Karl Dunz

Karl Dunz (born February 2, 1917 in Lengenfeld near Weissenburg in Bavaria ) is a German author for homeland books, was second mayor of Windsbach and in 1965 he set up the largest potato drying facility in Germany.

Life

Karl Dunz was born in Lengenfeld in 1917, a district of Alesheim in what is now the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district. After school he was drafted into the armed forces and fought until the end of the Second World War . After that he worked in agriculture and built a drying plant for potatoes. He founded a cooperative and what was then the largest potato drying company in Germany was created. Various other associations then built additional drying systems based on his model. Dunz was chairman of the board and managing director of drying for 16 years and became regional chairman of drying plants in Bavaria and second chairman of the federal association.

While researching the city of Windsbach in the Bamberg State Archives , he discovered the city's oldest documents from 1130, 1140 and 1138. In 2008, Dunz donated the “Rural Equipment Collection”, a permanent exhibition for rural tools in Neuses near Windsbach .

Books

• Home and cultural history of the city of Windsbach , 1985
• Our ancestors, their way of life and the world of work , 1987
• Elpersdorf near Windsbach. A Franconian village through the centuries , 1990
• Stories from our homeland. Poems that life wrote. Thoughts for Life , 1994
• The fate of the Windsbach Jews , 1995
• Poetry albums. 365 verses and sayings from 1900 to 2000 - cheerful and reflective , 2002

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
• Cross of Merit on ribbon
• Bavarian state medal in silver
• Bavarian lion made from Nymphenburg porcelain
• Golden and silver Raiffeisen pin
• Medal of Merit of the district of Ansbach
• Medal of Merit of the City of Windsbach

Individual evidence

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