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Michael Kolmer (Greens), the previous head of the Office for Economy and Urban Development of the City of Darmstadt, will succeed the elected Planning Department Head Barbara Boczek (Greens). Mayor Rafael Reisser (CDU) remains in office for the time being. And social affairs officer Barbara Akdeniz (Greens) is to become mayor.
Michael Kolmer (Greens), the previous head of the Office for Economic and Urban Development of the City of Darmstadt, was elected to the new full-time city councilor late Thursday evening. The 51-year-old succeeds planning officer Barbara Boczek (Greens), who had previously been recalled for the second time.
Darmstadt: Kolmer receives one vote more than the future coalition
37 votes were cast for Kolmer. That is one more vote than the Greens, CDU and Volt have in the city parliament. The three factions are striving to form a coalition. A corresponding coalition agreement is to be presented to the political bodies of the parties in July.
According to a communication from the city, Kolmer will in future be responsible for the environment, urban planning, surveying, building supervision, mobility, green spaces and climate protection. Only Kolmer’s application had been submitted to the election preparation committee of the city council.
New city council in Darmstadt: “Expert and networker”
Hildegard Förster-Heldmann, the leader of the Greens, described Kolmer as a “competent and versatile specialist and networker”. FDP party leader Leif Blum said that Kolmer had so far been “approachable, ready for dialogue and cooperative”. The personnel is “a respectable suggestion,” said Blum.
Uli Franke (Linke) and Helmut (Uwiga), on the other hand, said they would have preferred a city or traffic planner instead of an economic developer. Franke even said: “We don’t have the feeling that Kolmer is suitable for this task.”
Darmstadt Mayor Reisser remains in office for the time being
First report from June 23, 2021, 6.45 p.m .: Darmstadt’s Mayor Rafael Reisser (CDU) is expected to stay in office three weeks longer than originally planned. The three parliamentary groups of the Greens, CDU and Volt want to remove a corresponding motion to vote Reisser out for the second time on Thursday, June 24th, during the meeting of the city council in the Darmstadtium congress center. The parliamentary group chairmen Hildegard Förster-Heldmann (Greens) and Roland Desch (CDU) confirmed this on Wednesday upon request.
The Greens, CDU and Volt have been negotiating the formation of a coalition for several weeks. However, the party committees are not due to vote on the agreement, which will probably contain more than a hundred pages, until early July.
Darmstadt: Akdeniz, head of social affairs, is to become mayor
Barbara Akdeniz (Greens) has been a full-time city councilor and social affairs officer in Darmstadt since 2011.
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Therefore, the second reelection and the planned election of the current youth, social and environmental department head Barbara Akdeniz (Greens) as the first female mayor of Darmstadt will take place during the city council meeting on July 15th.
On the other hand, it is planned to vote out Councilor Barbara Boczek (Greens) for the second time this Thursday, as planned. Michael Kolmer, the previous head of the Office for Economics and Urban Development, is to be elected as the successor to the head of the building and planning department, who no longer has any support from the Darmstadt Greens. It is planned that Kolmer will also take over the environmental department.
Darmstadt: City Councilor Kolmer headed the Office for Economy and Urban Development
The 51-year-old Kolmer has been working in Darmstadt’s city administration for more than two decades and works closely with Mayor Jochen Partsch (Greens). After studying geography at the Technical University (TU) Darmstadt, the native Darmstadt worked at the TU and for the state of Baden-Württemberg.
Since 2005 he has headed the Office for Economy and Urban Development of the City of Darmstadt. Kolmer represents the city in several committees on various topics, ranging from start-ups and urban development to digitization. In addition, he took on various teaching positions.
Green parliamentary group leader Förster-Heldmann described Kolmer, who has been a member of the Greens in the district for four years, as “with integrity, loyal and professional”. CDU parliamentary group leader Desch described Kolmer’s upcoming change of role from head of office to city council as follows: “He will now come to the fore from the background.”
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