Tim Kurzbach. Tim-Oliver Kurzbach (born 27 April 1978) is a German politician who has been the mayor of the city of Solingen in North Rhine-Westphalia since 2015. Background, schooling, professional activities, and personal life Tim Kurzbach, the son of a mechanic and a housewife, grew up with his younger brother in a Catholic, middle-class family in the Solingen neighborhood of Ohligs. From 1984 to 1988 he attended the community elementary school on Solingen's S??dstra??e. Until 1991 he was an altar server under Monsignor Heinz-Manfred Jansen in the Catholic church community St. Joseph in Solingen-Ohligs. In 1988, Kurzbach transferred to the Albert-Schweitzer Secondary School in Solingen-Wald, where he graduated with a vocational school certificate in 1994. When he was in secondary school, he was...
