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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Raguhn-Jeßnitz

Raguhn-Jeßnitz is a town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was formed on 1 January 2010 by the merger of the former municipalities Altjeßnitz, Jeßnitz, Marke, Raguhn, Retzau, Schierau, Thurland and Tornau vor der Heide. These 8 former municipalities are now Ortschaften or municipal divisions of the town Raguhn-Jeßnitz.

History

During World War II, Raguhn was the location of a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, in which some 500 women and girls were imprisoned and subjected to forced labour. The prisoners were almost exclusively Jewish, but there was also one non-Jewish American, Hungarian, Italian and Turkish woman each.

Politics

The first round of the mayoral elections for the town were held on 18 June 2023 with the candidate from the far-right AfD Hannes Loth party receiving 40.7% of the vote, more than any other candidate. His main rival was the independent Nils Naumann who managed to get 36.9% of the vote. Hannes Loth [de] won with 51.13% of the vote in a second run-off round on 2 July 2023 despite the fact that his party is under the surveillance of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of the State of Saxony-Anhalt.

He became the first AfD mayor in Germany.

References

  1. ^ Bürgermeisterwahlen in den Gemeinden, Endgültige Ergebnisse, Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden – Stand: 31. Dezember 2022" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt. June 2023.
  3. ^ Gebietsänderungen vom 01. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2010, Statistisches Bundesamt
  4. ^ Hauptsatzung der Stadt Raguhn-Jeßnitz, 21 August 2019.
  5. ^ "Raguhn". aussenlager-buchenwald.de (in German). Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  6. ^ "Bekanntmachung des Wahlergebnisses der Bürgermeisterwahl am 18.06.2023 und der zur Stichwahl zugelassenen Bewerber". www.raguhn-jessnitz.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  7. ^ "Sachsen-Anhalt: Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz stuft AfD als rechtsextremen Verdachtsfall ein". Der Spiegel (in German). 2021-01-25. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  8. ^ "Stichwahl um das Amt des Bürgermeisters am 02.07.2023 - Vorläufige Wahlergebnisse". www.raguhn-jessnitz.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  9. ^ "Vorläufiges Ergebnis zur Stichwahl am 02.07.2023 um das Amt des Bürgermeisters der Stadt Raguhn-Jeßnitz" (PDF). www.raguhn-jessnitz.de. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  10. ^ "Hannes Loth wird erster hauptamtlicher AfD-Bürgermeister in Deutschland". mdr.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  11. ^ "Sachsen-Anhalt: Erster AfD-Bürgermeister Deutschlands in Raguhn-Jeßnitz gewählt". Der Spiegel (in German). 2023-07-02. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
  12. ^ "Sachsen-Anhalt - Deutschlandweit erster AfD-Bürgermeister in Raguhn-Jeßnitz". deutschlandfunk.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-02.