The city councilors in Frankfurt's Römer elected the new magistrate members in a secret ballot on Wednesday.

Previously, the previous department heads Uwe Becker, Jan Schneider, Daniela Birkenfeld (all CDU) and Klaus Oesterling (SPD) had been recalled for the second time.

This is what the Hessian municipal code provides.

As a farewell, Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD) presented the recalled flowers with flowers.

Her term officially ended at midnight.

Martin Benninghoff

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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With the election of the future city government, the new coalition of the Greens, SPD, FDP and Volt can now start work - around six months after the local elections in March. The group chairman of the Greens in the Römer, Tina Zapf, took over the introduction of the preferred candidates on Wednesday evening shortly before the election: “Our Frankfurt leaves no one behind.” The new magistrate has eleven department heads, one more than in the previous one. Bastian Bergerhoff (The Greens) will therefore be city treasurer as well as church and personnel department, he received 53 yes-votes. His party colleague Elke Voitl was also elected city councilor with 53 yes votes; she will take over the social affairs department. Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg was elected mayor and successor to Uwe Becker with 58 yes to 31 no votes.In the magistrate, she will in future be responsible for diversity and anti-discrimination. Stephanie Wüst will join the FDP as head of economic affairs and Annette Rinn will join the magistrate for security. Wüst scored 53, Rinn 55 yes-votes. Eileen O'Sullivan (Volt) takes over the newly created digitization department. She received 52 yes votes. However, the exact department layouts and names are not yet official. According to the Hessian municipal code, the mayor is responsible for the distribution of the business areas in the magistrate.She received 52 yes votes. The exact department layouts and names are not yet official. According to the Hessian municipal code, the mayor is responsible for distributing the business areas in the magistrate.She received 52 yes votes. However, the exact department layouts and names are not yet official. According to the Hessian municipal code, the mayor is responsible for distributing the business areas in the magistrate.

Some things stay the same

In addition to the newcomers, some things remain the same: Health department Stefan Majer (Die Grünen) will also take over the mobility department until he leaves, his party friend Rosemarie Heilig is to remain environment officer.

For the SPD, the party chairman Mike Josef remains planning department, he gets the sport from the responsibility of the city council Markus Frank (CDU).

He did not need to be recalled because he had not been re-elected.

Sylvia Weber will keep the education department, supplemented by the large area of ​​construction.

Ina Hartwig remains Head of the Department of Culture.

The electoral preparation committee, which does not meet in public, held another meeting on Wednesday afternoon and then handed the list of nominees over to city councilor Hilime Arslaner-Gölbasi.