Dieter Salomon

Dr. Dieter Salomon
Mayor of Freiburg
In office 2002 – current
Preceded by	Rolf Böhme
Majority	64.4%
Personal details
Born	August 9, 1960 Melbourne, Australia
Political party	Alliance '90/The Greens
Spouse(s)	Helen Hall-Salomon
Children	1
Occupation	Politician, Mayor
Website	http://www.dieter-salomon.de

Dr. Dieter Salomon (born August 9, 1960 in Melbourne, Australia) is a German politician and mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau. He is a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens.

Biography

Dieter Salomon grew up in the German Allgäu. He received his Abitur in 1979 in Oberstdorf and moved to Freiburg to study Political Science, Public Finance and Roman Philology. He received a Dr. Phil from the University of Freiburg in 1991. During his time as a student he became active in the local chapter of the Alliance '90/The Greens.

He is married to Helen Hall-Salomon and has one child from a previous marriage.

Political career

From 1990 until 2000 he was a member of Freiburg city council, and was a member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg from 1992. From April 2002, he was the head of the Baden-Württemberg Green Party fraction and lead candidate for state elections.

He became mayor of Freiburg on July 1, 2002, after receiving 64.4% of votes on the second ballot held May 5, 2002, thereby becoming the first Green mayor of a large German city and only the second or third in the whole of Germany. Once elected mayor of Freiburg, he resigned his position in the Landtag. Within the Green Party, he is considered a Realo.

Written Works

• Salomon, Dieter (1992) (in German). Grüne Theorie und graue Wirklichkeit: die Grünen und die Basisdemokratie. Freiburg: Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut. ISBN 9783928597036. OCLC 32350409. 
• Thaa, Winfried; Salomon, Dieter; Gräber, Gerhard (1994) (in German). Grüne an der Macht: Widerstände und Chancen grün-alternativer Regierungsbeteiligungen. Cologne: Bund-Verlag. ISBN 9783766325211. OCLC 31605999. 

External links

• Performance monitor for Dieter Salomon
• Personal website