Patronage: Mayor Fritz Kuhn

Fritz Kuhn , Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, is the patron of this year’s  Christopher Street Day ( CSD ) in the state capital.

“With pleasure I have taken over the patronage the CSD in 2015,” explains the mayor Fritz Kuhn.”Stuttgart is a cosmopolitan, a liberal city, where everyone and can maintain each one’s own lifestyle, the.  theme of this year’s CSD -, ! Acceptance What else? ‘ – Is not as current as long discrimination and defamation have no place in our midst as a patron I want to help ensure that acceptance is taken for granted and commonplace, what else “..!

For the  CSD club Fritz Kuhn’s patronage is a symbol of the now long-term use of state capital for a diverse, open city society. For ten years now, both in the urban policy and in the municipality develops an impressive change process. 2005 at the time when it was far from obvious in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart opened one of the first communities in the country at all the civil registry for same-sex partnering events and sat firmly identical management fees, as are common in a heterosexual marriage.

In the previous term of Fritz Kuhn coincide with the orientation of a dialogue day for rainbow families in the town hall (July 2014) and the positioning of the city as a tolerant employer important projects in terms of equality, visibility and acceptance. Stuttgart directed one of the largest employers in the region his work under the diversity aspect explicitly in the interests of LSBTTIQ-people. This culminated last year in the first-time participation of an official Fußgruppe with numerous mitmarschierenden employees of the state capital at the CSD-political parade . For LSBTTIQ-concerns itself also a regular daily Direction Working Group has been established under the leadership of the municipal Department of equal opportunities, in its environment, among others, the online offer on the website  www.stuttgart.de/lsbttiq was supplemented by important equality issues.

Also in the daily collaboration with the local council, the city administration and the authorities in the field of organization of the CSD festivals we come as a team of volunteers to open doors and find great support. Externally visible urban engagement, for example, by now quite obvious  rainbow flagging for CSD at the Stuttgart City Hall, the opening of the large meeting room for the  reception of CSD association or through the provision of  City Light billboards within the city limits.

This year’s patronage of the Lord Mayor of Stuttgart must be construed as a thank you to all those involved in urban policies and management.

The written  greeting of Schirmherrnist  online or in the printed program notes read.

As patron of the festival Mayor Fritz Kuhn is the  CSD reception speak a personal greeting in the Stuttgart City Hall on July 10, 2015. Also takes the mayor at the  final rally for the  CSD Polit parade on July 25, 2015 in part on the Schlossplatz.

About the Office

The patronage of the  Christopher Street Day ( CSD ) festival in Stuttgart is awarded annually on a rotational basis to another political party. 2015 are scheduled according to Alliance ’90 / The Greens in the series. The Office is interested have the opportunity to deal intensively with the vision and the proposed solutions of a party, person or entity with respect to the acceptance and legal equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, intersex and queer people. Various forms of presence and direct contact with the screen woman or the patron at the CSD events and actions should allow a deeper insight into the ongoing exposure. The focus an open dialogue around is  LSBTTIQ-concerns for equitable coexistence and the visibility of diversity.

About Fritz Kuhn

Fritz Kuhn was elected on 21 October 2012 for eight years; Lord Mayor of Stuttgart. Since October 2011 he has been a member of the party council of Alliance 90 / The Greens of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Kuhn was born Fritz Kuhn on 29 June 1955 in Bad Mergentheim. Kuhn grew up in Memmingen in the Allgäu. He is married with Waltraud Ulshöfer.The couple has two sons. Fritz Kuhn studied German and philosophy at the University of Munich and Tübingen.

Among his most important professional and political stations include his time as an MP in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament and (1984-88, 1992-2000) as well as a German Member of Parliament (2002-13).He also had the Group chaired by Alliance 90 / The Greens in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg (1984-88, 1992-2000) as well as hold the chairmanship of the Federal Party (2000-02) and the faction headed by Alliance 90 / The Greens in the German Bundestag (2005-09), and the local Deputy faction chair (2009-12). On 07 January 2013 he took office as Mayor of the City of Stuttgart.

Previous screen women and Patrons

In the past, took honorable people in politics, business and sports patron for CSD Stuttgart:

• Heiner Geissler (CDU, 2000)
• Ute Kumpf, former parliamentary secretary of the parliamentary party (SPD, 2001)
• Rezzo Schlauch (Alliance 90 / The Greens, 2002)
• Corinna-Hertneck Werwigk, former Baden-Württemberg Minister of Justice (FDP, 2003)
• Hans H. Pfeifer, former City Manager of CIS Stuttgart eV (2004)
• Andreas Renner, former Baden-Württemberg Minister of Social Affairs (CDU, 2005)
• Herta Däubler-Gmelin, Federal Minister of Justice (SPD, 2006)
• Cem Özdemir, former MEP (Greens / European Free Alliance, 2007)
• Gabriele Zimmer, former MEP (DIE.LINKE in the European Parliament, 2008)
• Erwin Staudt, former president of VfB Stuttgart eV (2009)
• Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, former Federal Minister of Justice (FDP, 2010)
• Wolfgang Schuster, former Lord Mayor of Stuttgart (CDU, 2011)
• Harald Christ, gay entrepreneur from Berlin (2012)
• Nils Schmid, Minister of Economy and Finance in Baden-Württemberg (SPD, 2014)