A councilman is (male) a member of the society of a municipality, an urban municipality, which of his fellow citizens in the advice or town councillor, that was selected parliament of a municipality.

The councilman is usually member of a party. In the advice work it serves in usually several council committees, which prepare the entire advice decision collecting mains.

In Germany councillors are usually selected every five years. The advice activity is an honorary office. Only over extended tasks and/or an extended area of responsibility it is possible to exercise the advice mandate as Vollzeit Berufspoltiker without other acquisition work: as a leader of the parliamentary group or as full-time mayors.

Sexual counterpart to the councilman is the advice woman. The neutral expression is councillor or town councillor.

History

In history councilmen often also into the town councillor (or also senate) to have been appointed, instead of by the fellow citizens have been selected. Typical examples are the city councils in the old Greece and in Rome, in which one could only be councilman or senator, by not being dependent on Broterwerb by this activity, or the town councillors of the Hanseatic cities talented with the municipal law, which kooptierten in the death new councilmen into the committee and nearly always complemented each other from members of the Kaufmannschaft.

The separation of the terms is interesting: the Hanseatic cities call their town councillors senate. The "“senators"” however are there not the town councillors, but (mostly on 12 years of the town councillor or senate selected) local the polling clerks, who are called in another place "“departmental head"”.

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