Roland Ries

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Roland Ries
Roland Ries in 2016
Mayor of Strasbourg
In office
22 March 2008 – 4 July 2020
Preceded byFabienne Keller
Succeeded byJeanne Barseghian
In office
27 June 1997 – 25 June 2000
Preceded byCatherine Trautmann
Succeeded byCatherine Trautmann
Personal details
Born (1945-01-11) 11 January 1945 (age 79)
Niederlauterbach, France
Political partySocialist Party
Alma materUniversity of Strasbourg

Roland Ries (born 11 January 1945) is a French politician from Alsace who has held several posts on local, regional and national level between 1997 and 2020.

A member of the

Urban Community of Strasbourg) between June 1997 and January 2000, filling in for Catherine Trautmann (whose deputy he had been since 1989)[3] after she had become Minister of Culture and Communication in the government of Lionel Jospin.[4]

Ries has furthermore been a Member of the

Senate of France for the Bas-Rhin department between September and November 2004 and is again a Member since February 2005.[5] Since 24 September 2008, Roland Ries is the president of the Association TGV Est-Européen.[6] and was elected a member of the board of directors of the SNCF for a period of five years starting on 8 March 2013.[7] Additionally, he served as the chairman of the Groupement des autorités responsables de transport (GART) from September 2008 until September 2014[8] and was elected president of the network of French cities Cités unies France in July 2014, for a duration of two years.[9]

Political career

Member of the

French Economic and Social Council
 : 2001-2003.

Electoral mandates

Senate of France

Senator of Bas-Rhin : Since 2004. Elected in 2004.

Regional council

Regional councillor of Alsace : 1996-2004 (Resignation). Reelected in 1998, 2004.

Urban Community council

President of the

Urban Community of Strasbourg
 : 1997-2001.

1st vice-président of the

Urban Community of Strasbourg
 : Since 2008.

Vice-président of the

Urban Community of Strasbourg
 : 1989-1997. Reelected in 1995.

Member of the

Urban Community of Strasbourg
 : Since 1989. Reelected in 1995, 2001, 2008.

Municipal council

Mayor of Strasbourg : 1997-2000 / Since 2008. Reelected in 2008, 2014.

1st deputy-mayor of Strasbourg : 1989-1997. Reelected in 1995.

Municipal councillor of Strasbourg : Since 1983. Reelected in 1989, 1995, 2001, 2008.

Eurodistrict council

President of the

Strasbourg-Ortenau Eurodistrict
 : since 2010

References

  1. ^ Jacques Fortier (2008-03-16). "La gauche reprend Strasbourg" (in French). Le Monde. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
  2. ^ Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau / Séance inaugurale du conseil, Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, 5 February 2010 (in French)
  3. ^ Roland Ries Archived 2016-03-13 at the Wayback Machine, actupolitique.net (in French)
  4. ^ La longue marche de Roland Ries, nouveau maire de Strasbourg, Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, 17 March 2008 (in French)
  5. ^ RIES Roland, Sénateur du Bas-Rhin (Alsace), www.senat.fr (in French)
  6. ^ Communiqué de l’Association TGV Est-Européen réunie en Assemblée générale le 24 septembre 2008 (in French)
  7. ^ Roland Ries entre au conseil d'administration de la SNCF Archived 2013-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, mobilicites.com, 8 March 2013 (in French)
  8. ^ Elected in September 2008 Re-elected in September 2011 Archived 2015-09-26 at the Wayback Machine Successor Louis Nègre elected in September 2014 (all retrieved on 25 September 2015)
  9. ^ Roland Ries, nouveau président de Cités Unies France, dna.fr, retrieved on 26 July 2014 (in French); Roland Ries, sénateur-maire de Strasbourg, élu président de Cités Unies France, uclg.org/, retrieved on 26 July 2014 (in French)
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