Uwe Conradt

Uwe Conradt
Uwe Conradt
Mayor of Saarbrücken
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 October 2019
Deputy	Ralf Latz (2019–2020); Barbara Meyer-Gluche (2020–)
Preceded by	Charlotte Britz
Head of the Saarland Media Authority
	In office; 2016 – 1 October 2019
Member of the Landtag of Saarland
	In office; August 2012 – May 2016
Preceded by	Peter Jacoby
Succeeded by	Petra Fretter
Member of the Saarbrücken City Council
	In office; 2009 – September 2019
Member of the Dudweiler District Council
	In office; 1999–2004
Personal details
Born	31 March 1977; Saarbrücken, Saarland, West Germany
Political party	CDU
Spouse(s)	Jana Conradt
Children	3
Alma mater	Saarland University

Uwe Conradt (born 31 March 1977) is a German Christian Democratic politician who has been serving as Mayor of Saarbrücken since 2019.[1][2]

Politics

Uwe Conradt joined the Young Union in 1990 and became a member of the CDU in 1994. He was Member of the Dudweiler District Council from 1999 until 2004 and became Member of the Saarbrücken City Council in 2009. He succeeded Peter Jacoby as Member of the Landtag of Saarland in August 2012 until 2016, when he was appointed Director of the State Media Authority.

He succeeded Peter Strobel 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 Social Democrat, 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.[3] 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

Rolshausen, Martin. "Jahresrückblick für Saarbrücken: CDU feiert einen historischen Sieg". Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2020-01-02.
Rolshausen, Martin. "Saarbrücker Stadtgeschichte: Die Mission: Rettung des Saarkrans". Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2020-01-02.
"SPD-Kandidatin unterliegt : Erstmals seit 40 Jahren wird ein CDU-Politiker Oberbürgermeister in Saarbrücken". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 2 January 2020.

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[1] Rolshausen, Martin. "Jahresrückblick für Saarbrücken: CDU feiert einen historischen Sieg". Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2020-01-02.

[2] Rolshausen, Martin. "Saarbrücker Stadtgeschichte: Die Mission: Rettung des Saarkrans". Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2020-01-02.

[3] "SPD-Kandidatin unterliegt : Erstmals seit 40 Jahren wird ein CDU-Politiker Oberbürgermeister in Saarbrücken". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 2 January 2020.