Egon Kuhn

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Egon Kuhn at the cemetery of honor on the north bank of the Maschsee ;
2012 at the handover of the memorial book Ehrenfriedhof Maschsee

Egon Kuhn (born January 20, 1927 in Osnabrück ; † January 23, 2019 in Hanover ) was a German local politician , social democrat and trade unionist . As a so-called " Lindener Butjer " he organized history and cultural projects that were recognized nationwide.

Life

Egon Kuhn attended the Martin Luther School, later the Stüveschule in Osnabrück, and before graduating from school he joined the Deutscher Jungvolk and later the followers 1/78 of the Navy HJ . He began training as a technical draftsman in 1942 and at the same time attended Reichssportschule 1 “Gorch Fock” in Prieros near Königs Wusterhausen , where he successfully passed the maritime sport exams A, B and C (the latter on the sailing training ship “Horst Wessel” in Stralsund ). He underwent the nautical examination on the ocean-going yacht "Jutta". At the beginning of 1944 he was called up for alternative service of the Navy HJ - and since April 20, 1944 a member of the NSDAP - in October 1944 he was called up to the 24th ship trunk department of the Kriegsmarine in Kiel . After infantry training in Copenhagen , he became the SS Volunteer Panzer Division 5. "Wiking" in the Hungarian Veszprém allocated took part in the fighting and came in May 1945 in Upper Austria Windischgarsten in American captivity . He was interned in Grafenwöhr in the Upper Palatinate and released from captivity in September 1945.

After the end of the war, Kuhn was able to continue his training as a technical draftsman and complete it in 1947. He was temporarily Chancellor of the Lower Saxony State of Scouts and worked as a technical draftsman for the Osnabrück regional railway. Kuhn joined the German Youth Association dj.1.11 , organized himself in the ÖTV and became active in the Osnabrück city ​​youth ring and the youth union. Kuhn became a temporary member of the works council of the Osnabrück municipal utilities and joined the SPD in 1958 . In 1959 Kuhn became head of the special school boarding school of the workers' welfare in Osnabrück. In 1963 he became head in an apprentice boarding Oberpostdirektion Bremen in Oldenburg , was local Youth Committee Chairman of the German Postal Union and the Regional Youth Committee chairman of the DGB , Kreis Oldenburg chosen.

Egon Kuhn took over the management of the Linden leisure home in March 1965 , which he then ran for 27 years. He also founded the district archive and the Linden history workshop .

In 1970 the network was within the party involved to Kuhn, the VAW -Betriebsrat Bruno Orzykowski as parliamentary candidates of the constituency 6, Linden-Limmer, against the acting Interior Minister Richard Lehner enforce, 1971 the only 28-year-old department director at the Sparkasse Hannover , Herbert Schmalstieg , as a candidate for the election of Lord Mayor against IG Chemie Secretary Otto Barehe and IG Metall Secretary Albert Kallweit.

When the SPD local association Linden-Limmer was founded on April 16, 1973, Kuhn was elected first chairman; an office that he handed over a year and a half later on December 16, 1974 to his successor Werner Strohmeyer.

In the spring of 1995, Kuhn and other trade unionists founded the Senior Citizens Academy Otto Brenner Hannover eV , which later became the Otto Brenner Academy , a trade union-based, self-organized and cross-generational educational institution that he himself managed until two years before his 90th birthday.

Kuhn on May 1st, 2013 in front of the last May 1st demonstration organized by the Linden Leisure Center at Klagesmarkt

Honors

literature

  • Juliane Kaune: The red Egon . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of January 20, 2007, p. 22
  • Hans-Jörg Hennecke: The book EGON. There is no story without a lived identity , text compilation by Alicia Tholen, ed. from the Otto Brenner Academy , Hanover 2007
  • Jonny Peter: One that we will miss: Egon Kuhn - an obituary ', in: Lindenspiegel. Die Lindener district newspaper ', 23rd volume, edition February 2019, pp. 1–2

Web links

Commons : Egon Kuhn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Öllerer (text), Evi Schaefer (photos): Egon Kuhn was 80 - first awarded to Lindener Oskar , article on hallolinden.de from January 20, 2007, last accessed on January 24, 2019
  2. ↑ Andrea Tratner: Interview / Egon Kuhn: “The myth of Linden is still alive” , article on the Neue Presse page of September 2, 2009, last accessed on January 24, 2019
  3. ↑ a b se: Mourning for Egon Kuhn / SPD-Original died , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of January 24, 2019, p. 20
  4. ↑ o. V .: History of the local association / founding of the SPD local association Linden-Limmer on the page spd-linden-limmer.de [ undated ], last accessed on January 24, 2019
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Hans-Jörg Hennecke: Over the years, Egon Kuhn has received honors, awards and recognitions for his work , in this: The book EGON ... , p. 148
  6. ↑ Andrea Tratner: Interview / Egon Kuhn ... (see literature)
  7. ↑ Angelika: Egon Kuhn is 85 , Sozialistische Jugend Deutschlands SJD - Die Falken Bezirksverband Hannover from January 29, 2012, last accessed on May 20, 2012
  8. ↑ a b Juliane Kaune: Linden / Birthday / The Linden veteran Egon Kuhn turns 90 , HAZ from January 23, 2017, last accessed on January 24, 2019
  9. ↑ (kw): Bruno O. - a key figure in the SPD who was targeted by the GDR State Security , panorama from June 17, 2018, last accessed on February 25, 2019
  10. ↑ (kw): How two SPD politicians were preparing to overthrow an entire line of ministers , overview from June 26, 2018, last accessed on February 25, 2019
  11. ↑ Hans-Jörg Hennecke: Das Buch EGON ... , S. 135ff.
  12. ↑ Board of Directors of the Otto Brenner Academy: First said , in: Hans-Jörg Hennecke: Das Buch EGON. There is no story without a lived identity , text compilation by Alicia Tholen, ed. from the Otto Brenner Academy , Hanover 2007, pp. 3–5; here: p. 4
  13. ↑ a b Klaus Öllerer (text), Evi Schaefer (photos): Egon Kuhn was 80 - first awarded Lindener Oskar , article on hallolinden.de from January 20, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD) and trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2019
Place of death Hanover