Dominic Fritz
German-Romanian politician
Dominic Samuel Fritz (born 28 December 1983) is a German-Romanian politician who has been serving as the mayor of Timișoara since 2020, winning re-election in 2024. A member of the Save Romania Union, he was the only mayor in Romania without Romanian citizenship until December 2025, when he became a Romanian citizen.
Prior to becoming the mayor of Timișoara in 2020, Fritz was a member of Alliance 90/The Greens between 2009 and 2019 and also a political advisor to former German president Horst Köhler between 2016 and 2019. Fritz is a political scientist by profession.
On 13 June 2025, he was elected president of USR in the first round, with 67.2% of the vote
Early life and education
Fritz was born on 28 December 1983 in Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. His parents were both teachers. Fritz grew up as the third child of a total of eight siblings in Görwihl in the Southern Black Forest. In 1999, at the age of 16, a scholarship from the Bundestag enabled him to spend a year in the United States. He passed his Abitur at the Jesuit Kolleg St. Blasien in 2003.
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