Ludwig Scholz (30 June 1937 in Juliusberg, Landkreis Oels,

Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( pl, Dolny Śląsk; cz, Dolní Slezsko; german: Niederschlesien; szl, Dolny Ślōnsk; hsb, Delnja Šleska; dsb, Dolna Šlazyńska; Silesian German: ''Niederschläsing''; la, Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the ...

, now

Dobroszyce Dobroszyce (german: Juliusburg) is a village in Oleśnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Dobroszyce. It lies approximately north-west of Oleśnica, ...

Oleśnica County __NOTOC__ Oleśnica County ( pl, powiat oleśnicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local govern ...

, Poland – 20 September 2005 in

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

) was a German politician of the

CSU CSU may refer to: * Channel service unit, a Wide area network equivalent of a network interface card * Chari Aviation Services, Chad, by ICAO airline code * Christian Social Union (UK), an Anglican social gospel organisation * Christian Social Un ...

and the

mayor of Nuremberg {{Short description, none This is a list of mayors of Nuremberg (''Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Nürnberg'') since 1818: * 1818–1821: Christian Gottfried Lorsch * 1821–1853: Jakob Friedrich Binder * 1854–1867: Maximilian von Waechter * 186 ...

Politics

Ludwig Scholz was the surprise winner of the Nuremberg municipal elections in 1996. He became successor of the longtime mayor Peter Schönlein, but lost the next elections in 2002 to

Ulrich Maly Dr. Ulrich Maly (born 8 August 1960) is a German politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany who served as Mayor of Nuremberg from 2002 till 2020. Early life and education Ulrich Maly was born in Nuremberg, Bavaria, and edu ...

. Scholz was the first Catholic mayor of Nuremberg since the Reformation.

References

1937 births 2005 deaths Mayors of Nuremberg German Roman Catholics {{Germany-CSU-politician-stub