Bernd Hinz

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Bernd Hinz (born July 20, 1947 in Cologne ) is a German expellee politician (non-party), museum founder and publicist .

Life

Hinz grew up as the child of an East Prussian father and a mother from the Rhineland in Cologne and graduated from the Schiller-Gymnasium in Cologne in 1968 . He studied law, French and history at the Universities of Cologne and Regensburg . He passed the first state examination in 1977 in Cologne and the second state examination in 1980 in Düsseldorf . He then worked as the head of legal and personnel administration in a medium-sized company. Then he moved to the legal office of the city of Mönchengladbach as legal counsel . Until his retirement in 2016, he was the chief city law director and official head of the legal office and head ofAnti-corruption agency . Hinz has been married since 1982 and now lives in Hürth .

Public offices

Hinz has been a member of the district committee and district council of the East Prussian district community Prussian Holland since 1969, the community of Germans who fled from the historic East Prussian district of Prussian Holland or who still live there today. From 1971 to 1980 he served as deputy district chairman, since 1980 as home district representative (chairman) for Prussian Holland. Hinz acquired a historic aristocratic palace Hinterm Klosterhof from the city of Itzehoe , the godfather city of East Prussia from Prussian Holland, renovated it and expanded it into the House of Homeland , the museum of the district community. The Haus der Heimat takes part in the city's central cultural events, offers temporary exhibitions, organizes readings and is a member of the Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg Museum Association . As district representative, Bernd Hinz has sustainably expanded relations with the city of Pasłęk , the historic Prussian Holland, and with the Elbing District. Among other things, he founded the equal partnership of the district community with the city of Paslek (1998) and the district of Elbing (2003). The renovation of two historic city gates and part of the city wall of Paslek go back to his work - in 2001, as a result of his work, he was given honorary citizenship of the city.

From 1986 to 2005 Hinz was a member of the federal board of the Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen (LO), from 1992 as deputy spokesman. In 2000 he founded the German-Polish Local Political Congress, at which German home district representatives discuss local and European issues in order to achieve rapprochement on a political level. In 2005 there was a falling out with the spokesman for East Prussia, Wilhelm von Gottberg , as well as a majority in the East Prussian state representation, the highest decision-making body of the LO, about the future-oriented policy of the Republic of Poland . Hinz resigned as the LO's deputy spokesman and transferred the German-Polish Congress of Local Politics to the German-Polish Working Group on Local Political Partnership (AKP), which he, the Allenstein District Administrator Adam Sierzputowski and the journalist Bernhard Knapstein founded in October 2005. Under Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble , the promotion of the AKP Congress was introduced as an important contribution to German-Polish understanding.

Hinz has also been chairman of the AKP since 2005 and has been a member of the German-Polish committee of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) since 2012 . Since 2018 he has also been working on the committee for interregional cooperation of the German-Polish government commission. The AKP strives to bring together German and Polish district administrators and mayors who maintain or strive for partnership relationships, to intensify the exchange of experiences, to strengthen partnership work and to involve both the German minority in Poland and dialogue-oriented representatives of East German homeland districts as bridge builders. Notwithstanding the involvement of representatives of the expellees, Polish diplomats in the Federal Republic and German diplomats in the Republic of Poland also take part in the AKP's annual local political congresses.

In the Association of Expellees (BdV) he was a member of the executive committee from 1994 to 2006 and was responsible for relations with the Republic of Poland. From 2000 to 2004 he was also a member of the Advisory Board for Displaced Persons of the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

In the Humanitarian Grand Priory Europe of the Order of Lazarus, Hinz, who was the initiator of the establishment of eight humanitarian welfare stations in the former southern East Prussia, is a Chevalier (knight) and on the board is Prior (commanding officer).

Honors

  • 1999 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2001 honorary citizen of the Polish city of Paslek (Pr. Holland)
  • 2003 Medal of Merit of the Lazarus Relief Organization / Order of Lazarus for aid to Poland
  • 2015 Bronze Honor Wolf of the Polish District of Johannisburg ( Powiat Piski )
  • 2015 Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2017 Order of Merit of the Polish District of Elblag (Elbing)

Editing

Bernd Hinz has been editor of the following publications since 1980:

