Vita Manfred Rommel

Vita Prof. Dr. h.c. Manfred Rommel

24.12.1928	Manfred Rommel born in Stuttgart
1956	Passed the German State Examination in Law
1971	Appointed State Secretary of the Finance Department of Baden-Württemberg
1974	Elected mayor of Stuttgart
1977	Permitted the terrorists Gudrun Ensslin, Andreas Baader and Jan Carl Raspe to be buried together in the face of public protest
	Named president of the Association of German Cities
1978	Oversaw the establishment of the suburban railway system in Stuttgart (Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart (VVS))
1983	Initiated the building of Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, an indoor arena
1993	Secured the World Championships in Athletics for Stuttgart
	Reorganized Stuttgart’s budget resulting in a major reduction of the city’s debt
1994	Voted for Stuttgart 21, a railway and urban development project
	Formed Verband Region Stuttgart
1996	Modernized the runway at Stuttgart’s airport
	Named Stuttgart’s citizen of honour
2009	Deutsch-Türkisches Forum Stuttgart awards the Manfred-Rommel-Prize for the first time
7.11.2013	Manfred Rommel dies in Stuttgart (age 84)
2018	First applications accepted for the Manfred-Rommel-Scholarship by Stuttgart

 

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