Klaus Ehlers

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Klaus Ehlers (born March 27, 1941 in Berlin ) is a former German high school teacher and has been a volunteer at the AllerWeltHaus cultural center in Hagen for many years .

education

Klaus Ehlers is the son of the commercial clerk Edith Dickel and the businessman Wilhelm Ehlers and grew up with two younger brothers in the Westphalian industrial city of Bochum. After completing school education at the Goethe School in Bochum , he studied English and geography at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and passed his first state examination for teaching at the Ruhr University in Bochum . He has been married since 1968 and has three children; former Olympic swimmer Lisa Vitting is his niece.

job

Klaus Ehlers worked at the Hildegardis School in Hagen from 1970 to 1972 and then at the Christian-Rohlfs-Gymnasium Hagen until his retirement in 2006 . In addition to his teaching activities there, he developed initiatives mainly in the areas of environment and development. In 1981 he worked with students from a school consortium during the summer holidays for several weeks in an aid project in Bolivia; In the 1990s, he initiated energy-saving competitions lasting several years at his high school; through his initiative, the Christian-Rohlfs-Gymnasium became the first school in Hagen with its own solar system on the roof; and after leaving school, the grammar school became the first Fairtrade school in Hagen in 2013 due to its decades of Fairtrade student work .

Volunteering and honors

Since 1977, Klaus Ehlers has worked in a voluntary managerial position in the Third World store , which was established in Hagen in 1976, and from 1988 continued his work in the resulting AllerWeltHaus cultural center , a "supraregional center for development-political cultural and educational work" which he operated from 1988 to 2004 as chairman of the association and in which he has continued to be active as 'honorary chairman' ever since.

In July 2007, the meeting café in the AllerWeltHaus with Klaus Ehlers as co-responsible director was awarded the “Prize for Peace, Justice and the Preservation of Creation” from the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . On March 20, 2009 he and his wife Inge Ehlers (née Birwer) received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany for their decades of voluntary work .

literature

  • “A small project became a regional center: The Cross of Merit on Ribbon for the Ehlers”. District government Arnsberg, press release 281/09 Arnsberg, 10 June 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Ehlers, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin