Karl Ritter (District Administrator)

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Karl Ritter (born September 15, 1916 in Hochspeyer ; † November 1994 ) was a German teacher, educational and local politician ( SPD ). From 1971 to 1981 he was District Administrator of the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Life

Origin and education

Karl Ritter was born the son of the woodworker Peter Ritter and his wife Anna. After elementary school he attended the teacher training institute in Kaiserslautern , which he completed in 1937 with the examination to become an elementary school teacher.

job

Ritter worked as a teacher at various schools, for example at the University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigshafen - Gartenstadt in the 1950s , most recently as rector of the Adolf Diesterweg School in Ludwigshafen- Oggersheim . In addition, he was involved in educational policy; In the trade press, for example, he expressed thoughts on staying seated and being ready for school . He was a member of the Education and Science Union (GEW), the federal executive committee of the Working Group of Social Democratic Teachers (ASL) and its state chairman for Rhineland-Palatinate.

politics

Ritter joined the SPD in 1947. Until the disbandment of the district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , Ritter was first district deputy there. After the district administrator Walter Unckrich, who had been in office since 1948, retired in 1968, Ritter took over his business as deputy until the district was dissolved in the major Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform the following year. Then Ritter held the office of First District Deputy in the new Bad Dürkheim district .

On September 3, 1971 he was appointed by the then Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Helmut Kohl to the district administrator of the Donnersbergkreis based in Kirchheimbolanden and held the office until he retired in 1981. In 1969 he was elected honorary mayor of the local community Weidenthal ; he had given up this office after his appointment as district administrator.

Secondary occupation

During his time as District Deputy in Neustadt, Ritter initiated a book about Hambach Castle , which was published in 1969 by the Neustadt District Office after an initial building renovation with Ritter's foreword "Democracy and Tradition". As a district administrator in Kirchheimbolanden, he brought out the Donnersberg yearbook in 1978 , which has since been published annually as the Heimatjahrbuch and in which he also published articles on local history and history as an author . In the North Palatinate History Association he acted as 1st chairman. Since 1970 he was a member of the Palatinate Wine Brotherhood .

Ritter left behind handwritten “Spruchbücher” in which, over decades, he had collected quotations from well-known and unknown authors that seemed significant to him and that he described as “picked up”.

Honors

literature

  • Jürgen Heinel (Ed.): Karl Ritter - teacher, district administrator, art lover . Verlag Franz Arbogast, Otterbach 1996, ISBN 3-87022-230-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Heinel (Ed.): Karl Ritter ... 1996, p. 6-8 .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Heinel (Ed.): Karl Ritter ... 1996, p. 9 .
  3. ↑ Jürgen Heinel (Ed.): Karl Ritter ... 1996, p. 12 f .
  4. ↑ a b c Hedi Nist (ni): "I am happy to accept the appointment" . In: The Rhine Palatinate . Ludwigshafen May 27, 1971 (facsimile from Jürgen Heinel: Karl Ritter ... 1996, p. 20).
  5. ↑ Karl Ritter: Thoughts on the problem of staying seated . In: West German school newspaper . Volume 64, No. 9 , 1955 (facsimile from Jürgen Heinel: Karl Ritter ... 1996, p. 12 f., Spelling mistake “teacher newspaper” instead of “school newspaper”).
  6. ↑ Karl Ritter: Thoughts on starting school - the problem of school readiness . In: West German school newspaper . Year 65, 1956 ( online [accessed April 18, 2016]).
  7. ↑ Jürgen Heinel (Ed.): Karl Ritter ... 1996, p. 18 .
  8. ↑ Jürgen Heinel (Ed.): Karl Ritter ... 1996, p. 46 .
  9. ↑ a b Jürgen Heinel (Ed.): Karl Ritter ... 1996, p. 14th f .
  10. ^ Karl Heinz: He shaped the Donnersbergkreis . In: The Rhine Palatinate . Ludwigshafen September 15, 1981 (facsimile from Jürgen Heinel: Karl Ritter ... 1996, p. 40).
  11. ↑ Mayor Ernst Niederberger turns 75. Mittelpfalz Online, December 9, 2003, accessed on April 17, 2016 .
  12. ^ District office Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Ed.): Hambacher Schloß - A monument to German democracy . Contributions to the renovation of the Hambach Castle in 1968/69. Carl Bockfeld publishing house, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1969.
  13. ↑ Jürgen Heinel (Ed.): Karl Ritter ... 1996, p. 33 .
  14. ↑ Jürgen Heinel (Ed.): Karl Ritter ... 1996, p. 37 .
  15. ↑ Jürgen Heinel (Ed.): Karl Ritter ... 1996, p. 19 .
  16. ↑ Jürgen Heinel (Ed.): Karl Ritter ... 1996, p. 80 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Ritter, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teachers, education and local politicians (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Hochspeyer
DATE OF DEATH November 1994