New head for the Office for Land Management and Geoinformation

20.06.2023

André Dornbusch-Schwickerath will be the new head of the Office for Land Management and Geoinformation of the City of Bonn. At its meeting on June 19, 2023, the Bonn City Council accepted the appointment proposed by the city administration.

André Dornbusch-Schwickerath becomes the new head of the Office for Land Management and Geoinformation.

New head of the Office for Land Management and Geoinformation: André Dornbusch-Schwickerath.

The office's approximately 100 employees work in the areas of real estate cadastre, surveying, land regulation and land valuation as well as geoinformation, urban cartography and statistics. The office provides the corresponding data basis for a large number of measures as part of the Smart City strategy and actively drives innovation with regard to urban data management.

"As the new head of the office, my mission is to further advance our existing services and to implement seamless digitalization and urban data management (UDM) in a holistic manner. I am firmly convinced that we can bring about positive change as a team by joining forces and developing innovative solutions. My focus is on open communication, appreciation and promoting the potential of each individual employee. I am very much looking forward to the new tasks and my new role in the office," says André Dornbusch-Schwickerath.

After studying surveying and obtaining a degree in business administration (VWA), André Dornbusch-Schwickerath studied geoinformatics at Mainz University of Applied Sciences from 2009 to 2011. Building on this, he successfully completed his traineeship for the higher surveying service in 2013. The now 46-year-old worked at the Rhineland-Palatinate State Surveying Office from 2001. Among other things, he was employed in the IT department as a project manager for networks and later headed the project group for the "EU call for tenders for new field computer systems".

In 2014, André Dornbusch-Schwickerath moved to the Rhine-Erft district and took over the management of the Surveying and Geoinformation Department and the role of GIS Manager at the Office for Real Estate Cadastre and Geoinformation. In September 2020, he was appointed Head of the Real Estate Cadastre Department. He has also held the position of Deputy Head of Department since January 2018.

Since moving to the City of Bonn in August 2021, André Dornbusch-Schwickerath has been head of the Surveying Department at the Office of Land Management and Geoinformation. In addition, in February 2022, he and a colleague were temporarily appointed to head the office after the previous head of office retired.