Stefan Gillich

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Stefan Gillich (born September 12, 1932 in Bački Gračac , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † February 1, 2019 in Deidesheim ) was a German local politician .

Life and family

Gillich was born on September 12, 1932 in Filipowa (today Bački Gračac) in the Batschka in Serbia . His parents had a farm that was expanded to include a hemp processing plant in the 1930s . Gillich's father, drafted into the Serbian military in 1939, died in a field camp in 1940 at the age of 39. After the Serbian Batschka had been conquered by the German Wehrmacht in 1941 and Hungary slammed in the Second World War , Gillich's home village was conquered by the Soviet Army and Yugoslav partisans in September 1944 . A brother of Gillich was shot dead in a massacre by partisans on November 25, 1944 near Filipowa. Another brother of Gillich had been drafted by the Wehrmacht in 1944 and taken prisoner by the Soviets .

Together with two sisters, a brother and his mother, Gillich was expelled from his home village on March 31, 1945 and sent to a camp near Sombor with 16,500 other Germans , where living conditions were very harsh. On January 9, 1947, the family was able to leave the camp and cross the border into Hungary, seven kilometers away. On September 5th of the same year they reached Germany near Passau and were quartered in a reception camp for displaced persons near Moschendorf in Upper Franconia . It was here that Gillich met his future wife Elisabeth, whose family were also displaced .

Gillich earned his first money in Germany by trading cigarettes , and later by working in a weaving mill . In September 1950 the Gillich family was able to leave the reception camp and moved to the Palatinate , first to Landau , then in 1951 to Haßloch . On April 24, 1954, Gillich married Elisabeth, with whom he had three sons. In 1976 Gillich, his wife and sons moved to Deidesheim .

Political commitment

In 1960 Gillich joined the CDU , before that he was already a member of the Junge Union . Gillich gained his first experience in local politics as a councilor and parliamentary group chairman in his former home town of Haßloch. In 1969 Gillich was elected to the newly formed district council of the Bad Dürkheim district and a deputy to the district administrator Hermann Scherer . Also in 1969 Gillich became chairman of the CDU district association. He stayed that way for 22 years until Norbert Schindler followed him in 1991.

On September 7, 1972, the election of the full-time mayor of the new community of Deidesheim took place. The CDU nominated Gillich for this office after the local mayor of Deidesheim at the time, Norbert Oberhettinger, had renounced the candidacy. Gillich took office on October 1, 1972 and held it until 1997. In 1975 Gillich was also elected honorary mayor of Deidesheim; he held this office until 2004.

In the Gillich era as local mayor of Deidesheim, the palace gardens near Deidesheim Palace were opened to visitors, a little later the city garden with many exotic plants, and the tower scribe was brought into being. Gillich signed the documents that sealed Deidesheim's partnerships with the communities of Bad Klosterlausnitz , Buochs , Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau and Tihany . At Gillich's invitation, the German Federal President Karl Carstens came to a public hike and the German Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbatschow on a state visit to Deidesheim. Gillich was able to receive these and numerous other state guests as Deidesheim City Mayor. For Hannelore Kohl , the late wife of the Chancellor and honorary citizen of Deidesheim, Helmut Kohl, Gillich and Kohl unveiled a memorial stone in the courtyard of the Deidesheim hospital .

Other offices

Gillich was from 1978 to 2003 on the regional board of the Rhineland-Palatinate Tourism Association, from 1987 to 1994 Vice President, then President until 2003; after that he was honorary chairman. Gillich was also the representative of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in the German Tourism Association and on the advisory board of the German National Tourist Board . For many years Gillich was also chairman of the hospital council of the Deidesheim hospital and of the supporting association of the museum for wine culture .

honors and awards

Fonts

literature

  • Heinz Schmitt , billy goat, wine and state visits. Deidesheim in the last 150 years , with a foreword by Stefan Gillich. Edited by of the city of Deidesheim, 2000, ISBN 3-922580-82-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ death display . In: rheinpfalz.de . 2nd February 2019.
  2. ↑ Gillich: daring , pp. 8–9
  3. ^ The events of November 25, 1944 in Filipowa
  4. ↑ Gillich: Dare to be , pp. 30–31
  5. ↑ Gillich: To dare , pp. 32–33
  6. ↑ Gillich: daring oneself , pp. 39–40
  7. ↑ Gillich: daring oneself , pp. 48, 50
  8. ↑ Gillich: daring oneself , p. 52
  9. ↑ Gillich: daring oneself , pp. 62, 64, 74
  10. ↑ Gillich: daring oneself , p. 66
  11. ↑ Heinz Schmitt: billy goat, wine and state visits - Deidesheim in the last 150 years . Landau 2000, ISBN 3-922580-82-3 , Deidesheim in the 19th and 20th centuries, p. 32 .
  12. ↑ Gillich: Dare to trust , pp. 71–72
  13. ↑ Heinz Schmitt: billy goat, wine and state visits - Deidesheim in the last 150 years . Landau 2000, ISBN 3-922580-82-3 , Deidesheim in the 19th and 20th centuries, p. 31.32 .
  14. ↑ Stefan Gillich: Dare yourself - find your own way. Memories. Deidesheim 2008, 35 years of successful local government and tourism policy - Dr. Heinz Schmitt , 1973-2007, p. 144, 147, 159, 162 .
  15. ↑ Heinz Schmitt: billy goat, wine and state visits - Deidesheim in the last 150 years . Landau 2000, ISBN 3-922580-82-3 , Deidesheim in the 19th and 20th centuries, p. 32 .
  16. ↑ Heinz Schmitt: billy goat, wine and state visits - Deidesheim in the last 150 years . Landau 2000, ISBN 3-922580-82-3 , high attendance, p. 89 .
  17. ↑ Jasper Rothfels: Deidesheim honors Hannelore Kohl. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, accessed on February 1, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Stefan Gillich: Dare yourself - find your own way. Memories. Deidesheim 2008, 35 years of successful local government and tourism policy - Dr. Heinz Schmitt, 1973-2007, p. 149 .
  19. ↑ Board of Directors. Rheinland-Pfalz Tourismus GmbH, accessed on February 1, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Stefan Gillich: Dare yourself - find your own way. Memories. Deidesheim 2008, 35 years of successful local government and tourism policy - Dr. Heinz Schmitt, 1973-2007, p. 149, 157 .
  21. ^ Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities . Arwid Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben 1998, ISBN 3-9804668-2-5 , p. 219 .
  22. ↑ Stefan Gillich: Dare yourself - find your own way. Memories. Deidesheim 2008, 35 years of successful local government and tourism policy - Dr. Heinz Schmitt, 1973-2007, p. 151 .
  23. ↑ Stefan Gillich: Dare yourself - find your own way. Memories. Deidesheim 2008, 35 years of successful local government and tourism policy - Dr. Heinz Schmitt, 1973-2007, p. 160 .
  24. ↑ Stefan Gillich: Dare yourself - find your own way. Memories. Deidesheim 2008, 35 years of successful local government and tourism policy - Dr. Heinz Schmitt, 1973-2007, p. 161 .
  25. ↑ Karl-Heinz Forler: Partnerships: The town of Deidesheim and its partner communities . Ed .: City of Deidesheim. Deidesheim 2002, p. 41 .
  26. ↑ Review of Schmitt, Geißbock, Wein ... , in: Informations Volkskunde in Rheinland-Pfalz , Issue 16/2, 2001, pp. 81–83.
personal data
SURNAME Gillich, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Backi Gračac
DATE OF DEATH 1st February 2019
Place of death Deidesheim