Alfons Friderichs

Alfons Friderichs (born December 25, 1938 in Klotten ) is a German banker , deacon , heraldist and author .

Life

Alfons Friderichs is a son of the savings bank auditor Wilhelm Friderichs from Trier (* 1907; † missing in Russia since 1944 ) and his wife Maria geb. Göbel (1913–1984), who came from Klotten. The parents' wedding took place on May 13, 1935 in Klotten. From 1952 onwards, Friderichs was in various youth groups of the Catholic Church as a youth group leader and as a leader of children's holiday camps such as B. engaged in Sigmaringen in Luxembourg or in Lohnsburg . After completing his schooling and successfully completing an apprenticeship as a banker, he did his military service from 1960 to 1961 with the pioneers of the German Armed Forces in Koblenz. From the mid-1960s, Friderichs began his first publications and documentations on local history in art site booklets, in the editions of the home yearbooks of the Zell (Mosel) district , the Daun and Bernkastel-Wittlich districts and in the yearbooks of the Hunsrück Association. Further cultural-historical articles about people, nobility, knight families, historical buildings, monuments, clergy, monasteries and their possessions followed in magazines and daily newspapers such as the Rhein-Zeitung , the Trierischer Volksfreund , the Trierische Landeszeitung , various monthly supplements and official newsletters. From 1969 he dealt with heraldry and designed his first coat of arms for the Moselle town of Bullay, which was officially recognized by the district government in Koblenz on April 8, 1969. In total he designed over 70 other regional coats of arms in the Moselle region over the years.

In addition to his commitment at the local political level, u. a. As deputy district chairman of the CDU Cochem-Zell, he campaigned for the preservation of cultural assets from 1974 as a member of the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection. On a voluntary basis, Friderichs supported the restoration of historical buildings, such as the old city wall in Zell or Coraidelstein Castle . From 1985 to 2005 he was a member and chairman of the editorial committee of the edition of the Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell. On March 16, 1991, he was ordained a deacon in Trier Cathedral. One of the books he published, entitled Personalities of the Cochem-Zell District, from 2004, he left to the Rhineland-Palatinate Personal Database (RPPD) for free use. In 2004 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

family

Friderichs has been with Elsbeth Margarete since June 29, 1967. Kollmann (born June 6, 1942), a daughter of the married couple Jakob Kollmann and Elisabeth born. Schaefers married. From this marriage three children were born. Elsbeth Friderichs was elected in July 1969 as the first woman in a local district parliament for over 150 years and at the same time took over the chairmanship of the Cochem-Zell district council. His paternal grandfather was the former head of the viticulture school in Cochem Heinrich Josef Friderichs (1872–1952) from Ediger .

Party offices

Member of the Junge Union and the CDU since January 6, 1968
1969–1970 chairman of the JU community association in Zell
1969–1979 district treasurer and deputy CDU district chairman
1970–1974 district chairman of the Junge Union in the Cochem-Zell district
1970–1974 member of the JU district committee Koblenz- Montabaur
1972–1974 Acting member of the JU regional executive committee in Mainz for the management of the working group "Asset-Effective Benefits"
1976–1980 board member of the Zeller CDU community association
1980–1982 member of the board of directors of the district local authority association
Since March 21, 1982 deputy CDU district chairman
1988–1990 member of the CDU district committee
1987–1989 Chairman of the CDU City Association of Zell (resignation due to diaconate)

Local political offices

1970–1974 member of the Zell municipal council
1974–1990 member of the Cochem-Zell district council (resignation due to diaconate)
1974–1978 board member of the CDU district parliamentary group
1974–1978 chairman of the committee for old people's homes and care places
1980–1984 Chairman of the Committee for Monument Preservation
1974–1994 member of the district youth welfare committee. Application as a district youth worker, creation of a kindergarten on the Barl in Zell and member of the subcommittee “youth plan” from 1982 to April 1984
Since 1987 member of the district culture committee. Application for the district year books Cochem-Zell, district music school and facade competition and since August 22, 1994 deputy member.
1976–1984 and again from 1989 member of the Zell city council, from 1976–1984 and from 1989 to 1990 deputy parliamentary group chairman
From November 1982 Werner Langen's deputy on the Rhineland-Palatinate state list for the state parliament
From October 1986 on the Rhineland-Palatinate state list, 3rd A candidate for the Cochem-Zell district

Church offices

Member of the Catholic Youth in Klotten since autumn 1952
From 1957 to 1958 young parish leader and tribal leader of the KJG in Haan (Rhineland)
From 1958 to 1964 parish youth leader in Klotten
From 1968 lecturer and employee of the parish “St. Peter ”in Zell
Since April 6, 1976 member of the parish council of the dean's office in Zell
Chairman of the Parish Council of the Deanery in Zell 1980, 1984 and 1996
From 1975–1979 and 1987–1991 chairman of the first parish council in Kaimt
From 1979 to 1983 head of the Liturgy Committee in Kaimt
From 1980 in the deanery leader of seminars for priestless services
1983–1999 Head of the children's services on Christmas Eve in kaimt
From 1981 word worship with communion distribution in all parishes in Zell
1982 Admission among the candidates for permanent deacon, with the admission to lecturer and acolyte in St. Thomas by Auxiliary Bishop Kleinermeilert
1982–1984 elected spokesman for the Diakonenkreis in Trier
From 1988 to 2004 member of the Trier Catholic Council
On March 16, 1991 he was ordained a deacon in the High Cathedral of St. Peter in Trier
1993–1996 member of the “Kooporative Pastoral” working group in the Mosel-Eifel-Hunsrück region in Wittlich

heraldry

1969 Draft of his first coat of arms for the local community of Bullay (approval by the district government in Koblenz took place on April 8, 1969)
Draft of 73 further coats of arms for local communities and district coats of arms for the district of Cochem-Zell (1970) as well as for the community administration of Treis-Karden and Traben-Trarbach

Honorary positions

1969–1978 employees of the district adult education center in Cochem and the extended educational institution St. Jakobus in Zell-Kaimt, here over 40 lecture evenings with slides in different places about local history and art monuments of the district,
1969–1974 assessor in the district legal committee of Cochem-Zell
1969–1975 Honorary assessor of the drafting chamber of Defense Division IV Koblenz
Youth lay judge at the district court in Cochem
1981–1986 Member of the evaluation committee "Our village should become more beautiful"
Long-standing member and chairman of the editorial committee of the edition of the Cochem-Zell regional yearbook from 1985 to 2005
2000–2018 Deputy Chairman of the Friends of the "Synagoge Zell eV"
2005–2017 Deputy Chairman of the District Association of the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection in Cologne

Awards

May 20, 1977: Awarded the honor plate of the Rheinischer Schützenbund South Area
May 27, 1989: Medal for the exhibit "Ancient Egyptian Art" at the stamp exhibition on the occasion of the 2000 anniversary of the city of Bonn
August 16, 1999: Awarding of a certificate for 25 years of membership in the Cochem-Zell District Assembly by the Rhineland-Palatinate District Assembly

2004: Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

5 September 2012: Presentation of the Rhineland thaler of the Regional Association of the Rhineland (LVR) at the district administration Cochem

Fonts

Klotten and Coraidelstein Castle . Society for Book Printing, Neuss 1969, p. 18 . ( online) .
Alfons Friderichs u. Karl-Josef Gilles: Zell on the Mosel (Rheinische Kunststätten) . Society for Book Printing, Neuss 1975, p. 27 . ( online) .
Maria Engelport Monastery near Treis on the Moselle . Society for Book Printing, Neuss 1975, ISBN 978-3-88094-017-8 , p. 15 . ( online) .
Alfons Friderichs u. Karl-Josef Gilles: Bad Bertrich . Society for Book Printing, Neuss 1976, ISBN 978-3-88094-176-2 , p. 19 . ( online) .
Alfons Friderichs, Karl-Josef Gilles u. Wolfgang Wolpert: Ediger-Eller on the Moselle . Society for Book Printing, Neuss 1978, ISBN 978-3-88094-321-6 , p. 32 . ( online) .
Alfons Friderichs, Karl-Josef Gilles: Klotten on the Moselle with Coraidelstein Castle . Society for Book Printing, Neuss 1980, ISBN 978-3-88094-321-6 , p. 19 . ( online) .
Alfons Friderichs, Karl-Josef Gilles u. Friedrich Otto: Bad Bertrich . Society for Book Printing, Neuss 1981, ISBN 978-3-88094-392-6 , p. 19 . ( online) .
Alfons Friderichs u. Karl-Josef Gilles, revision. by Reinhold Schommers (Ed .: Rhein. Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection): Beilstein on the Mosel . Neusser Dr. u. Verl., Neuss 1987, ISBN 978-3-88094-591-3 , pp. 15 . ( online) .
Klotten and its history (for the 1300th anniversary of the place) ed. from the working group for regional history and folklore of the Trier area . Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, Briedel 1997, ISBN 978-3-929745-48-1 , p. 591 . ( online) .
Book of arms of the district of Cochem-Zell . F. Burgard, Bad Bertrich 2001, ISBN 978-3-00-008064-7 , p. 221 . ( online) .
Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district . Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 978-3-89890-084-3 , p. 398 . ( online) .
Knights, noble families and noble families in the Cochem-Zell district . Cardamina-Verlag, Weißenturm 2015, ISBN 978-3-86424-272-4 , p. 1044 . ( online) .
Sagas, legends and stories in the Cochem-Zell district . Cardamina Verlag Susanne Breuel, Weißenthurm 2017, ISBN 978-3-86424-363-9 , p. 432 . ( online) .
Prehistory and early history in the Cochem-Zell district . Cardamina-Verlag, Weißenthurm 2019, ISBN 978-3-86424-471-1 , p. 345.

literature

Ernst Schmitz: Ad multos annos! - For many years to come! For the 60th birthday of Alfons Friderichs - On Christmas Day 1998 the editor-in-chief, who was born in Klotten and lives in Zell-Barl, celebrates his 60th birthday. Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell, 1999, p. 8.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Alfons Friderichs was awarded the Rheinlandtaler on September 4, 2012
↑ Walter Gattow, Rhein-Zeitung July 15 and 16, 1969, Friderichs Elsbeth, first woman in a local district parliament for over 150 years and chair of the Cochem-Zell district council on July 14, 1969, Zell / Klotten (see KJB CZ 1994, 18)
^ Friderichs, Heinrich Josef in the RPPD

personal data
SURNAME	Friderichs, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German banker
DATE OF BIRTH	December 25, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Clothes

[1] Alfons Friderichs was awarded the Rheinlandtaler on September 4, 2012

[2] Walter Gattow, Rhein-Zeitung July 15 and 16, 1969, Friderichs Elsbeth, first woman in a local district parliament for over 150 years and chair of the Cochem-Zell district council on July 14, 1969, Zell / Klotten (see KJB CZ 1994, 18)

[3] Friderichs, Heinrich Josef in the RPPD