The incumbent is the only candidate – and gets more than 96 percent of the valid votes: Oliver Rein remains mayor of Breisach. Voter turnout is 27.2 percent.
The 49-year-old lawyer and CDU politician can begin his third term as mayor of the European city on the Rhine. Oliver Rein was the only candidate who received 96.5 percent of the valid votes cast. Voter turnout in the city, which has around 12,045 residents entitled to vote, was 27.2 percent. 3018 Breisacher voted for Rein. 110 voters entered other eligible persons on the ballot paper, another 155 eligible voters cast invalid ballot papers.
Oliver Rein grew up in Staufen, attended high school there and studied law in Freiburg. After completing his legal clerkship, he became a deputy in Breisach in 2000 and was elected mayor for the first time in 2006, when he was still independent. In the 2014 election, he defeated Green Party candidate Petra Breitenfeldt with around 71 percent. The turnout in these two mayoral elections was around 48 percent.
Rein has also been the CDU parliamentary group leader in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district council for a number of years and is committed to German-French cooperation. Rein is married and has two sons.
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