Jörg Lutz (born 10 May 1963 in

Calw Calw (; previously pronounced and sometimes spelled ''Kalb'' accordingly) is a town in the middle of Baden-Württemberg in the south of Germany, capital and largest town of the district Calw. It is located in the Northern Black Forest and is a ...

, West Germany) is a German

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. On 20 July 2014, he was elected to mayor of the town of

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in southern Germany. He officially took office on 1 October 2014.

Life and work

After finishing school at the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium

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he performed community service from 1982 until 1984 in Leonberg hospital. From 1984 until 1989 he studied law at the

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followed by an internship at the Oberlandesgericht

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. He also worked in a law firm in

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. From 1993 to 1995 Herr Lutz was legal counsel to the administration and local authority supervision at the Loerrach District Office. After a period of parental leave he was Commissioner for Social Affairs for the Loerrach area. In 1999 he was elected as mayor of the community of Grenzach-Wyhlen and in 2007 was re-elected. In 2009 he was awarded the Theodor-Heuss-Medaille for exemplary civil dialogue. When the incumbent mayor of Loerrach, Gudrun Heute-Bluhm, resigned at the beginning of 2014 Jörg Lutz offered himself for election, together with four other candidates. In the first round of the election on 6 July Joerg Lutz gained 40.9% and in the second round he was elected as mayor with 64,4 % of the votes. He started as Mayor of Lörrach on the 1 October 2014 and was confirmed in the election on July 3, 2022 with 86.7 % for a second term.Badische Zeitung
Jörg Lutz remains Mayor of Lörrach
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Joerg Lutz is married and has two daughters.

Further Commitments

* Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sparkasse Lörrach-Rheinfelden * Member of the district council of the district of Lörrach * Member of the board of the Trinational Eurodistrict of Basel (TEB) * Member of the University Council of the

Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach The Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach (DHBW-Loerrach) was founded in 1981 as ''Berufsakademie Lörrach''. It offers workplace-focused, cooperative degree courses. This means that students alternate between learning the the ...

* Member of the board of directors of the municipal data processing authority Komm.ONE * Honorary judge of the Loerrach Industrial Tribunal (Arbeitsgericht Lörrach) * Member of the "Medium Cities" committee of the German Association of Cities * President of

Loerrach International Loerrach International e.V. (Registered_association_(Germany), registered association) is an association of citizens, educational, sport and cultural institutions, service clubs, municipal administration and local council in Lörrach in southwester ...

e. V. * Chairman of the student research center phaenovum e.V. * President of the Lörrach Town Music Association (Stadtmusik Loerrach)

Awards

*2009: Theodor-Heuss-Medaille

References

External links

Official Website of Jörg Lutz on the Webpage of Lörrach
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lutz, Joerg Jurists from Baden-Württemberg Mayors of places in Baden-Württemberg Living people 1963 births People from Calw