  • The home letter of the district of Pr. Holland , a cultural-historical annual journal, since 1983/84
  • District and city of Prussian Holland between Drausensee and Passarge . "Photo book". Compiled and provided with texts by Helmut Jänecke, Martin Lassen and Klaus Schroeter. Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg, Leer 1981, ISBN 978-3-7921-0258-9 .
  • Loyalty and home. Festschrift for the 30th anniversary of the sponsorship . Compiled and edited by Bernd Hinz. Self-published by the district community Pr. Holland, 1983 Mönchengladbach
  • Guido Stark: History of the City of Mühlhausen in East Prussia. Reprint of the first edition 1927, self-published by the district community Pr. Holland, Cologne 1987, ISBN 978-3-926582-01-0 .
  • The history of the city of Prussian Holland by Robert Helwig. 3rd revised and expanded edition by Bernd Hinz. Self-published by the district community Pr. Holland, 1987 Mönchengladbach
  • The Prussian Holland district in pictures . Compiled and edited by Bernd Hinz. Self-published by the district community Pr. Holland, 1992 Cologne
  • The home letter of the Preußisch Holland district Volume I (Issues 1–5). Compiled and edited by Bernd Hinz. Self-published by the district community Pr. Holland, 1993 Cologne
  • The home letter of the Preussisch Holland district Volume II (Issues 6-10). Compiled and edited by Bernd Hinz. Self-published by the district community Pr. Holland, 1994 Cologne
  • Deutschendorf, district of Pr. Holland / East Prussia. According to sources and individual reports, the oldest possessions of the Burgraves and Counts zu Dohna in Prussia. Compiled and edited by Erich Reuss. Self-published by the district community Pr. Holland, 1994 Mönchengladbach
  • Grünhagen with the places of the parish, district Pr. Holland / East Prussia. Compiled by Georg Schneider. Self-published by the district community Pr. Holland, 1995 Mönchengladbach
  • Prussian Holland today - our home in pictures by Bernd Hinz and Fritz Folger. Self-published by the district community Pr. Holland, 1997 Mönchengladbach
  • Reichenbach with the places of the parish, district Pr. Holland / East Prussia. Compiled and edited by Peter Wenzel and Bernd Hinz, 1997 Mönchengladbach
  • The home letter of the Preußisch Holland district Volume III (Issues 11–15), compiled and edited by Bernd Hinz. Self-published by the district community Pr. Holland, 1999 Cologne.
  • Chronicle of the parishes of Schmauch and Reichwalde. Edited by Kurt Jordan, 2003 Mönchengladbach
  • The home letter of the Preußisch Holland district Volume IV (Issues 16-20), compiled and edited by Bernd Hinz. Self-published by the district community Pr. Holland, 2005 Cologne.
  • Overcoming boundaries in dialogue. German-Polish neighborhood and communal cooperation in Europe (D / PL), Bernd Hinz (Ed.), 2006 Hürth / Allenstein
  • Preserving history - shaping the future. Monument protection and economic development. German-Polish municipal partnerships for Europe (D / PL), Bernd Hinz (Ed.), 2005 Cologne
  • Chronicle of the parish of Königsblumenau , compiled and edited by Horst Zlomke, 2008
  • German-Polish partnerships. Expansion and design of the most important connections between Germany and Poland . / Partnerstwa polsko-niemieckie. Rozbudowa i kształtowanie najważniejszych powiązań między Polską a Niemcami., Bernd Hinz (Ed.), 2008 Hürth
  • The home letter of the district of Preussisch Holland Volume V (Issues 21-25), compiled and edited by Bernd Hinz, self-published by the district community Pr. Holland, 2009 Cologne
  • United Europe. New challenges for the German-Polish partnerships. / Zjednoczona Europe. Nowe wyzwania dla partnerstw polsko-niemieckich. Bernd Hinz (Ed.), 2009 Hürth
  • The Haus der Heimat - Museum of the District Community of Pr. Holland, compiled and edited by Monika and Bernd Hinz, 2010 Mönchengladbach
  • The process of German-Polish understanding over the past two decades . Review of what has been achieved and outlook. / Proces polsko-niemieckiego porozumienia podczas ostatnich dwóch dekad. Ocena osiągnięć i perspektywy na przyszłość, Bernd Hinz (Ed.), 2011 Hürth
  • 20 years of the German-Polish neighborhood agreement. Inventory and outlook. / 20 lat polsko-niemieckiego traktatu o dobrym sąsiedztwie i Ogląd sytuacji i perspektywy na przyszłość, Bernd Hinz and Bernhard Knapstein (eds.), 2012 Hürth
  • The home letter of the Prussian Holland district, Volume VI (Issues 26–30), compiled and edited by Bernd Hinz, self-published by the Pr. Holland district community, 2016 Hürth
  • Accepting challenges, cultivating the European spirit. 25 years of German-Polish neighborhood. Podjac wyzwania, kultywowac europejskiego ducha. 25 lat polsko-niemieckiego sasiedztwa. , Bernd Hinz (Ed.), 2017 Hürth / Schneverdingen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ genial-nah from March 17, 2016 ( memento of the original from December 1, 2016 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. , accessed November 30, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / genial-nah.de
  2. ^ Website of the Preußisch Holland district community. Accessed November 30, 2016
  3. ↑ Information on the website of the city of Itzehoe , accessed on December 3, 2016
  4. ↑ Proof at the Museumsverband Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg eV on the web. Accessed on November 29, 2016
  5. ↑ partnership agreement with the city Paslek Accessed on November 30, 2016
  6. ↑ Bernhard Knapstein: Dialogue in New Dimensions, in: Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung of October 8, 2005, p. 5 Accessed on November 29, 2016
  7. ↑ cf. In Dialogue overcoming borders / Przezwyciezyc granice poprzez dialog, Bernd Hinz (Ed.), Hürth / Olsztyn 2006, p. 38 Accessed on November 29, 2016
  8. ↑ AKP website. Accessed November 29, 2016
  9. ↑ Website of the city Paslek / freeman Accessed on November 29, 2016
  10. ↑ Report on the award on Pisz.wm.pl.Retrieved on November 29, 2016
  11. ↑ Nachrichten.net - Federal Cross of Merit - Bernd Hinz Accessed on November 28, 2016
  12. ↑ Publication as PDF Accessed December 6, 2016
  13. ↑ Publication as PDF Accessed on November 29, 2016
  14. ↑ Publication as PDF Accessed on November 29, 2016
  15. ↑ Publication as PDF Accessed on November 29, 2016
  16. ↑ Publication as PDF Accessed on November 29, 2016
  17. ↑ Publication as PDF Accessed on November 29, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Hinz, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expellee politician (independent), museum founder and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne