Hans-Lothar Fauth

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Hans-Lothar Fauth after being awarded the Polonia Restituta Order
Sundial at Marien in Danzig with donor inscription (below)

Hans-Lothar Fauth (born March 14, 1928 in Danzig ; † January 8, 2012 in Lübeck ) was a German restaurateur and local politician who lived in Lübeck. He campaigned for the reconciliation of Poland and Germany early on, promoted the reconstruction of Gdansk monuments and was an honorary senator and honorary citizen of Gdansk.

Life

Fauth was born into the family of an electrician at the Danzig shipyard and raised a Catholic . In August 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a 16-year-old Hitler boy . He fought not far from Danzig and was transferred to Denmark after being wounded . He became a prisoner of war in England and after his release in August 1945 came to Lübeck, where the Grabner couple took him in as a foster son. In 1947 he joined the Dominican Order . In 1952 he left the St. Albert monastery , returned to Lübeck and learned the trade of druggist . In 1956 he started his own business as a restaurateur. He ran seven restaurants in Lübeck and the surrounding area and was an honorary member of the German Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga) Schleswig-Holstein. He headed the Dehoga district association in Lübeck for eight years.

1952 began its political and social activities. He founded the Association of European Youth in Schleswig-Holstein and was active in the CDU . After martial law was imposed in Poland on December 13, 1981, Hans-Lothar Fauth organized aid for the people of Gdańsk through Pastor Henryk Jankowski ; mainly medicines and medical equipment for Gdansk hospitals were procured. In 1982 he was elected to the Lübeck citizenship as a CDU member and re-elected in 1986 and 1990.

After the fall of the Wall in 1989, he gave the Gdańsk councilors a gilded scepter , a copy of the scepter of the London House of Commons . Fauth also donated one of the bells of the St. Katharina's bell tower. In 1990, at the suggestion of Andrzej Januszajtis , he financed the renovation of the sundial on the wall of Gdańsk St. Mary's Church and the renovation of the Gdańsk Artus Court . He also endeavored to return the Gdańsk bells and church vestments that were in Lübeck .

Hans-Lothar Fauth was made an honorary senator by the authorities in Gdańsk and in 1994 he was made honorary citizenship of the city. In 1989 he was the first German to receive the Commander's Cross with a Star of the Polonia Restituta Order . In 1995 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. The city of Lübeck honored him with the Senate plaque.

Fauth campaigned for the Lübeck martyrs to be recognized , including the Evangelical Lutheran clergyman Karl Friedrich Stellbrink , but spoke out against the beatification of the three Catholic clergy because, as a man of ecumenism, he perceived this as a division of the four clergy.

Fauth was honorary chairman of the Federation of European Youth in Lübeck and from 1993 to 1998 district chairman of the German Red Cross . He was married and had two children.

Lübeck's mayor Bernd Saxe (SPD), whose re-election he supported in 2011, praised Fauth after his death as a personality who “was always good for a surprise” and as a person “who is both for his hometown Gdansk and for the Hanseatic city Lübeck has done a lot ”.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Hans-Lothar Fauth is dead ( memento from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Lübecker Nachrichten online from January 9, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Sabine Risch: Lübeck loses a lateral thinker In: Lübecker Nachrichten of January 10, 2012, p. 9
  3. ↑ a b Lübeck veteran celebrates 50 years of professional life on the ihk-schleswig-holstein.de website 12/2006, p. 11
  4. ↑ Viola Roggenkamp : Even the socis dance with him In: The time of January 7, 1983
  5. ↑ Honors at the Association Day In: Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung 17/2003 from May 10, 2003
  6. ↑ 60 years of elected citizenship in the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (PDF; 295 kB)
  7. ↑ The restitution last discussed does not currently fail because of the position of Lübeck committees, but because of an outstanding agreement in principle by the Union of Evangelical Churches in Berlin , which, as the legal successor to the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union, was decided by the Berlin Court of Appeal on September 22, 1970 for all property matters Prussian Protestant parishes east of the Polish-German state border has been declared responsible for movable property that was on German territory after May 8, 1945, with the responsible bodies in Poland.
  8. ↑ Farewell to Lübeck's King In: HL-live.de of January 9, 2012
  9. ↑ The "King of the Night is dead": Hans-Lothar Fauth dies at the age of 83 . In: Lübecker Nachrichten of January 10, 2012, p. 1
  10. ↑ Fauth: Beatification not a Christian act In: HL-live.de from September 22, 2010

 

personal data
SURNAME Fauth, Hans-Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German restaurateur and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2012
Place of death Lübeck