Egon Wochatz

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Egon Wochatz (2014)

Egon Wochatz (born December 6, 1936 in Spremberg ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

Personal

He grew up with his sister and parentless cousin in simple circumstances in Spremberg. His mother was a seamstress by trade, and his father died on August 29, 1942 near Stalingrad during World War II . Egon Wochatz has three children from his first marriage, which was divorced in 1980. His wife brought two more children with her from her second marriage.

development

In the years 1955-1958 he graduated in Leipzig , a study for teachers of German and history. From 1958 to 1960 he served as a volunteer in the artillery of the National People's Army .

In 1960 he was assigned to the school combine in Graustein , where he worked as a teacher in Graustein, Reuthen , Lieskau and Schönheide from September 1, 1960 . In 1965, with the dissolution of the school combine, Egon Wochatz moved to the Rosa-Luxemburg-Oberschule in Spremberg, where he taught until 1972. During this time he completed an additional distance learning course to enable him to teach classes 11 and 12.

Egon Wochatz joined the CDU , one of the bloc parties in the GDR , in 1968 . By joining the CDU, he wanted to express that he did not agree with the action of the allied Warsaw states against the Prague Spring in the ČSSR .

From 1972 to 1980 he was a teacher at the operating vocational school Dr.Theodor Neubauer of power plants Lübbenau and Vetschau in the field of vocational training to high school . In 1980 he left school after health and personal problems. From 1983 to 1986 he worked as a caretaker in a church retirement home in Spremberg.

In 1986 he became district secretary of the CDU in Spremberg. From 2003 to October 2010 he was chairman and from October 2010 until he left in May 2014 he was deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group of the district council of the Spree-Neisse district .

Mayor of Spremberg

After the political change in the GDR in autumn 1989, the first free local elections took place in Spremberg on May 6, 1990 . The CDU emerged as the strongest party. None of the losing parties put up a candidate for mayor's office, presumably out of ignorance of the facts. Egon Wochatz was proposed for this office by the CDU municipal association. On May 31, 1990, he was elected mayor of Spremberg and took up his duties on June 1, 1990. He was the first mayor after the political change and also the last mayor of the city of Spremberg in the GDR. On December 11, 1993, Egon Wochatz was confirmed as mayor for another eight years with 65.5% of the votes cast. In May 2002, when he reached retirement age, he retired from active professional life. Since then, he is in the CDU faction of the City Council Spremberg as deputy active.

Egon Wochatz was fully committed to the cause from the start. Which earned him great respect not only in the administration of the city, but also in large parts of the Spremberg population . With no previous experience for this office and a completely new legal system, he certainly directed the fortunes of the city , sometimes unconventionally . Important municipal initiatives and events such as:

The greatest success in the inner-city area is the development of the market square in Spremberg, which had remained undeveloped on two sides since its destruction at the end of the war in 1945 , and the complete renovation of the city's main shopping street (Lange Straße). But he also had to accept the loss of traditional companies such as the shutdown of the Trattendorf power station , the liquidation of the Spremberg textile companies or the closure of the Spremberger Vordruckverlag .

Others

  • In 1997 Egon Wochatz was asked by an individual whether it would be possible to have a memorial stone erected for his fallen comrades in Spremberg, where he served as an 18-year-old in the 10th SS Panzer Division "Frundsberg" . Without consulting the city council or other bodies, Wochatz endorsed this, but insisted on a neutral inscription. The memorial stone was then brought to Spremberg in the spring of 1998 without any further agreement on this inscription. Wochatz rejected the already incorporated inscription - “In honor of our fallen comrades” - the veterans of the Frundsberg Panzer Division - because the inscription was by no means neutral and the addition “Panzer Division” would have to be dispensed with. After the facts became public, Wochatz faced massive protests from all political camps. The seized stone was ultimately not set up and returned to the donors.
  • On February 13, 1999, asylum seekers were attacked in Guben . Farid Guendoul, who entered Germany under a false identity as Omar Ben Noui, was killed. When asked about this, Egon Wochatz replied “What was he doing on the street at night? In addition, in a place where his home for asylum seekers was not located. ”And said that a foreigner who tied with a married woman here should expect to get into trouble. He later apologized for his choice of words.
  • On June 6, 2004 Egon Wochatz took part in Spremberg, in his function as representative of the German War Graves Commission , at a memorial service for those killed in the 10th SS Panzer Division "Frundsberg" who fought in the last days of the war in 1945 in the Spremberg area. Made known by a newspaper report, he was exposed to a nationwide media campaign.

swell

  • Egon you will become an officer! , Märkischer Bote , issue of December 17, 2011, series of portraits for Egon Wochatz's 75th birthday
  • Mit mir für Spremberg , Märkischer Bote, issue of December 24, 2011, series of portraits for Egon Wochatz's 75th birthday
  • Holding a position is also a success , Märkischer Bote, issue of December 31, 2011, portrait series for Egon Wochatz's 75th birthday

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Wochatz remains by far the number one sympathetic carrier In: LR-Online, October 27, 2003
  2. ^ "Whirling around a memorial stone in Spremberg", Lausitzer Rundschau September 11, 1998
  3. ↑ Stupid, brutal, right-wing extremist: Two bad Brandenburg stories Because of his moral courage, a man in Burg was almost kicked to death. Main perpetrator in custody: MY GOD, DOES THIS NEVER STOP? In: Berliner Kurier, July 24, 2004
  4. ↑ CDU man among SS comrades In: Spiegel Online, June 24, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Wochatz, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Spremberg