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Bautzen. The Bernsdorf master baker Roland Ermer wants to be president of the Central Association of the German Baking Trade will be. This is what it says in a letter from Ermer to the Bautzen District Office and District Administrator Udo Witschas (CDU). In it, Roland Ermer (CDU), who is also a district councilor, explains why he wants to resign his mandate.
His candidacy for the office of president requires "a large number of national and international appointments and leads to an overload that I cannot cope with," writes Roland Ermer. According to information from the association, the new president will be elected at the beginning of November 2023 during the general meeting. Still Michael Wippler from Dresden in office, but he is not standing for re-election for reasons of age.
In addition, Ermer, who ran for the CDU in the 2017 and 2021 federal elections in the Bautzen constituency, writes in his letter to the district administrator that he can no longer fulfill his work as a district councilor in a necessary manner due to his existing professional and volunteer commitments. "The burdens of Corona and the consequences of the war of aggression against Ukraine demand a much greater contribution of my person to our operation." The Bernsdorfer is also the regional chief master of the bakery trade in Saxony and honorary president of the Saxon Crafts Day.
According to the district administration, this means that there are personal reasons within the meaning of the Saxon district regulations that justify Ermer's resignation. The district council will determine this in its next meeting on March 20, 2023. As a replacement in the constituency ten thus Lothar Röthig (CDU) from Schwepnitz moves up.
The article was changed after the first publication because the Central Association of the German Baking Trade had corrected the information on the election date. According to this, the new president will not be elected in October, but at the beginning of November 2023.
