Wolfsburg - Politics

Politics

Head of the young "Stadt des KdF-Wagens" became the government assessor Karl Bock on enactment #145 of the chief president of the government of Lüneburg effective from 1 July 1938. His followers were also deployed by the government.

In 1946 the military government of the British zone of occupation established a communal constitution following the British example. After this, the citizens had to vote for a council which voted the mayor/ lord mayor as the leader and representative of the city who worked as volunteers. From 1946 on, the council voted a full-time city director as the leader of the city council. In 2001 the dual leadership of the city council was abolished. Currently it is led by a full-time lord mayor who is also the representative of the city. Since 2001 the lord mayor is directly voted by the citizens. The council still has its own chairperson who is voted by the constitutive conference of the council after every local election.