Klaus Kriesche

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Klaus Kriesche (born April 2, 1932 in Zátyní (Sattai), today part of Dauba , Czechoslovakia ; † September 3, 2011 in Wuppertal ) was a German educator and local politician . From 1964 to 1999 he was a city ​​councilor for the CDU in Wuppertal.

Life

Kriesche was born as the son of a teacher in Sattai, in Bohemia . After the end of World War II, he came in the wake of the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia in the Lausitz .

After high school and teacher training, he moved from the GDR to Cologne in 1954 . In Wuppertal, as rector, he built the local special school for educational assistance (today Johannes-Rau-Förderschule ).

Klaus Kriesche was CDU city councilor in Wuppertal from 1964 to 1999 and was primarily active in education, sports and local foreign policy. He made a decisive contribution to the Bergische Universität Wuppertal ; also for the then innovative east-west town twinning with Košice and Schwerin and for the children's museum showcase school & children's art and the station nature and environment, the largest communal facility for environmental education in the Bergisches Land. From 1980 to 1988 he was chairman of the Association of German Special School Teachers of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Honors

Klaus Kriesche has received numerous awards for his diverse services. For example in 1985 by the city of Wuppertal with the ring of honor of the city of Wuppertal . In 1986 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and later the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1994). In 1991, the Vatican honored his decades of commitment to school politics with the papal order Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice . In 2007 Kriesche was awarded the Badge of Honor of the City of Wuppertal in gold for his decades of work in local political bodies.

In an obituary, Wuppertal's city director Dr. Johannes Slawig Kriesche as "a highly committed, always ready to talk, fair and humorous person who, without much ado about himself, enjoyed the positive development of the city and enjoyed a high reputation, even across party lines."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Beyond Death” , Die Zeit 13/1997
  2. ^ WSV mourns Klaus Kriesche. Retrieved January 11, 2012 .
  3. ↑ “Wuppertal mourns Klaus Kriesche”, Westdeutsche Zeitung of September 9, 2011, p. 14
  4. ↑ City partner : Wuppertal celebrates with long-term friends. Retrieved January 11, 2012 .
  5. ↑ With timpani and trumpets. (PDF; 3.6 MB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 11, 2012 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kindermuseum-wuppertal.de  
  6. ↑ a b Honor ring bearer Klaus Kriesche died  ( 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. Wuppertaler Rundschau from September 7, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wuppertaler-rundschau.de  
  7. ↑ List of winners of the ring of honor of the city of Wuppertal ( Memento from February 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Werner-Steinbach.de, accessed September 2011
  8. ↑ "Decades of commitment honored - papal order 'Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice' for Klaus Kriesche", Kölner Kirchenzeitung 9/92, p. 22
  9. ↑ "The city mourns the honorary ring bearer, former city councilor and district representative Klaus Kriesche" ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Obituary, City of Wuppertal, September 8, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wuppertal.de
personal data
SURNAME Kriesche, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Sattai, Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 2011
Place of death Wuppertal