Georg Kronawitter

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Georg Kronawitter (born April 21, 1928) is a German politician of the SPD. He was mayor of Munich from 1972 to 1978 and again from 1984 to 1993.

Kronawitter was born in Oberthann, a part of Schweitenkirchen in the district of Pfaffenhofen. He was an elementary school teacher since 1949, then studied in Munich and graduated in 1956 as a Diplom-Handelslehrer (business teacher).^[1]

He became a member of the SPD in 1961 and was elected to the Landtag of Bavaria in 1966. In the 1972 local elections, he was elected Mayor of Munich with 55.9% of the votes^[1], succeeding Hans-Jochen Vogel. Due to conflicts within his party he did not run for mayorship in the 1978 elections, and was succeeded by the CSU's Erich Kiesl. However, six years later, he was elected mayor again in the April 1, 1984 run-off election, with 58.1% of the votes. In 1990, he won election once again; winning with a result of 61.64%.^[1]

In 1993, Kronawitter was made honorary citizen of Munich, for his commitment to social justice and his early awareness of ecological possibilities of fiscal policy.

Already in 1978, he had been honored with the Ludwig-Thoma medal for boldness and moral courage.

After his mayoral career, Kronawitter was a major supporter of the successful Initiative-Unser-München petition, which stipulated that no high rise buildings whose height exceeds that of the Frauenkirche (99 m) may be built in Munich. After this success some people in Munich jokingly use "Kronawitter" as a unit of measure, denoting 99m.

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• Works by and about Georg Kronawitter in the German National Library catalogue

Persondata
NAME	Kronawitter, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	German politician, mayor of Munich
DATE OF BIRTH	21 April 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oberthann, Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH