Munich's city council adopts deserved members - farewell with honors!

Munich's city council adopts deserved members - farewell with honors!

München, Deutschland - On May 28, 2025, the city council of Munich passed two versatile and committed members: Anna Hanusch from the Greens and Hans Theiss from the CSU. The farewell took place as part of an official session in which Mayor Dominik Krause Hanusch praised for her upcoming move to Braunschweig, where she will act as a departmental for the environment, city green and building construction. He emphasized this as a lucky charm, especially in view of the relegation of Braunschweig in the 2nd Bundesliga.

Anna Hanusch, born in Kassel in 1976 and grew up on Schliersee and Bayreuth, has been the city councilor in Munich since May 2014. During her time in the city council, she was chair of the green/pink faction and chair of the district committee Neuhausen-Nymphenburg for two years. Their focuses were in intelligent urban development, implementation of sustainable ecological building and the turn of the mobility to make Munich sustainable. In a review of her term in office, she expressed the conviction that the city council connects more than separates and everyone acts in the interests of the city.

merits by Hans Theiss

Hans Theiss, who has now moved to the Bundestag, has also been active in the city council since 2014, most recently as deputy group leader of the CSU. CSU boss Manuel Pretzl praised Theiss ’significant merits, especially in the renovation of the Munich Clinic. As a sign of appreciation, he received the "Munich shines" medal.

The successor in the city council group is taken over by Michael Haberland (CSU) and Linda Faltin (Greens). Both successors have the task of continuing the agenda of their predecessors, which focused primarily on sustainable urban development.

sustainable urban planning in Munich

In the context of sustainable urban development, Munich pursues clear goals to create a dense and lively mixture of living, working, shopping and leisure. The planning strategy focuses on short distances to minimize traffic and emissions. This also includes essential elements such as barrier -free infrastructure and a good connection to public transport.

The city is also particularly important to the city, schools, green spaces and meeting places in public space. Munich has been setting climate protection as an integral part of all development plan procedures since 2021, while the mandatory implementation of photovoltaic systems on roofs in new development areas is promoted. By 2030, all residential buildings of the municipal housing associations GWG and Gewofag are to be equipped with photovoltaics.

The city of Munich has undertaken to pursue a superordinate interest in sustainable building and to use an ecological criteria catalog in order to promote environmentally friendly construction on urban land since 1995. The goals also include a redistribution of public space and the strengthening of democracy through more transparency in the city administration. Together with various actors, urban planning is continuously improved and adapted.

Overall, the change from Anna Hanusch and Hans Theiss is a drastic moment for the Munich city council, which will shape both the challenges and the opportunities of urban development in the coming years.