Arno Krause

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Portrait of Arno Krause (2000)
European Academy Otzenhausen (2002)

Arno Krause (born May 2, 1930 in Saarbrücken ; † January 12, 2018 there ) was the founder and chairman of the European Academy in Otzenhausen .

biography

In 1948 he completed his professional training as a banker . He then worked in this profession until 1951. In 1949, together with like-minded people, he founded the Saarland section of the European Union in Germany, of which he became the first chairman of the youth organization “Youth of the European Union in Saarland ”.

1951–1955 he was Secretary General of the "Europa-Union im Saarland". During the same period he was responsible for the planning and construction of the new “Europa-Haus Otzenhausen”; after its completion he managed the operation of this meeting place for European youth.

1957–1959 Krause was the deputy federal chairman of the “Young European Federalists Germany”. During the same period he worked as a consultant for political education in the General Secretariat of the Europa-Union Deutschland in Bonn . Since 1959 he was a member of the board of directors of the “ Institute for European Politics e. V. “(Berlin), which as a non-profit organization pursues the goal of promoting European integration . In 1962 Krause co-founded the “International Federation of European Houses” (FIME), an association of European educational institutions that operate across Europe.

In 1962 he was elected chairman of the European Union of Germany in Saarland; he held this office until 1993. In 1964 he became Vice President of the Europa-Union Deutschland.

In 1969 Krause took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of Asko Deutsche Kaufhaus AG and in this capacity initiated the “ Asko Europe Foundation ”, which financially supported the goals of the European Academy Otzenhausen. In the following years he took on numerous other honorary positions, which were committed to the idea of ​​a Europe growing together . From 1995 to 2012 Krause was chairman of the board of his academy.

From the earliest times, Krause's guiding principle was to promote the merging of the individual European states into a united Europe. It was clear to him that success depended on education and information for people, especially young people. His other important finding was the process of growing together. Krause implemented both findings by building the “Europahaus” in Otzenhausen in the mid-1950s.

Overview map of the European Greater Region

In addition to his pan-European guiding principle, he devoted himself increasingly to the growing together of a core European region, the Saar-Lor-Lux region . This region ( Saarland , Lorraine , Luxembourg ), together with the Belgian part of Wallonia and the adjacent western area of Rhineland-Palatinate, sees itself as the nucleus of a large-regional, cross-border new identity. Newly created political, cultural and social structures, in the creation of which Krause played a key role in numerous cases, open up the possibility for the population of this so-called Greater Region (11 million inhabitants) for daily cross-border exchange.

Honors - awards

  • 1969 Awarded the Europa Union Medal
  • 1970 Robert Schuman Medal in silver
  • 1976 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1977 Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau
  • 1982 Croix de Chevalier de l ' Ordre national du Mérite
  • 1982 Officer of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
  • 1984 Medal of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe "Pro Merito"
  • 1996 King George of Podebrady Medal ( Prague )
  • 1998 Honorary Doctor of Philosophy (Academy of Saint Cyril, Malta )
  • 1999 First Charles IV Medal ( Charles IV ), member of the Honorary Council of the Board of Trustees of the Europa-Zentrum (Prague), Honorary Council of the European Academy ( Jihlava )
  • 2000 Saarland Order of Merit
  • 2000 Officier de l'Ordre National de Mérite
  • 2000 Mérite Européen in gold
  • 2003 Order of the City of Warsaw
  • 2004 European Union Medal in gold with a star
  • 2004 Commander's Cross with Star of the Republic of Poland
  • 2009 "Unity Prize - Citizens' Prize for German Unity" from the Federal Agency for Political Education
  • 2010 Appointment as Chevalier du Tastevin by Le Grand Connétable, Louis-Marc Chavignard, Confrèrie des Chevaliers du Tastevin
  • 2011 Eugen Berl Medal - Citizen Award of the SPD district association St. Wendel
  • 2012 Willy Brandt Medal in recognition of Krause's services to the European Union

At the municipal council meeting of the municipality of Nonnweiler on June 29, 2017, Krause was granted honorary citizenship of the municipality.

Arno Krause died on January 12, 2018 after a serious illness in Saarbrücken.

literature

  • Heiner Timmermann , Hans Dieter Metz (Hrsg.): Europe - goal and task. Festschrift for Arno Krause on his 70th birthday. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-428-10174-X .
  • Arno Krause, Heiner Timmermann (ed.): In the service of Europe. 50 years of the European Academy in Otzenhausen. Gollenstein, Blieskastel 2004, ISBN 3-935731-78-7 .
  • Arno Krause, Heiner Timmermann (Ed.): Integration through convents . Vol. 1. Lit, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6525-8 . (With the text of the preliminary draft of the constitutional treaty)
  • Hans-Dieter Metz, Eva Wessela (Ed.): Arno Krause - Portrait of a European. Gollenstein Verlag, Merzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-938823-73-6 .
  • Erich Brücker: A European from the very beginning - Arno Krause . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung of November 29, 2017, page C3.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saarbrücker Zeitung, edition of July 21, 2017
  2. ↑ Saarländischer Rundfunk, January 12, 2018 ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sr.de
  3. ↑ Dietmar Klostermann: Arno Krause is dead: Saar politics mourns fighters for Europe. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. January 12, 2018, accessed January 13, 2018 .
  1. Regio-Journal, state government mourns Arno Krause , 13.01.2018
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder and chairman of the European Academy in Otzenhausen
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2018
Place of death Saarbrücken