Uwe Conradt (born 31 March 1977) is a German

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politician who has been serving as Mayor of

Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Franconian: ''Sabrigge'' ; ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commerci ...

since 2019.

Politics

Uwe Conradt joined the

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in 1990 and became a member of the CDU in 1994. He was Member of the

Dudweiler Dudweiler is a borough of Saarbrücken, on the Sulzbach creek. In 977, Dudweiler was first mentioned in official documents of German Emperor Otto II as the location of a chapel (Duodonisvillare). Dudweiler received town privileges on 12 Septembe ...

District Council from 1999 until 2004 and became Member of the Saarbrücken City Council in 2009. He succeeded

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as Member of the

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in August 2012 until 2016, when he was appointed Director of the State Media Authority. He succeeded

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as Speaker of the CDU City Council Group in 2018 and ran for the office of Mayor in the local elections on 26 May 2019. He received 29.0 percent, finishing second to the incumbent Charlotte Britz, a

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, who received 36.8 percent. Both advanced to the runoff election which took place on 9 June, in which he surprisingly defeated Britz with 50.3 percent of the votes, ending a 43 years lasting streak of Social Democratic Mayors in Saarbrücken. He vacated his council seat in September 2019. He assumed the office of Mayor on 1 October 2019 and is being backed by a so-called Jamaica coalition of CDU, the Green Party and the Free Democrats.

Sources

Personal homepage

Uwe Conradt
on the Saarbrücken city homepage

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Conradt, Uwe 1977 births Politicians from Saarbrücken Living people Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians 20th-century German politicians 21st-century German politicians