Inauguration tomorrow

New Linz mayor reorganizes city government

Dietmar Prammer (left) has scored a coup with the nomination of Thomas Gegenhuber as city councillor. The professor leaves the JKU and joins the city senate. Tina Blöchl becomes Linz's second deputy mayor alongside Karin Hörzing (right).

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He will soon have made it: SPÖ election winner Dietmar Prammer will be sworn in as mayor of the provincial capital Linz tomorrow, Thursday. But that's not all. Prammer is reorganizing the city government a little, and a university professor is also joining the Senate.

Everything follows a precise protocol: When Dietmar Prammer (SPÖ), the winner of the Linz mayoral election, enters the municipal council chamber in the Old Town Hall tomorrow, Thursday, Upper Austria's state leader Thomas Stelzer will also be there: The ÖVP politician has the task of announcing Dietmar Prammer - officially, so to speak, also as district governor of the provincial capital.

But it will not stop there: Prammer, who is also chairman of the SPÖ in the city, will restructure the city senate. And someone who was always on Prammer's predecessor Klaus Luger's and Franz Dobusch's radar will be making his move.

The swearing-in ceremony for the new mayor will take place in the Old Town Hall, where Prammer will move into Klaus Luger's former office.

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Blöchl becomes deputy mayor again instead of councillor
Former councillor Thomas Gegenhuber has resigned from his professorship at Johannes Kepler University in Linz and accepted the future mayor's offer to become a councillor.

Thomas Gegenhuber says: "In order to solve difficult problems, new forms of cooperation are needed. That's why exchange and building bridges between science, business, civil society and the public sector have been a particular concern of mine in my work to date. I look forward to driving this forward in future from the perspective of urban policy and contributing my experience." The academic headed the Linz Institute for Transformative Change and has been a professor of business administration since 2021.

Tina Blöchl becomes deputy mayor again. She stood aside for Dietmar Prammer during the election campaign.

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After briefly stepping aside, Tina Blöchl also rises again. She made way for Prammer in the election campaign and became a city councillor; on Thursday she will be appointed 2nd Deputy Mayor alongside Karin Hörzing. Daniel Höllinger and Karin Leitner will take the vacant seats on the municipal council for the SPÖ.