Karlheinz Gierden

Karlheinz Gierden (born August 7, 1926 in Cologne ) is a CDU politician who has been active in the Cologne region for many years . He was senior district director of the Cologne district and bank manager . Gierden was also involved in various voluntary activities after his professional career.

Live and act

Gierden studied law at the University of Cologne and completed his studies in 1953 with a doctorate and a dissertation on Hegel's doctrine of the state. After his state exams, he worked as a public prosecutor . He joined the CDU in 1946. In 1962 he was elected Oberkreisdirektor (OKD) of the district of Cologne , an office that he held for two terms until autumn 1974. Before the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia in North Rhine-Westphalia , he belonged to the district council in Cologne and was also active in the Frechen Council for several years . Later he was also a member of the Cologne City Council .

He represented his party and his circle from 1965 for 37 years in the Regional Assembly of the Rhineland Regional Council from 1969 to 1999 as a faction leader. Here he was particularly involved as chairman of the culture committee. One concern, the development of Brauweiler Abbey , occupied him even after he left.

Due to the changed majority structure, he no longer stood in 1974 for an extension of his OKD office in the then newly formed Rhein-Erft district , but first moved to the board of the Kreissparkasse Köln and was then appointed chairman of the Cologne bank . He held this post from 1979 to 1990.

Gierden is married and has two children and three grandchildren. The former State Secretary Marion Gierden-Jülich (CDU) is his daughter. Gierden lives in Frechen .

Honorary positions

Gierden is chairman of the Friends of Brauweiler Abbey, a member of the board of trustees of the Brühl Palace Concerts , an honorary member of the Lazarus aid organization and a member of numerous associations.

Honors

• The city of Pulheim awarded him (as the only non-Pulheimer so far) the badge of honor
• The LVR awarded him the ring of honor, as well
  • the district of Cologne and the successor district, the Rhein-Erft district
• Maltese General Secretary von Truszczynski presented the appointment as Magistral Knight of the Order of Malta (1969)
• The state of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded him the Order of Merit in 1997 .
• The Federal Republic of Germany 1986 the Great Cross of Merit
• Pope Paul VI honored him with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Gregorius
• Knight of the Order of Lazarus (1973)
• The CDU of the Rhein-Erft-Kreis awarded him honorary membership in 2004.
• The Grand Master of the Order of Lazarus awarded him the Commander's Cross for Merit with a Star in 2014 (2014)
• Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2015)
• In 2016 he was awarded honorary membership by his CDU city association Frechen.

Works

• As editor: The Rhineland - Cradle of Europe ?: A search for traces from Agrippina to Adenauer , Bastei Lübbe , Cologne 2011 ISBN 978-3-431-03859-0 Reading sample and content

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Karlheinz Gierden , online newspaper for NRW, accessed on August 28, 2011
2. ↑ Note in We in NRW Blog April 2010 (original access August 2011, link via archive in February 2016) ( Memento from August 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Maria Machnik: The Father of the Abbey , Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Rhein-Erft, August 5, 2011, p. 39 and online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Press release September 29, 2004
6. ↑ News of the Order of October 25, 2014
7. ↑ Weekend (Hürth, Frechen etc.) of February 3, 2016