Dominic Fritz

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Dominic Fritz
Dominic Samuel Fritz.jpg
Dominic Fritz in 2019
Mayor of Timișoara
Assumed office
30 October 2020
Personal details
Born
Dominic Samuel Fritz

(1983-12-28) 28 December 1983 (age 37)
Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Political partyUSR PLUS
OccupationConductor, politician

Dominic Samuel Fritz (born on 28 December 1983 in Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany) is a German politician who was elected mayor of Timișoara in 2020 on behalf of the USR PLUS with the additional support of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR).[1] By religious confession, he is Christian of Roman Catholic faith.

Prior to becoming the mayor of Timișoara in 2020, after the 2020 Romanian local elections, Fritz was a member of Alliance 90/The Greens (i.e. the German ecologist party) between 2009 and 2019 and also a political advisor to former German president Horst Köhler (whose parents were re-located to Nazi Germany from Rîșcani, northern Bessarabia, now Republic of Moldova) between 2016 and 2019.[2][3][4] Fritz is a conductor by profession. He had also undergone a one year volunteering stage in Romania before pursuing his academic studies.

Biography[]

A native of Germany, Dominic Fritz came to Timișoara in 2003 at the initiative of priest Berno Rupp.[5] Subsequently, Fritz visited Timișoara regularly in the years to come and was in charge of Timișoara Gospel Project.[6]

In 2020, he became mayor of Timișoara after defeating his predecessor Nicolae Robu who was supported by the National Liberal Party (PNL). Fritz won over Robu in the first round by a margin of 53.24% of cast votes. Thus, he became the first foreign mayor of Timișoara since 1989.

As incumbent mayor of Timișoara, he has been active in monitoring and solving the COVID-19 pandemic locally through a series of measures.

Fritz does not have Romanian citizenship, but he said that he wants to obtain it in the near future.[7][8][9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Fritz în prima conferință de primar ales: Ieri, Timișoara a încheiat prin vot această tranziție, la 30 de ani de la căderea comunismului". www.tion.ro (in Romanian). 28 September 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Görwihl: Ein junger Hotzenwälder ist jetzt Bürgermeister einer rumänischen Großstadt", SÜDKURIER Online, 2020-10-02, retrieved 2021-03-11
  3. ^ "Dominic Fritz", Süddeutsche.de, retrieved 2021-03-11
  4. ^ "Romania local elections: Young German elected mayor of Timișoara", Romania Insider, retrieved 2021-03-11
  5. ^ "Pater Berno Rupp SDS: Wegbereiter, Vorbild, Anpacker" (PDF) (in German). 29 September 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  6. ^ Stefan Both (2 August 2014). "Povestea consilierului guvernamental german care strânge 100 de timișoreni într-un cor gospel". Adevărul (in Romanian). Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  7. ^ https://evz.ro/cine-este-dominic-fritz-si-de-ce-nu-are-inca-cetatenie-video.html
  8. ^ https://romania.europalibera.org/a/timisoara-candidat-primarie-neamt/30230465.html
  9. ^ https://www.zf.ro/eveniment/interviu-spectaculos-dominic-fritz-noul-primar-timisoarei-german-19589149
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