Else Fichter
Else Fichter (born January 25, 1927 in Trier ; † February 20, 2015 in Trier) was a Trier environmental activist with the nickname "Solar-Else". Above all from her retirement to the end of her life, she fought for sustainability, renewable energies, environmental protection and the preservation of creation.
family
Else Fichter was born on January 25, 1927 in Trier. Her father was the businessman Ernst Fichter from Freiburg . He later owned a poster business in Trier, which he lost as a result of the Second World War . He introduced the advertising pillars in Trier. Else Fichter's mother was the long-established Trier and tailor Berta Mönicke, who gave up her profession after the marriage. Else Fichter had two sisters, Grete and Adele. Else Fichter died on February 20, 2015 at the age of 88 in the Mutter-Rosa-Altenzentrum in Trier. She is buried in the main cemetery in Trier.
education and profession
From 1933 to 1937 Else Fichter attended the Protestant Dewora elementary school, then until 1944 the Auguste Viktoria School in Trier. From 1944 to 1945 she had to interrupt her school attendance to do military service; she initially worked as an assistant conductor on tram lines 1 and 3, then as a temporary worker in the coffee kitchen of the hospital and finally as a worker in a mustard factory. After the war Else Fichter made up the 13th year of school and obtained her Abitur in 1946. In the same year she began studying geography, German and history in Mainz. In 1952 she passed the 1st state examination for teaching at schools and began a legal clerkship at the grammar school in Saarburg and at the municipal college (later Treveris grammar school, closed today) in Trier. In 1954 she took the second state examination for teaching at schools and began her service as a high school teacher for the subjects of German, geography and history in Saarburg, where she worked until her retirement in 1988. When Else Fichter retired, he gradually joined more than 20 environmental associations, including initiatives of the anti-nuclear movement , the Bund für Umwelt- und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), Greenpeace , the Ecological Democratic Party and the Local Agenda 21 . She lived on Theodor-Heuss-Allee (corner of Roonstrasse and Göbenstrasse); on top of the house was one of the city's first green roof gardens.
Commitment to environmental protection
According to Else Fichter's own statement, the decisive factor behind Else Fichter's commitment to the environment was reading the book The Limits to Growth , which was published by the Club of Rome in 1972 and which showed the consequences of industrialization and economic growth for the earth. For years, Else Fichter regularly attended city council meetings as well as transport and environmental events in order to comment on them in a friendly but often critical manner. She sponsored numerous environmental and energy policy projects and made unselfish investments in solar roofs and wind turbines in the region long before these technologies were recognized by the general public. Else Fichter struggled with tireless persuasion and with her private donations she often made sure that projects got going. It was also important to her to attract and promote young people for environmental protection and sustainability . For many years she has financially supported the Department of Spatial Development and Regional Planning at the University of Trier and its archive for urban and transport planning, from which many students have benefited. The preservation of the Weißhauses over the Moselle with its forest was a special concern of hers; Among other things, she was a member of a citizens' initiative that campaigned against the construction of a large holiday home area at the Weißhaus in the early 1980s. She spent her last years in the Mother Rosa retirement home, where she continued to work tirelessly to encourage people around her to treat our environment responsibly.
Awards and honors
- Awarded the Ring of Honor of the City of Trier, 1995
- Winner of the Medal of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, 2000
- Name of a street between Trier-Nord and Trier-Ruwer as "Else-Fichter-Straße", 2018
Web links
- Video portrait of OK 54 Trier from 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fNqBuTiNBU
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcus Stölb: Obituary in the Trierisches Volksfreund
- ^ Obituary of the Trier Greens (February 26, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fichter, Else |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Solar Else |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German environmental activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 2015 |
| Place of death | trier |