mayor Martin Schäfer and Greens member of the state parliament Martin Runge.
Götz linked his ideas about future leadership with those of the incumbent Mayor Erich Raff, and he harshly criticized his leadership.
The mayor is not a squire, but he has to implement the decisions of the city council, Götz reprimanded what he believed to be the lack of cooperation between the mayor and the city council.
He himself would involve the 40 city councilors more, send them to training courses and want to make more use of their professional qualities.
2026 would be new elections again
And: If he becomes mayor, he would make his office available in 2026.
It is madness to continue to conduct city council elections and mayor elections separately.
According to Götz, the almost 500 employees should be perceived and valued more by a mayor as the “head of administration” and the highest employer.
Many are therefore very dissatisfied, he was able to determine during his time as second mayor.
This is the only way he can explain the large fluctuation.
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In addition, the citizenship is the largest field that a mayor has to order, according to Götz.
"Half of Bruckers don't even know the name of their mayor, let alone what he does." Three town meetings a year are not enough.
"We need reasonable citizen participation." He would set up a staff unit for citizen participation and a citizens' council.
Town planning
Urban planning is particularly close to his heart.
How you deal with the open spaces in the city is sad.
We live in difficult times, climate change, Corona, Russian war of aggression, inflation, energy crisis - a municipality cannot do much about it, says Götz.
"But we can design our direct living environment in such a way that the people who live here are better off and feel comfortable."
Götz did not want to go into his campaign strategy.
"I don't let my ideas be stolen by others.
If you all want me to be your OB then I need your support.
I won't do anything alone."
Maybe it's a good omen for Götz that the BBV held its event at the Hotel Post, where Klaus Pleil was also nominated in 2013.
In 2014 he won the run-off election against the CSU candidate Andreas Lohde and moved into the Brucker town hall.
You can find more current news from the district of Fürstenfeldbruck at Merkur.de/Fürstenfeldbruck.
