City community of Königsberg
The city community of Königsberg is a hereditary administrator of Königsberg (Prussia) .
Origin and purpose
Refugees and expellees from Königsberg - including Hugo Linck - founded the “Kreisgemeinschaft Königsberg-Stadt” in Hamburg in 1949. Soon 7,000 former residents of the former provincial capital of East Prussia met in Hamburg . Further large meetings followed in Herne and again in Hamburg. Renamed to the "Stadtgemeinschaft Königsberg", its seat was Duisburg ; because the council of the city of Duisburg took over the sponsorship for Königsberg in 1951. From then on, many Königsbergers met in the sponsored city. On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Königsberg in 1955, 35,000 people came to Duisburg. The residents' index created in Hamburg now includes over 300,000 addresses of former Königsberg citizens and their descendants. Early on, exhibits on the history and culture of Königsberg were brought together in Duisburg. They formed the basis for the Museum Haus Königsberg on Mülheimer Strasse , created in 1968 . In connection with the Culture and City History Museum of the City of Duisburg, it became the City Museum of Königsberg in 1992 . The statutes of the city community of Königsberg put cultural goals and cooperation with the Russian institutions and residents of Kaliningrad in the foreground. Since 1960, it has been issuing the Königsberger Bürgerbrief twice a year. It awards the Königsberg Citizen Medal and the Ernst Wiechert Prize as honors .
Former Chair
- 1949–1962 Hellmuth Bieske , signed the Charter of German Expellees in 1950
- 1962–1967 Reinhold Rehs , Member of the Bundestag, spokesman for the East Prussian Landsmannschaft, President of the Association of Expellees
- 1967–1973 Fritz Gause , wrote the three-volume history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia
- 1973–1974 Erich Grimoni , initiated the House of the German East in Düsseldorf
- 1974–1978 Ulrich Albinus , President of the Prussia Antiquities Society
- 1978–1983 Arnold Bistrick , belonged to the resistance group around Carl Goerdeler
Board
The board elected in 2019 consists of:
- Klaus Weigelt , chairman
- Eberhard Neumann-Redlin von Meding , deputy chairman
- Margret Matuschik, Secretary
- Heike Paulun
- Lorenz Grimoni , keeper of the Museum House Königsberg in Duisburg
- Christean Wagner
- Wolfgang Reske
- Jörn Pekrul
- Andreas Schaaf-Fiege
- Dirk Hagen
- Wolfram Eggeling
- Henriette Piper , biographer of her grandfather Hugo Linck
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ City community of Königsberg
- ↑ Königsberger Bürgerbrief 94 (2019), pp. 58–61.