Mayor

The mayor assumes a central function in the context of the administration of the city. He represents the city to the outside and is responsible for conducting the business of the city as the head of city administration. He decrees the internal rules of procedure and the distribution of business for the city administration with confirmation from the City Senate. The mayor also has the power to make emergency decisions, if an urgently required decision cannot be made in time by the City Senate and the City Council.

The mayor is the chair of both the City Council and the City Senate and is responsible for the execution of resolutions from both bodies in consultation with the other members of the City Senate. Like all other members of the City Senate, the mayor is also responsible for a sector of his own. In the fulfillment of all these tasks in his area of responsibility, the mayor is accountable to the City Council.

Unlike the other decision-making bodies of the city, the mayor is not only responsible for affairs in his own sector, but is also accountable for all the tasks of the assigned sphere of operations of the city. In these matters he is bound to directives from the responsible decision-making bodies of the Federal Government and the Government of the Federal Province respectively and is accountable to these bodies.