Dominic Samuel Fritz (born 28 December 1983) is a German-born politician who has been serving as the mayor of Timișoara since 2020, winning reelection in 2024.

[2] 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 (whose parents were relocated to Nazi Germany from Rîșcani, northern Bessarabia, now Republic of Moldova) between 2016 and 2019.

[5] Amid the countrywide anti-corruption protests in the winter of 2017, he joined the liberal party Save Romania Union (USR), which nominated him as a candidate for the upcoming local election,[15] for which he moved from Berlin to Timișoara in 2019.

In the 27 September 2020 election, Fritz won with 53.25% of the votes against incumbent Nicolae Robu, the National Liberal Party (PNL) candidate, who had sought a third term in office.

[16] Robu, former rector of the Politehnica University of Timișoara, had previously refused an electoral debate with Fritz and in a nationalist campaign[17] called him a "foreign adventurer" who regarded Romania as a cow to be milked.

Its main objectives are buying vital equipment for Ukraine and developing a complex system for receiving, supporting and integrating refugees arriving in Timișoara.

Being a vocal campaigner for a less car-centric urban mobility,[23] he has attracted European funding from the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Romania (PNRR) in order to renew the city's public transport fleet.

He also sang in semi-professional choirs, conducted several ensembles, composed choral music and published two CDs with his own compositions in Germany.