Günter Fassbender

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Günter Fassbender (born March 5, 1929 in Mönchengladbach , † March 25, 2017 in Wesel ) was a German lawyer and administrative officer .

Career

Faßbender came from Mönchengladbach and completed a degree in law and political science after graduating from school. He began his professional career as a trainee lawyer at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court and passed his second state examination in 1958. He then worked as a legal advisor at an insurance company and in 1960 he moved to the city administration of Duisburg . In 1965 he was appointed acting head of the municipal real estate office and in 1966 he was permanent . Faßbender, who was a member of the SPD , moved to the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior in 1967 and was promoted to government director a year later. At the head of the ministry in the then social-liberal state government was the FDP politician Willi Weyer . On December 1, 1969, Fassbender took on a managerial role in the administration of the Moers district and in 1971 changed to the office of treasurer of the district. With the local reorganization in 1975, the Moers district was largely absorbed into the Wesel district and Faßbender became treasurer of the newly founded district.

On October 1, 1978, Fassbender was elected City Director of the district town of Wesel for a twelve-year term . As such, he headed the city administration and stood on the same level as the mayor, who, however, had primarily representative tasks in the then two-part municipal constitution. During his term of office, which lasted until September 30, 1990, various projects such as the redesign of the Kornmarkt were implemented. Faßbender's commitment to reconciliation with former Jewish citizens of the city was considered a special achievement. This began in 1988 with the invitation of all surviving former Jewish citizens of Wesel to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the November pogroms in 1938 . In 1994 Faßbender initiated the founding of the Jüdisch-Christian Freundeskreis Wesel eV and was its chairman until 2010. Among other things, the association promoted the remembrance and commemoration of the time of National Socialism in cooperation with schools and cultivated contacts with former Jewish citizens of Wesel such as Erich Leyens and Ernest Kolman . In addition, Faßbender, together with his wife and in cooperation with the Hospice Initiative Wesel, was committed to terminally ill people and set up a foundation for this purpose. In December 2013 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and shortly thereafter was honored with an entry in the city of Wesel's Golden Book. Faßbender last lived in a retirement home in the Feldmark district of Wesel , where he died in 2017 at the age of 88.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c City of Wesel mourns the former city director Günter Faßbender  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , wesel.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wesel.de  
  2. ↑ a b c Wesel: Wesel mourns Günter Faßbender , rp-online.de
  3. ↑ a b The Wesel architect of reconciliation , derwesten.de
  4. ↑ The “Jüdisch-Christian Freundeskreis Wesel eV” , zeitreise-wesel.de
personal data
SURNAME Fassbender, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2017
Place of death Wesel