Overview

• Delegates confirmed the leadership change as Timon Gremmels, after six years as chair, did not seek re-election following prior internal criticism.
• The district expanded its executive from four to seven posts and filled them with Marcel Brückmann (85%), Latif Hamamiyeh Al-Homssi (83.8%), Finja Müller (80.9%), Philipp Rottwilm (71%), and Tanja Hartdegen (66.1%).
• Spies had served as a deputy to Gremmels and is currently Marburg’s lord mayor.
• The Baunatal congress drew 219 delegates who worked through a 154-page motion book including a lead proposal to channel 77% of federal special-fund money to municipalities.
• Hessen SPD chair Sören Bartol and Economics Minister Kaweh Mansoori attended, underscoring the district vote’s wider relevance within the party.