Klaus Dickneite

Klaus Dickneite with a jacket from the Social Association of Germany ...

... here in Georgstrasse in Hanover in 2012 at the nationwide day of action “ RE-FAIR - Taxing Wealth ”

Klaus Dickneite (* 1946 ) is a German social worker, politician and mayor of the Misburg-Anderten district in Hanover .

Life

At the age of two, Klaus Dickneite was moved to the Johanna-Helenen-Heim in Volmarstein , built in 1910 , a church home for children with disabilities of the Evangelical Foundation Volmarstein . Here he and his classmates personally experienced “violence in the aid of the physically handicapped” “like prisoners”.

At the age of 22, Klaus Dickneite left the former “Krüppelheim”, where he had no contact with his parents, then studied social work and later ran a home for children with disabilities himself.

In 2006, Dickneite became the spokesman for the Johanna-Helenen-Heim independent working group , which was founded in 2006 and campaigned for reparation for the violence caused by overburdened deaconesses and the disinterested for decades after the Second World War .

In 2011, Dickneite was elected district mayor in Misburg-Anderten. Dickneite is a member of the SPD .

More functions

Dickneite is active

• in the senior advisory board of the Diakonisches Werk Hannover
• as the first local chairman in the local association Anderten of the Social Association Germany

documentary

• Lost Childhood, Here and Today Documentation, [1]

literature

• Hans-Walter Schmuhl, Ulrike Winkler: Violence in helping the physically handicapped. The Johanna-Helenen-Heim in Volmarstein from 1947 to 1967 , in the series of writings of the Institute for Diaconal and Social History at the Church University of Bethel , Vol. 18, 2nd edition, Gütersloh: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2012, ISBN 978-3 -89534-918-8
• Klaus Görzel: Historians put book ... / Pictures of horror from the home on the website of the Westfälische Rundschau from March 16, 2012, last accessed on September 30, 2012
• Veronika Thomas: The new mayor / first man in Misburg-Anderten is Klaus Dickneite on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from November 17, 2011, last accessed on September 30, 2012

Web links

Commons : Klaus Dickneite  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jutta Schulte: New representation for senior citizens ... on the website of the Diakonisches Werk Hannover [undated, April 2012?], Last accessed on September 30, 2012
• Helmut Jacob (group spokesman ): viol-im-jhh.de , last accessed on September 30, 2012
• Jörg Stolpe (report), Margot Schimmelpfennig (production), Carola Pfeiffer ( editor ): Film excerpt under the title "Lost Childhood" about the Volmarsteiner Heimopfer on Youtube .com from the series Here and Today of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln , last accessed on 30 September 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Veronika Thomas: New Mayor ... (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jörg Stolpe, Margot Schimmelpfennig, Carola Pfeiffer: Film excerpt under the title "Lost Childhood" (see the video clip under web links )
3. ↑ ^{a b} Hans-Walter Schmuhl, Ulrike Winkler: Violence in helping the disabled ... (see literature)
4. ↑ Historians presented the book: Pictures of horror from the home
5. ↑ Jutta Schulte: New representation for senior citizens ... (see web links)
6. ↑ Local associations on the SoVD Landesverband Niedersachsen eV website, last accessed on September 30, 2012