Oskar Marczy
Oskar Marczy (born March 6, 1924 in Stráne pod Tatrami (Forberg) / Czechoslovakia ; † April 26, 2006 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician of the FDP / DVP and a sports and displaced person official.
Life
Marczy came from the Zips in the Carpathian Mountains . After primary school in Forberg , where he was born , he went to the Protestant Lyceum in Kežmarok (Kesmark), where he graduated from high school in 1943. After the Second World War, he was driven from his homeland with his parents and younger brother and settled in the Böblingen district . He became a teacher and headmaster of the Johann Brücker School in Schönaich . From 1968 to 1976 he represented the constituency of Böblingen and from 1980 to 1984 the constituency of Leonberg as a member of the state parliament of the FDP / DVP inBaden-Württemberg , where he was temporarily also chairman of the youth and sports committee . From 1970 to 1987 he was also a member of the district council.
In 1981 Marczy became chairman of the Württemberg handball association , of which he was honorary chairman until his death. The handball boarding school in Stuttgart / Ostfildern (HTI), which he also chaired until 2002, was founded in 1989 by him
After leaving the state parliament, he took over the educational management of an Olympic base in Baden-Württemberg. In 1988 he was elected deputy federal chairman of the Karpatendeutsche Landsmannschaft Slovakia association for expellees , and since 1993 he has been its national chairman. After his retirement in 1989, he negotiated with the Czechoslovak Ministry of Education and, from 1993, with the Slovak Ministry of Education to reintroduce German language lessons in his home country.
Since 1997 Marczy has been an honorary citizen of Kežmarok in Slovakia because of his services to the reconciliation and cooperation of Slovaks and Germans . Until his death he was chairman of the state sports advisory board of the FDP in Baden-Württemberg and a member of the federal sports commission of his party.
Awards
- 1974: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st class
- 1987: Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- 2005: Home Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg
Web links
- Interview with the Slovak Trade FORUM
- Marczy, Oskar . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marczy, Oskar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (FDP / DVP), MdL and sports and displaced person functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Forberg , Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 2006 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |