Horst Tuguntke

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Horst Helmut Tuguntke (born January 25, 1931 in Wartenburg , Warmia ) is a German administrative lawyer, local researcher, publicist and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit .

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After fleeing from the advancing Red Army from Warmia, he was interned for about three years in the Danish internment camp Gammel Rye (Central Jutland ). It was not until mid-December 1947 that he was allowed to emigrate to the British occupation zone in St. Mauritz - Münster , attended the St. Mauritz grammar school there and graduated from high school in 1951. After training as a legal clerk and public prosecutor , he was employed in the public prosecutor's offices in the higher regional court district and with the general public prosecutor in Hamm , then, until the transition to retirement in 1996, as senior public prosecutor at the public prosecutor's office in Hagen and as a prosecutor before the local courts in Regional court district of Hagen.

As a water sports enthusiast, he bought a folding boat during his training in 1955 and founded the Freizeit Hengsteysee canoe club in 1976 . V. in Hagen, worked out its statutes and was chairman until 2006. In December 1996 he received the hiking badge in gold of the German Canoe Association for his sporting achievement (23,750 km on 180 rivers and large lakes in the last 20 years) . V.

Horst Tuguntke has been a member since 1955, and since 1985 secretary and press spokesman of the Allenstein-Land e. V. In 1989 he revised the outdated association statutes, whereby the Heimatverein was recognized as non-profit and took over the editorial management of the annual Heimatjahrbuch . Since around 1980 he has been a member of the Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen e. V. (district group Hagen), thus a born member of the Federation of Expellees . In 1995 he concluded the friendship agreement between the sponsored community of Hagen and his place of birth Wartenburg (since 1946 Barczewo), and in 2002, on his initiative, a partnership agreement was signed between the Olsztyn district and the Olsztyn district in Poland. Between 2001 and 2009 he was awarded the Medal in Gold of the homeland East Prussia e. V. On July 9, 2010, the Lord Mayor of Hagen , Jörg Dehm, presented him with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon, which the Federal President Horst Köhler awarded him on March 14, 2010. The badge of honor and merit of the Landsmannschaft Ostpreussen e. V. presented him with Jürgen Zauner on March 12, 2011.

Awards

  • 1996: Wanderer badge in gold of the German Canoe Association e. V.
  • 2001: Gold medal of the Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen e. V.
  • 2009: Gold medal of the Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen e. V.
  • 2010: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2011: Badges of honor and merit of the Landsmannschaft Ostpreussen e. V.

Publications (selection)

  • Saint Hedwig . In: 28th Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 1997 , p. 48.
  • Richard Schirrmann - founder of youth hostels . In: 28th Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 1997 , p. 110.
  • August Wiegand - architect in Allenstein . In: 28th Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 1997 , p. 122.
  • Julius Brünn - Zionist in Allenstein . In: 28th Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 1997 , p. 126.
  • Sadism in Neu-Vierzighuben . In: 28th Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 1997 , p. 230.
  • Georg Graf von Brühl - a district administrator of the Allenstein district . In: 30. Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 1999 , pp. 111–112.
  • The "Reichskristallnacht" in Wartenburg . In: 30. Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 1999 , p. 219.
  • The sinking of the Cap Arcona . In: 30. Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 1999 , pp. 226–228.
  • To the St. Adalbert monastery school in Mehlsack . In: 40th Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 2009 , p. 48.
  • Death of the sculptor EM Wiegand . In: 40th Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 2009 , pp. 162–163.
  • Book review: Travel Guide East Prussia by Gerd Hardenberg . In: 40th Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 2009 , pp. 221–222.
  • 600 years of the Battle of Tannenberg . In: 41. Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 2010 , pp. 16–21.
  • On the death of Gunter Hoepfner . In: 41. Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 2010 , pp. 172–173.
  • German-Polish partnership festival in Allenstein / Olsztyn . In: 41st Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 2010 , pp. 294–298.
  • Felix Nowowiejski - Once a citizen of the German Empire . In: 42nd Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 2011 , pp. 115–116.
  • Warmian chapels - today . In: 43. Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 2012 , pp. 70–71.
  • Our home - today . In: 43. Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 2012 , pp. 88–90.
  • On the death of Professor Ulrich Fox . In: 43. Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 2012 , pp. 145–146.

swell

  • Horst Tuguntke: Interned in Denmark . In: 29. Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 1999 , pp. 235–244.
  • Horst Tuguntke: 50 years of canoeing . In: 30. Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 1999 , p. 126.
  • Horst Tuguntke: Interned in Denmark. Humanitarian aid - or what else? . In: 30. Heimatjahrbuch Weihnachten 1999 , pp. 239–241.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gold Medal of Honor for Horst Tuguntke. The Ostpreußenblatt / Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen e. V., December 8, 2001, accessed August 18, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Commitment to culture recognized. Horst Tuguntke receives the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. (PDF; 277 kB) WAZ New Media GmbH, July 10, 2010, accessed on August 18, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Tuguntke, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tuguntke, Horst Helmut (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, local researcher, publicist and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Wartenburg , Warmia