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German politician (born 1975)
Thomas Nitzsche
Nitzsche in 2018
Mayor of Jena
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 July 2018
Preceded byAlbrecht Schröter
Personal details
Born (1975-12-01) 1 December 1975 (age 49)
Zeulenroda,
East Germany
Political partyFree Democratic Party of Germany (FDP)
ResidenceJena
Alma materUniversity of Jena
Websitehttps://www.jena.de/de/233674

Thomas Nitzsche (born 1 December 1975 in Zeulenroda) is a German politician (FDP) and the Mayor of Jena since 1 July 2018.

Career

Nitzsche attended the Hubert Westhoff Polytechnic High School in Zeulenroda from 1982 to 1991, and the Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium in Jena from 1991 until achieving his Abitur in 1994. In 1995, he began studies in English and political science at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. He remained in Jena until graduation, apart from a year in Glasgow and a quarter-term in Salamanca. While at FSU Jena, Nitzsche was a research assistant to Klaus Dicke, later Rector of the university. For his graduate thesis in 2007, he wrote about the Spanish liberal politician Salvador de Madariaga. From 2008 until he took office as mayor, Nitzsche was a subject specialist (Fachreferent) at the Thuringian University and State Library (ThULB).

Politics

Nitzsche at a campaign event in the spring of 2018

In 2003, Nitzsche became district chairman for the Young Liberals in Jena and in 2007, he became district chairman for the FDP. Since 2009, he earned a place on the city council of Jena. In the 2012 Thuringian municipal elections, he ran for the position of Mayor of Jena for the first time and received 2.4% of the vote. In the 2013 German federal election, he ran for the FDP in the constituency Gera - Jena - Saale-Holzland-Kreis. Nitzsche is presently the acting chairman of the FDP Thuringia. In the city council of Jena, he was chairman of committees on youth welfare and school development and of the kindergarten subcommittee. Until his election, he also headed the advisory board for motor vehicle traffic in Jena and was a knowledgeable citizen member of the Urban Development Committee.

In the 2018 Thuringian municipal elections, Nitzsche ran a successful campaign as the FDP candidate for the position of Mayor of Jena. In the first ballot on 15 April 2018, he received at 26.9% the most votes of the nine candidates. In particular, he outperformed the incumbent mayor Albrecht Schröter, a result which was considered surprising to most observers. In the subsequent runoff ballot on 29 April 2018, Nitzsche defeated Schröter with 63.3% of the vote.

Personal

Nitzsche has been married since 1998 and has a daughter and a son.

Publications

External links

Preceded byAlbrecht Schröter Mayor of Jena
2018 – present 		Incumbent

References

  1. ^ "Life & Profile" (in German). 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  2. "OB-Wahlen: Thomas Nitzsche im Porträt FDP" (in German). FDP Jena-Saale-Holzland - Die Liberalen online. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  3. Schinkels, Pauline (2013-05-18). "Jenaer Thomas Nitzsche geht mit Familienfoto nach Berlin" (in German). Ostthüringer Zeitung. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  4. "Porträt des Oberbürgermeisters Dr. Thomas Nitzsche" (in German). Retrieved 2018-07-03.
  5. Wentzel, Andreas (2018-04-17). "OB-Stichwahl Jena: Gelingt Nitzsche der Coup?" (in German). Jenaer Nachrichten. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  6. "Überraschungen bei OB-Wahl in Thüringen" (in German). Thüringen 24. 2018-04-15. Retrieved 2018-04-30.

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