Farewell to the council

INGO EISENBEIS

Farewell to the council

After almost ten years in Offenburg local politics, most of them in a key position as parliamentary group leader of the Greens, Ingo Eisenbei is retiring from the local council. There are health reasons that are forcing the 55-year-old to give up a volunteer position that he has put his heart and soul into just a few months before the 2024 local elections. “But it’s clear to me that it has to end now,” says the Offenburg native, who works full-time as a lawyer. Eisenbei will be passed at the last council meeting of the year on December 18th. He was elected to the committee in 2014 and, after Angelika Wald withdrew, was elected to the demanding position of parliamentary group leader a year later. His assessment is positive: “I would do it again, and I see that something is moving in the council and also in the administration.” Because several city councilors are no longer running, there will be many new people on the local council after the local elections on June 9th. Looking back on his own beginnings, Eisenbei would like the established councils to take them by the hand: “We’re all in the same boat.”

ARTHUR JERGER

Temporary return

Eisenbei will be replaced by Arthur Jerger, a local politician who has been on the council for the Greens since 2014 and who primarily represented the interests of Hildboltsweier and Albersbsch and fought for a transport transition and affordable housing. Because the Greens distributed list places using a lottery system in 2019, the home director i. R. not enough for re-entry. The 70-year-old now wants to hold office again, but only for the last few months until the end of the electoral term. Jerger does not want to run again in the 2024 local elections.