Draft:Ulrich Paetzel

Ulrich "Uli" Paetzel (born November 15, 1971 in Gelsenkirchen) is a German politician (SPD). He was mayor of the city of Herten from 2004 to 2016. He has been Chairman of the Board of Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband since 2016 and President of the DWA (German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste) since 2019.

Life
After graduating from the Städtisches Gymnasium Herten in 1991, Paetzel studied French and social sciences at the Ruhr University Bochum and the Université François Rabelais in Tours. He worked as a research assistant, obtained his doctorate in social sciences in Bochum in 2001 and became a lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences. From 1999 to 2005, he taught in the field of personnel management on behalf of the Bochum University of Applied Sciences at the Institute for Future-oriented Competence Development (IZK) and from 1999 to 2004 at the Gelsenkirchen Institute for Administrative Science. From 2001 to 2004, Paetzel was head of the marketing department at the Herten-based software company PROSOZ.

Uli Paetzel has been a member of the SPD since 1991. In 1999, he became a member of the Herten city council. In the 2004 local elections, he was elected Mayor of Herten on October 1 (51.07%). In the 2009 local elections, Paetzel was confirmed in office on August 30 with 68.5% of the vote.. In the 2014 local elections on May 25, Uli Paetzel won again and was elected for a third term of office with 64.7% of the vote. On February 1, 2016, Paetzel took over as Chairman of the Board of the two public water management associations Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband and resigned from his position as Mayor of Herten.

In December 2018, the Ruhr University Bochum awarded him the title of Honorary Professor.

Since January 1, 2019, Uli Paetzel has been President of the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA). The General Assembly unanimously elected him to office in Berlin on October 9, 2019. On September 27, 2022, he was unanimously re-elected to the office for a second term.

In 2022, Uli Paetzel was appointed to the Sustainability Advisory Council of North Rhine-Westphalia

Publications
Kunst und Kulturindustrie bei Adorno und Habermas: Perspektiven kritischer Theorie. Dt. Univ.-Verl., Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-8244-4472-0.

(as ed.): Sprachkompetenz: Herausforderung für die kommunale Bildungspolitik. PROSOZ, Herten 2003, ISBN 3-00-012135-8.

Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten - Überblick über Arbeitstechnik und Studienmethodik! Cornelsen, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-464-49803-4.

The social theory of Adorno. In: The Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften, 230/1999, 41st year, issue 2/3, pp. 447-449.

Change management in the school sector. (With others), in: Adamaschek, B./Grymer, H./Mehrmann, E./Meyer-Pries, D. (eds.): Management Handbuch Kommunalverwaltung. 2nd completely revised and expanded edition, R.v.Decker, Heidelberg 2002, pp. I-III, pp. 1-13.

And Klöckner, C. (ed.): Kindheitsforschung und kommunale Praxis. Practical findings from current childhood research. VS, Wiesbaden 2005.

Demographic change and municipal policy. In: SGK (ed.): Praxis der Kommunalpolitik. Municipal tasks at a glance Düsseldorf 2009.

The Expert Forum of the Future Initiative 'Water in the City of Tomorrow. With Andreas Giga, Ulrike Raasch, Tobias Unterbäumer. Correspondence Water Management (3/2019), pp. 131-133.

An infrastructure cooperative for the district. In: FES (ed.): Progressive strategies for the economic metropolis of tomorrow - (R)Uhrzeit Zukunft. Bonn 2020, pp. 28-33.

U. Paetzel, M. Oldengott, A. Knickmeier: The Emscher - a river with different faces. In: Markus Pließnig(ed.): One year European Green Capital - Essen 2017. p. 405-427.

U. Paetzel, A. Knickmeier: Health-promoting aspects of the Emscher conversion. In: K. Böhm et al. (eds.): Health as a task for society as a whole. The Health in All Policies concept and its implementation in Germany. Wiesbaden 2020, pp. 343-350.

The Emscher - place of remembrance and future workshop. In: W. Roters, H. Gräf, H. Wollmann (eds.): Thinking and taking responsibility for the future. Challenges for politics, science and society in the 21st century. Wiesbaden 2020, pp. 631-646.

Green in Oberhausen - past and present. Interview with Prof. Dr. Uli Paetzel. In: M. Dellwig (ed.): Oberhausen. Awakening makes history. Structural change 1847-2006. Oberhausen 2020, pp. 213-240.