City council election in Darmstadt: Volt candidate elected

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The State Parents’ Advisory Board is the legal representative of 1.2 million parents in Hesse. Organizationally, the office is affiliated with the Ministry of Culture in Wiesbaden.

SPD Darmstadt: “Experienced school specialist” wants to become a city councilor

Pfenning is a member of both the Waldems municipal council and the Rheingau-Taunus district council. There she is chairwoman of the district committee for youth, education and social affairs, chairwoman of the SPD Waldems and deputy chairwoman of the SPD Rheingau-Taunus.

The SPD parliamentary group leader Marquardt said that the Darmstadt SPD wanted to use Pfenning to “bring an experienced school specialist to Darmstadt” who was very familiar with the diverse challenges faced by schools and families. For many years she has shown “a passionate commitment to Hesse’s children, young people and parents”. For Darmstadt, her readiness to run is “a great opportunity,” said Marquardt.

SPD advocates building seven new schools in Darmstadt

Pfenning said that, as the head of the school department, she would take a closer look at the issue of health and establish health professionals in all schools. In view of the corona crisis and the negative effects on children, more should be invested in school psychology. She also wants to devote herself to building a new school. Darmstadt needs five new primary schools and two secondary schools.

Referring to the relevant information from the SPD parliamentary group chairman, Pfenning said that the city had “unfortunately overslept” in the past ten years to submit a complete school development plan, which, according to the Hessian School Act, must take place every five years.

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After the application deadline for the full-time city council post expired last Friday, the election preparation committee reviewed the applications received last Monday.

In addition to Pfenning, the 33-year-old business IT specialist Holger Klötzner will also introduce himself to the committee on Thursday afternoon before the city council meeting begins.

Darmstadt: IT expert and start-up entrepreneur wants to become head of the school department

The election then takes place in a secret ballot during the meeting of the city council, which begins at 4 p.m. in the Science and Congress Center Darmstadtium. In May, Klötzner was elected as a member of the Bundestag by the Volt party, which forms a coalition with the Greens and the CDU in Darmstadt, but then withdrew his candidacy.

Klötzner was born in Giessen and grew up in Wetzlar. He completed his training as an IT specialist, then studied business informatics and worked as an IT consultant. According to his own statements, he has been working as managing director in a Giessen start-up company that deals with the digitization of the care industry for four years. He also runs the “Gießen Podcast”.

FDP Darmstadt: “City council election is an act of realpolitik”

The FDP chairman, Leif Blum, accused the SPD of organizing “a useless political bogeyman for the election of a department”.

The election is “an act of realpolitik” because a political official is elected by the majority. “This is how personal government formation works everywhere,” says Blum.

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