Bezirk Oberpfalz - English
Organs of the Bezirkstag
Bezirkstag Oberpfalz (legislative period 2018/2023):
7 CSU, 3 Freie Wähler, 2 SPD, 2 Grüne, 1 FDP, 1 DIE LINKE, 2 AFD
Bezirkstag President: Franz Löffler (CSU)
Deputy of the Bezirkstag Vicepresident: Thomas Thumann (FW)
Additional deputy: Lothar Höher (CSU)
Desk officers:
Desk officer for cultural affairs: Richard Gaßner (SPD)
Desk officer for inclusion: Johann Renter (CSU)
Desk officer for fishing and environment: Thomas Ebeling (CSU)
Committees of the Bezirkstag Oberpfalz:
- District committee
- Social welfare committee
- Cultural committee
- Accounting committee
Members of the Bezirkstag Oberpfalz
(legislative period 2018/2023)
Franz Löffler, Bezirkstag President (CSU)
Thomas Thumann, Vice President, Neumarkt i. d. OPf. (FW)
Lothar Höher, Vice President, Weiden i.d. OPf. (CSU)
CSU: Toni Dutz, Wiesau, Thomas Ebeling, Schwandorf, Martin Preuß, Amberg-Sulzbach, Heidi Rackl, Neumarkt i.d. OPf., Johann Renter, Regensburg,
SPD: Richard Gaßner, Kümmersbruck,Brigitte Scharf, Erbendorf
Freie Wähler:
Tanja Schweiger, Regensburg-Land, Dr. Andreas Michelson, Regensburg
Die Grünen: Gabriele Bayer, Postbauer-Heng, Stefan Christoph, Regensburg
FDP: Stefan Potschaski, Regenstauf
AFD: Dr. Wolfgang Pöschl, Dr. Karl Schmid, Weiden i.d.OPf
No party affiliation: Marina Mühlbauer, Regensburg
Together with the Bavarian Landtag, the Bezirkstag Oberpfalz is elected by the people in direct election every five years. Above all, persons with long-term experience in local affairs such as district administrators, mayors and members of district, municipal and town councils belong to the Bezirkstag.
The Bezirk Oberpfalz
forms – together with 223 municipalities, seven administrative districts and three urban districts – the third level of local government in the Oberpfalz.
It fulfills tasks which exceed the capacity of the administrative and urban districts, above all including the following:
- social coverage of old persons, persons in need of care and disabled persons
- care for the population on the psychiatric and neurologic field
- consultancy of the Oberpfalz pond cultivators
- conservation of the cultural diversity in the Oberpfalz
- care for European cooperation
The fulfillment of these tasks is carried out by the following departments and institutions:
- Bezirk Oberpfalz – Hauptverwaltung
Ludwig-Thoma-Straße 14 93051 Regensburg Phone ++49 (0)941/9100-0 hauptverwaltung@bezirk-oberpfalz.de - Bezirk Oberpfalz – Sozialverwaltung
Ludwig-Thoma-Straße 14 93051 Regensburg Phone ++49 (0)941/9100-0 sozialverwaltung@bezirk-oberpfalz.deBezirk Oberpfalz – - Bauverwaltung
Ludwig-Thoma-Straße 14 93051 Regensburg Phone ++49 (0)941/9100-1264 - Medizinische Einrichtungen des Bezirks Oberpfalz GmbH (MedBO)
- with Bezirksklinikum Regensburg
- Bezirkskrankenhaus Parsberg
- Bezirkskrankenhaus Wöllershof and locations in Weiden, Cham, Amberg
Central adress: Universitätsstraße 84 93053 Regensburg Phone ++49 (0)941/941-0 info@medbo.de
- Kulturverwaltung (Cultural Management)
Ludwig-Thoma-Straße 14 93051 Regensburg Phone ++49 (0)941/9100-1381
kulturverwaltung@bezirk-oberpfalz.de - Sudetendeutsches Musikinstitut
Ludwig-Thoma-Straße 14 93051 Regensburg Phone ++49 (0)941/9100-1341
smi@bezirk-oberpfalz.de - Oberpfälzer Freilandmuseum Neusath-Perschen
(bei Nabburg) Neusath 200 92507 Nabburg Phone ++49 (0)9433/2442-0
freilandmuseum@bezirk-oberpfalz.de www.freilandmuseum.org - Berufsfachschule für Musik
(Vocational school for music)
Konrad-Mayer-Straße 2 92237 Sulzbach-Rosenberg Phone ++49 (0)9661/3088
bfsmusik@bezirk-oberpfalz.de www.bfsm-sulzbach.de - Fachberatung für Fischerei
(Expert advice für fishing)
Ludwig-Thoma-Straße 14 93051 Regensburg Phone ++49 (0)941/9100-1360 fachberatung@bezirk-oberpfalz.de - Teichwirtschaftlicher Beispielsbetrieb Wöllershof
(Practical advice for fishing)
92721 Störnstein Phone ++49 (0)9602/3672
The Bezirk Oberpfalz is the responsible body of the Zweckverband Sibyllenbad. In Neualbenreuth (administrative district Tirschenreuth), an „island of health and relaxation“ has been created only a few kilometres west of the world-famous Bohemian spas.
Zweckverband Sibyllenbad
Kurallee 1 95698 Neualbenreuth Phone ++49 (0)9638/933-0
info@sibyllenbad.de
www.sibyllenbad.de
The Bezirk Oberpfalz has also made an essential contribution to the development of the town of Bad Kötzting (administrative district Cham) into a modern Kneipp spa.
The Bezirk Oberpfalz moreover participates in the following administrative unions:
- Zweckverband Bayerische Musikakademie
- Schloss Alteglofsheim
- Zweckverband Oberpfälzer Seenland