Editing Bayreuth (section)

==Politics==
The current [[Member of the German Bundestag]] for [[Bayreuth (electoral district)|Bayreuth]] is [[Silke Launert]] from the [[Christian Social Union in Bavaria]].

===Town council===
[[File:Rathaus Bayreuth.JPG|thumb|upright|The town hall]]
The results of the 2020 local elections in Bavaria were as follows (in brackets the change from the 2014 elections):
* [[Christian Social Union of Bavaria|CSU]]: 24.1% (−5.8), 10 seats (−3)
* [[Bündnis 90/Die Grünen|Alliance 90/The Greens]]: 18.0% (+6.3), 8 seats (+3)
* [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]]: 17.7% (−3.5), 8 seats (−1)
* BG – FW: 15,3% (−1.9), 7 seats (−1)
* Young Bayreuth: 6.5% (−0,4), 3 seats (=)
* [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|FDP]]: 5.3% (−0.5), 2 seats (−1)
* The Independents: 5.0% (+0.2), 2 seats (=)
* [[Alternative for Germany|AfD]]: 3.9% (+3.9), 2 seats (+2)
* Women's Party: 2.4% (+2.4), 1 seat (+1)
* [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]]: 1.7% (+1.7), 1 seat (+1)

===(Lord) Mayors of Bayreuth since 1818===
* 1818–1848: Erhard Christian Hagen von Hagenfels (First legally trained mayor)
* 1851–1863: Friedrich Karl Dilchert (civic mayor)
* 1863–1900: Theodor von Muncker (legally trained mayor)
* 1900–1918: Leopold von Casselmann (legally trained mayor, lord mayor from 1907)
* 1919–30 April 1933: Albert Preu (lord mayor)
* 1 May 1933 – June 1937: Karl Schlumprecht (lord mayor; NSDAP)
* 21 July 1937 – April 1938: Otto Schmidt (lord mayor; NSDAP)
* 3 May 1938 – 30 June 1938: Fritz Wächtler (Gauleiter, self-proclaimed commissarial lord mayor; NSDAP)
* 1 July 1938 – April 1945: Fritz Kempfler (lord mayor; NSDAP)
* 24 April 1945 – November 1945: Joseph Kauper (lord mayor)
* November 1945–30 June 1948: Oscar Meyer (lord mayor)
* 1 July 1948 – 30 April 1958: Hans Rollwagen (lord mayor; SPD)
* 1 May 1958 – 30 April 1988: Hans Walter Wild (lord mayor; SPD)
* 1 May 1988 – 30 April 2006: Dieter Mronz (lord mayor; SPD)
* 1 May 2006 – 30 April 2012: Michael Hohl (lord mayor; CSU)
* 1 May 2012 – 30 April 2020: Brigitte Merk-Erbe (lord mayor; BG)
* since 1 May 2020: Thomas Ebersberger (lord mayor; CSU)

===Sponsorship===
In 1955 Bayreuth took on sponsorship for displaced [[Sudeten Germans]] from the town of [[Franzensbad]] in Okres Cheb.

===Coat of arms===
Margrave Albert Achilles, who was also Elector of [[Electorate of Brandenburg|Brandenburg]], presented the town of Bayreuth in December 1457 with the coat of arms that it still bears today. Two fields show the black and white coat of arms of the Hohenzollerns. The black lion on gold with a red and white border was the municipal coat of arms of the burgraves of Nuremberg. Along the two diagonals are two ''Reuten'', small triangular shovels with a slightly bent shaft. They represent the ending ''-reuth'' in the town's name."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bayreuth.de/dlc/284/download.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-09-18 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206152052/http://bayreuth.de/dlc/284/download.htm |archive-date=6 December 2010}}</ref>