Gunder Heimlich

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Gunder Volker Heimlich (born August 6, 1941 in Kassel ) is a former chairman of the AWO Niederrhein and initiator of the children's aid project Mo.Ki - Monheim for children in Monheim am Rhein .

biography

Heimlich completed an apprenticeship as a social worker and was head of the youth development department of the Düsseldorf youth welfare office for many years. He particularly campaigned for children and young people from disadvantaged families and initiated the Mo.Ki - Monheim program for children in the city of Monheim am Rhein .

Heimlich has been a member of the AWO since 1976 and was on the board of the AWO Niederrhein for more than 27 years , including many years as chairman. For 32 years he was also a member of the board of the AWO district association Düsseldorf eV

From 2002 to 2005 he headed the "Poverty Commission" of AWO Niederrhein, which focused on fighting the causes and consequences of poverty among children and young people. As chairman of the state working group of the North Rhine-Westphalian AWO, he initiated a state-wide specialist conference on the subject of "Poverty Threats Our Society" with 300 participants. With the symposium "Paths to Social Europe" in 2009 he established contacts in the Netherlands and promoted cross-border exchange on uniform European social standards. From 1995 to 2009 Heimlich was an advisory member with voting rights in several projects of the State Youth Welfare Committee of the Rhineland Regional Assembly .

Awards

  • In 2011 he was honored with the Marie Juchacz plaque for “decades of commitment at all levels of the association as well as the special merits that Gunder Heimlich has earned in the fight against the consequences of poverty among children and young people”.
  • The district youth organization of the AWO on the Lower Rhine appointed him an honorary member.
  • In 2013, Bernd Neuendorf , State Secretary in the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , presented him with the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for “his long-standing and exceptional services in the field of youth development”. Neuendorf praised Heimlich's "exemplary social commitment" and emphasized that the model project "Mo.Ki - Monheim for Children", which he initiated and further developed to enable disadvantaged families to find ways out of poverty, had received "nationwide great attention and recognition".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minutes of the meeting of the State Youth Welfare Committee, April 21, 2005 , Rhineland Regional Association
  2. ↑ a b c d e f State Secretary Neuendorf presents Gunder Heimlich with the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class ( memento of the original from April 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of MFKJKS NRW , April 15, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mfkjks.nrw.de
  3. ↑ Stefanie Mergo: Monheim: Supporting children from the start , Rheinische Post , October 23, 2008
  4. ^ Ludwig Krause: Kleve district "Bankers don't create values" , Rheinische Post, October 17, 2011
  5. ↑ Dirk Kraayvanger: Social: Ways to social Europe , NRZ , March 22, 2009
  6. ↑ Dare to do more justice and solidarity! , District conference 2011 of AWO Niederrhein on November 26th, 2011 in Mönchengladbach
  7. ^ Rheinische Post, Federal Cross of Merit for the Mo.Ki initiator , April 16, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Secretly, Gunder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Secretly, Gunder Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative assistant
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel