Bernd Vöhringer

Dr. Bernd Vöhringer is Lord Mayor of Sindelfingen, a medium-sized city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He studied Economics at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart where he also completed his PhD on information and communication technology within the New Public Management in 2003. From 1994 to 2000 he was elected city councilor of Sindelfingen. In 2001 he was elected as Lord Mayor and reelected in 2009 and 2016. Dr. Vöhringer is politically very committed to European and global issues. For many years he served as President of the EPP Group and Head of the German delegation to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in the Council of Europe. Since 2021 he serves as President of the Chamber of local authorities of the Congress at the Council of Europe.