Axel Dirx

Axel Dirx (born August 20, 1946 in Wuppertal ; † February 9, 2017 ) was a German politician of the SPD and a union official of IG Metall .

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Axel Dirx was the son of the painter Willi Dirx and the author Ruth Dirx . He attended the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium . From 1966 he studied social sciences in Bochum and Göttingen and graduated in 1971 with a degree in social economics .

Axel Dirx became a member of the SPD and IG Metall in 1967. Until 1983 he worked as a teacher at the IG Metall education center in Sprockhövel and until 2004 in positions of IG Metall Wuppertal. During this time he was an assessor in the sub-district executive committee of the SPD Wuppertal from 1995 to 2002 .

From 2000 to 2005 Dirx was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia with a direct mandate from the constituency of Solingen I - Wuppertal IV , where he was a member of the committee for economy, medium-sized companies and technology and the petitions committee of the state parliament. He did not run again as a candidate for the 2005 state election.

Axel Dirx was committed to preserving the artistic works of his father Willi Dirx. In 2004 he put together an exhibition of woodcuts and linocuts from the cycle "Die Wupper", which was shown on the occasion of the performance of the play Die Wupper by Else Lasker-Schüler in the Schauspielhaus Wuppertal , where it was delivered in 1966 when the theater opened was seen.

Axel Dirx was married to Gerda Dirx and has three children.

Web links

• Axel Dirx at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice
2. ↑ Axel Dirx passed away ( Memento of the original from July 5, 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. on wuppertal-total.de, February 21, 2017