Gerd Wixforth

Gerd Wixforth (born January 24, 1934 in Gütersloh ; † April 15, 2014 ) was a German administrative lawyer and city ​​director of the city of Gütersloh for 30 years .

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Gerd Wixforth, son of the later city treasurer of Gütersloh Walter Wixforth, graduated from the Evangelisch Stiftischen Gymnasium Gütersloh in 1954 and then studied law in Munich, Freiburg and Münster. In 1958 he passed the first state examination and became a trainee lawyer at the city administration of Münster and the Landesbank für Westfalen. He wrote his dissertation in 1962 on "The municipal financial sovereignty and its limits". In 1963 he joined Wirtschaftsberatung AG (Wibera) in Düsseldorf, and in 1966 he became city ​​treasurer and first alderman of the city of Gütersloh. In 1969 he was appointed city director, an office he held after his re-election in 1981, 1989 and 1997 until his retirement in 1999. From 1999 to 2004 he was in charge of the OWL Employment Initiative at the Bertelsmann Foundation . Since 2004 he has been responsible for the finances of the community foundation Gütersloh as a volunteer member of the board and was a member of the supervisory board of the Teutoburg Forest Railway .

Wixforth also worked as a main administrative officer on the administrative board and credit committee of Sparkasse Gütersloh , as president of the association assembly of the Westfälisch-Lippische Sparkassen, on the administrative board of WestLB , on the supervisory board of Syskoplan and chairman of the sponsoring association of the Auguste Viktoria clinic in Bad Oeynhausen. In 1969 he was elected to the supervisory board of the non-profit building association Gütersloh; from 1986 to 2000 he was chairman of the supervisory board. He also volunteered at the local level for the German Red Cross Gütersloh (Wixforth was chairman of the local DRK association for 33 years), the Evangelisch Stiftische Gymnasium, the Miele Foundation and as deputy chairman of the Renate Gehring Foundation.

In 2000, Wixforth founded the Wixforth Health Care Fund within the Gütersloh Community Foundation with 1 million D-Marks from his private assets to support projects in the public health sector.

Wixforth died on April 15, 2014 as a result of a traffic accident on New Year's Day.

Honors

• 1992: Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire , for his services to the Gütersloh town twinning and the improvement of the coexistence of the population of Gütersloh and the British soldiers stationed there and their families
• 1994: Dr. Johann Christian Eberle Medal in gold
• 1999: German Fire Brigade Medal of Honor from the German Fire Brigade Association
• November 7, 2008: First Class Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• January 24, 2009: Honorary citizen of the city of Gütersloh on his 75th birthday

Web links

• Gütersloh mourns the loss of his honorary citizen Dr. Gerd Wixforth. Obituary on gueterslohtv.de from April 16, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gütersloh mourns the loss of Dr. Gerd Wixforth In: Die Glocke from April 16, 2014 (accessed April 16, 2014).