Rolf Lüer

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Rolf Lüer (born May 18, 1929 in Salzhausen ; † March 4, 2013 in Egestorf ) was a German bank manager and local researcher who was awarded the Lower Saxony Order of Merit for his services to the cooperative system .

Life

His parents were the bank manager Rudolf Lüer (1895 - 1978) and his wife Elisabeth Lüer geb. Kiel (1902-1981). From 1940 he attended the Johanneum in Lüneburg , graduated from high school and from 1949 studied English and German at the University of Göttingen .

Professional development

He gave up studies and in 1951 went to the savings and loan fund Egestorf. In 1960 he became head of the then savings and loan fund Egestorf. This was merged in 1969 with Volksbank Nordheide, which has the legal form of an eG, registered cooperative. After the merger, he worked for Volksbank Nordheide (today Volksbank Lüneburger Heide ) as a board member, from 1980 to 1989 he was its chairman. In 1999 he was again active as a board member for his bank.

Rolf Lüer was a visionary in his cooperative bank and developed innovative ideas for business promotion. Eg: He introduced a mobile customer service. Bank experts with many years of experience are equipped with VW Beetles and advise customers on site. In 1979, Volksbank Nordheide introduced a regionally valid credit card, the bank pass, and designed new banking services. In the Board of Representatives in 1983 Volksbank Nordheide the event will be on Low German held

Voluntary work

In 1989 Lüer retired from active service in order to devote himself more to the history of the cooperatives in his region: he studied history and political science at the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1997 with a thesis on the history of the Volksbanks in the former district of Winsen , the In 1998 it was published under the title "Social Claim and Economic Rationality".

After his retirement and alongside his studies, he collected material on the history of Volksbank Nordheide , later also on the cooperative movement and the Volksbanks in his region, and initiated the establishment of a company archive. This work resulted in the establishment of the Genossenschaftliches Archiv Foundation in 2002 ; from 2002 to 2003 he was chairman of the foundation's board of directors. The Volksbanks of the Harburg , Lüneburg and Heidekreis districts are involved in the Genossenschaftliches Archiv Foundation .

Lüer was also a co-founder of the Egestorf Heimatverein in the 1980s, for which he edited a number of publications.

He was also a founding member of the Rotary Club of Winsen , of which he was president in 1991 and honorary mayor from 1968 to 1970 and council member ( CDU ) from 1968 to 1972 of the Egestorf community. He was chairman of the school parents' council , church supervisor , board member of the tourist association , the Lüneburger Heide nature reserve association from 1968 to 1994 and a member of the plenary assembly of the Lüneburg - Wolfsburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1982 to 1989.

Lüer was married to Charlotte Lüer, b. Steffen and had two grown daughters and three grandchildren. He lived in Egestorf.

recognition

  • 2003 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit.

Publications

  • Social demands and economic rationality. On the history of cooperative banking in the former district of Winsen , Hamburg: Results-Verlag 1998 (also dissertation Universität Hamburg 1997)
  • History of nature conservation in the Lüneburg Heath , Bispingen: Association for the Niederhaverbeck Nature Conservation Park 1994 (also Master's thesis at the University of Hamburg 1993)
  • (Ed.): The writings of Pastor Wilhelm Bode from Egestorf on the cooperative system , Rosengarten-Ehestorf: Friends of the Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg 2012, series of writings from the Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg; Vol. 78, ISBN 978-3-935096-40-9 .
  • School chronicle of Evendorf , Egestorf 1987
  • In the cooperative archive - preserve the past and preserve the present for the future . In: Bank Information and Genossenschaftsforum, 1998 year, issue 7, p. 77.
  • Egestorf - Döhle - Evendorf - Sahrendorf - Schätzendorf . Together with Marlies Schwanitz, Erfurt 2002
  • Bank and warehouse under one roof . The combination of money and goods transactions at the savings and loan funds of the former Winsen district. In: District calendar 1999 for the district of Harburg
  • The cooperative archive . In: District calendar 2001, yearbook for the district of Harburg
  • The doctor's house in Egestorf . An attempt at social action with the means of a savings and loan fund. In: District calendar 2002, yearbook for the district of Harburg.
  • Cooperatives as pioneers of the central water supply in the former district of Winsen . In: District calendar 2004, yearbook for the district of Harburg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Matz: member of the cooperative, researcher, homeland friend Dr. Rolf Lüer (1929–2012), presentation at the 14th Conference on Cooperative History, November 1, 2019, Hamburg.
  2. ↑ see history of the association under http://www.heimatverein-egestorf.de/ueber-uns.html
  3. ↑ see information on the association's website at http://www.heimatverein-egestorf.de/buecher.html
personal data
SURNAME Lüer, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bank manager and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzhausen
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 2013
Place of death Egestorf