I am the district mayor of Dortmund-Aplerbeck since 2023
Aplerbeck is one of twelve districts of Dortmund (around 56,000 residents).
The responsibilities of a district mayor are to represent the district in public, to chair the meetings of the Bezirksvertretung, and to protect the interest of the Bezirksvertretung vis-Ă -vis external parties. The distric mayor is elected by the members of the Bezirksvertretung in the constituent meeting of the Bezirksvertretung after a municipal election. The legal basis can be found in sections 36-38 of the Gemeindeordnung NRW (GO NRW).
Before I became district mayor, I was chairman of the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in the Bezirksvertretung Aplerbeck from 2014 to 2023.