The city of Hanau has a new mayor and a new full-time city councillor.
On Monday evening, the city councilors elected the 32-year-old Social Democrat Maximilian Bieri, previously SPD faction leader, with a large majority to succeed the outgoing mayor Axel Weiss-Thiel (SPD).
His term of office ends in May, and he did not make himself available for another period.
Isabelle Hemsley, a Christian Democrat of the same age, will take on the full-time city council post in the future.
She has also previously been leader of her party's city council faction.
The full-time magistrate continues to consist of three people.
In addition to the two freshly elected full-time officials, the directly elected Mayor Claus Kaminsky (SPD) is one of them.
The actual term of office of the two new members of the magistrate begins in early summer.
The coalition parties of SPD, CDU and FDP had stipulated the change in the city council post at half-time in their coalition agreement.
It was determined that the then incumbent city councilor Thomas Morlock from the FDP would hand over the office to a CDU representative so that the coalition partner CDU could also be adequately represented in the city council during the electoral period.