Herfried Apel

Herfried Apel (born December 15, 1929 in Berlin-Lankwitz ) is a former business manager with numerous voluntary tasks. He set up the Lichtenberg Music Foundation Herfried Apel .

Life

Apel experienced a typical fate for those cohorts who were just too young for regular warfare but could be ideologically captured and abused by the regime for their criminal goals. Later - when military service was introduced for the German Armed Forces in 1956 - the fact that he was born in white benefited him to the extent that these years were not even drafted. He wrote a documentary about his life, in which the tension between being fully supported by the family and being integrated into the regime to the terrifying realization of being deceived is described: Where did I come from? Where did i go

Apel only narrowly escaped death during a bomb attack on Kitzingen , in which mother and sister fell victim. At the end of the war he was an orphan and had to worry about starting his professional life on his own. This succeeded with the bricklayer journeyman's examination (1949) and the completion of the business school diploma at the higher commercial school in Würzburg (1950).

Apel started his own business in 1956, initially as a representative for paints and other painting accessories. This is how he came into contact with the well-known Caparol brand and then applied to the Deutsche Amphibolin-Werke (DAW) in Ober-Ramstadt . He was given the task of building up a subsidiary: Disbon, of which he eventually became managing director. In the more than 36 years of his activity for the DISBON company , he made it a well-known company for special products in the construction industry.

Herfried Apel has been married to Ursula Apel , born in 1963, who became famous for her extensive Hermann Hesse documentation . Berbig. He has three grown children with her.

Honorary positions

Apel got involved with the juniors of the IHK Darmstadt and was their chairman from 1966 to 1968. Later he served this chamber as a member of the examination committee for office clerks .

From 1969 onwards, he was a board member of AOK Darmstadt-Dieburg for over 24 years .

At the municipal level, he worked in various functions for the Fischbachtal community, including a. as mayor of his place of residence Lichtenberg. For 10 years he headed the traffic and beautification association Fischbachtal -Lichtenberg.

As the father of three children, he was also active in school politics, for example as chairman of the school parents' council at the primary school in Fischbachtal.

Apel was 30 years - 1973 to 2003 - as a commercial judge at the district court of Darmstadt active (6th Chamber for Commercial Matters). He was elected Vice President of the Federal Association of Judges in Commercial Matters and held this office for eleven years.

Lichtenberger Music Foundation

As a co-founder of the Lichtenberg Castle Concerts (since 1971), Apel donated the Lichtenberg Music Prize, endowed with € 5000, by founding the Lichtenberg Music Foundation Herfried Apel . The prize was awarded for the first time in 2004 and goes every two years from the foundation's income to particularly talented young musicians.

Awards

• 1945 black wound badge
• 1986 Letter of Honor from the State of Hesse
• 2004 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

swell

• H. Apel: Where did I come from? Where did i go . Self-published