Gerd Schaefer-Rolffs

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Gerhard Ernst Heinrich Schaefer-Rolffs (born January 25, 1909 in Thorn , † April 22, 1986 in Bochum ) was a German engineer and association official.

Life

Growing up in Gleiwitz , he studied mechanical engineering at the TH Breslau from the winter semester 1927/28 . In 1928 he became a member of the Corps Silesia . After becoming a qualified engineer in 1933 , he initially stayed in Upper Silesia , but joined the navy in October 1933 after clashes with the National Socialists . He became Korvettenkapitän (engineer) and was most recently chief engineer on the light cruiser Cologne . After the war, he moved to the Ruhr area and became chairman of the specialist committee for route expansion in the mine expansion association. He gained historical importance as a driving force behind the reconstitution of the Association of Old Corps Students . He founded the "Akademiker-Hilfswerk Rhein-Ruhr", which became the "Ruhr Working Group" after the Federal Republic of Germany was founded. In 1950, Schaefer-Rolffs convened the VAC's first parliamentary assembly in Altena , at which 59 AHSC and over one hundred AH associations declared the dissolution of the association from 1938 null and void and reconstituted the VAC. He was also instrumental in founding the Andernach working group . The Halle successor corps Saxonia Frankfurt am Main (since 1984 in Konstanz) awarded him the ribbon for his services to the re-establishment of the VAC; the Association of Old Corps Students honored him in 1966 with the VAC silver bowl . In 1974 he became a corps bow bearer of Neoborussia Berlin zu Bochum ; In 1978 he received her ribbon.

Works

  • Gerd Schaefer-Rolffs, Oskar Scheunemann (eds.), Handbook of the Kösener Corps students , Bochum, VAC-Druckschriftenzentrale of the Association of Old Corps Students 1965, 5th supplemented and revised. output

literature

  • Deutsche Corpszeitung 3/1986, p. 85
  • Werner Barthold : In memoriam Gerd Schaefer-Rolffs , Deutsche Corpszeitung 4/86, p. 117 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 105/347; 154; 149.
predecessor Office successor
Ernst Schlange (until 1938) Reconstruction of the VAC
1947–1949 		Walter Ballas
personal data
SURNAME Schaefer-Rolffs, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaefer-Rolffs, Gerhard Ernst Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and corporation official
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorn
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1986
Place of death Bochum