Lord Mayor
Dear people of Chemnitz,
I have been Lord Mayor of the City of Chemnitz since 2006. In this office, I am committed to the well-being of our city and, above all, to you. In my daily work, I am guided by the question of how we can achieve the best for Chemnitz together.
Citizen participation is therefore not an end in itself, but an important building block for me: residents' meetings, citizens' consultations and petitions are just some of the ways that guarantee you access to politics in the town hall and ensure that you can play an active role. The second essential building block is transparency: I want our administrative actions to be comprehensible.
This demand for transparency also applies to me personally: anyone who holds a public office, as I do, must fulfil these requirements to a particularly high degree. As Mayor of Chemnitz, I work for you and on your behalf. That is why I would like to explain my income to you openly and clearly.
In accordance with the Municipal Salary Ordinance of the Free State of Saxony, I received a salary of 104,274.47 euros in 2011 for my work as Lord Mayor in accordance with salary group B8. This sum is of course subject to income tax.
In addition, as Lord Mayor of Chemnitz, I also carry out ancillary activities for official reasons, activities in the main office or public honorary posts. I receive expense allowances and remuneration for some of these offices. For 2011, I paid 6241.60 euros of this to the budget of the City of Chemnitz. I naturally pay tax on the amounts that remain to me personally, as well as on my annual income.
The State Directorate of Saxony checks the amount of the payments to the city budget in accordance with the Saxon Secondary Employment Ordinance and confirms the correctness in a notice each year.
You can read the details in the following list. Like many of you, I am also a simple member of an association, for example the Friends and Sponsors of the Art Collections or the Chemnitz University of Technology.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Please write to me at or by post to
City of Chemnitz
Lord Mayor Barbara Ludwig
Market 1
09111 Chemnitz
Kind regards
Yours, Barbara Ludwig