The Finance and General Purposes Committee

One of its essential duties is to prepare the decisions of the Council. In most cases, for this the Expert Committees and the District Councils have already provided recommendations.

The Finance and General Purposes Committee is in charge of those matters which neither require a resolution by the Council, by the District Councils or the specialist committees, nor are incumbent on the Mayor and CEO of the City of Hanover.

In particular cases or for a set of issues, the Finance and General Purposes Committee can assign its responsibility to the Mayor.

For the City of Hannover the Finance and General Purposes Committee consists of

• The Mayor as the chairman and ten associates, who are appointed from among the Council members’ number. Three of these are deputies of the Mayor and carry the denomination Deputy Mayor. The other members are associates (Beigeordnete).
• Four Alder(wo)men are additional members as holders of a fundamental mandate.
• Furthermore seven Elective Officers leading a Directorate belong to the Finance and General Purposes Committee. These elective officers do not have voting rights; they are members in an advisory capacity. The same goes for the holders of a fundamental mandate.

In Hannover the Finance and General Purposes Committee normally convenes once a week. Its gatherings are not public, but the population is informed about important decisions through the press.

Chairman

Mayor and CEO Belit Onay

Associates (Beigeordnete)

• Beigeordnete Dr. Elisabeth Clausen-Muradian (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
  Substitute: Alderman Norbert Gast (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
• Beigeordneter Dr. Daniel Gardemin (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
  Substitute: Alderman Michael Rinker (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
• Beigeordnete Uta Engelhardt (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
  Substitute: Alderwoman Dr. Stefanie Killinger (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
• Beigeordnete Monica Plate (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
  Substitute: Alderwoman Anna-Tabea Kraeft (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
• Beigeordneter Thomas Hermann (SPD)
  Substitute: Alderwoman Dr. Maxi Ines Carl (SPD)
• Beigeordneter Lars Kelich (SPD)
  Substitute: Alderwoman Hülya Iri (SPD)
• Beigeordnete Kerstin Klebe-Politze (SPD)
  Substitute: Alderman Dr. Bala Subramanian Ramani (SPD)
• Beigeordneter Dr. Jens Menge (SPD)
  Substitute: Alderman Florian Spiegelhauer (SPD)
• Beigeordneter Felix Semper (CDU)
  Substitute: Alderwoman Britta Waase (CDU)
• Beigeordneter Thomas Klapproth (CDU)
  Substitute: Alderman Lars Pohl (CDU)

Fundamental mandates

• Alderman Wilfried Engelke (FDP)
  1. Substitute: Alderman Patrick Döring
  2. Substitute: Alderwoman Ulla Ihnen
• Alderman Dirk Machentanz (Die LINKE)
  Substitute: N.N.
• Alderman Jens Keller (AfD)
  Substitute: Alderman Uwe Wippach (AfD)
• Alderman Juli Klippert (Die PARTEI und Volt)
  Substitute: Alderwoman Joana Zahl (Die PARTEI und Volt)

Members in advisory capacity

• First City Councillor and City Treasurer Dr. Axel von der Ohe (Dezernat II)
• City Councillor Prof. Lars Baumann (Dezernat I)
• City Councillor Sylvia Bruns (Dezernat III)
• City Councillor Rita Maria Rzyski (Dezernat IV)
• City Councillor Anja Ritschel (Dezernat V)
• City Director of Construction and Planning Thomas Vielhaber (Dezernat VI)
• City Councillor Konstanze Beckedorf (Dezernat VII)