Editing Delitzsch (section)

==Politics==

=== Town council ===
The [[town council]] consists of the [[lord mayor]] and 30 town councillors. Every five years, the town council is chosen anew. The inaugural meeting of newly elected council always takes place in the conference hall of the city hall. The current council has been in place since the last local election (held on 26 May 2019), and is constituted as follows:

{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center
|- class="hintergrundfarbe5"
! colspan="2"| Party
! % of vote<br />2019
! Seats<br />2019
! % of vote<br />2014{{refn|group=note|Percentages are rounded}}
! Seats<br />2014
! % of vote <br />2009
! Seats<br />2009
|-
| align=left | CDU
| align=left | [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]]
| 25,9 %
| 8
| 34,4 %
| 11
| 34,9 %
| 11
|-
| align=left | FWG
| align=left | [[Free Voters|FWG]]
| 23,3 %
| 7
| 18,5 %
| 6
| 14,6 %
| 4
|-
| align=left | AfD
| align=left | [[Alternative for Germany]]
| 16,0 %
| 5
| –
| –
| –
| –
|-
| align=left | SPD
| align=left | [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]]
| 14,3 %
| 4
| 20,5 %
| 6
| 20,5 %
| 7
|-
| align=left | LINKE
| align=left | [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]]
| 10,0 %
| 3
| 15,6 %
| 5
| {{0}}8,9 %
| 6
|-
| align=left | BI
| align=left | Bürgerinitiative Menschenskinder e.V.
| {{0}}3,9 %
| 1
| –
| –
| –
| –
|-
| align=left | HV
| align=left | Heimatverein Döbernitz e.V.
| {{0}}3,5 %
| 1
| {{0}}3,3 %
| 1
| {{0}}2,7 %
| 0
|-
| align=left | GRÜNE
| align=left | [[Alliance 90/The Greens]]
| {{0}}3,1 %
| 1
| {{0}}2,4 %
| 0
| –
| –
|-
| align=left | NPD
| align=left | [[National Democratic Party of Germany|NPD]]
| –
| –
| {{0}}4,4 %
| 1 {{refn|group=note|The elected representative left the NPD in January 2015 and remained as an independent until the May 2019 election]]}}
| {{0}}3,8 %
| 1
|-
| align=left | FDP
| align=left | [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|FDP]]
| –
| –
| {{0}}1,0 %
| 0
| {{0}}4,6 %
| 1
|-
|- class="hintergrundfarbe5"
! style="text-align:left" colspan="2" |Total
! 100%
! 30
! 100%
! 30
! 100%
! 30
|- class="hintergrundfarbe5"
! style="text-align:left" colspan="2" |% of Vote
! colspan="2"  | 53,7 %
! colspan="2"  | 42,4 %
! colspan="2"  | 39,5 %
|}
{{reflist|group=note}}
The next council elections are scheduled for 2024.

=== Mayor ===
* Arno Erhardt: 1945
* Richard Hampe: 1945-1950
* Paul Heinze: 1951-1952
* Walter Lange: 1952-1956
* Rudolf Kunath: 1956-1959
* Otto Paul: 1960-1973
* Hans-Joachim Kumrow: 1973-1977
* Wolfgang Neubert: 1977-1979
* Karl Lubienski: 1979-1990
* Heinz Bieniek: 1990-2008

Historian Manfred Wilde (born 1962) won the mayoral election in 2008 with 60.2 percent of the votes cast.

=== Coat of Arms ===
The emblem of the town Delitzsch combines two different arms, the house of Wettin or tribal emblem and the County of the Mark Meissen. It shows two upright poles blue (Landsberger piles) that are in a golden box, and this split in three parts. In the middle of the main shield of the emblem can be seen in an inclined position as a means to shield Meissen black lion on a golden shield. The middle blade is tilted forward, and so the lion appears as upright as possible, or borders. He has two tail tuft, with their division begins in the middle of the tail, which should point to the Mark Meissen County. As an accessory, the coat of arms (1526 introduced) a fluttering ribbon bearing the inscription: "Secretum civium in delitzsch" (loosely translated: Privy Seal of Delitzsch).