Ursula Grille

Ursula Grille (2000)

Ursula Grille , b. Hahn (born September 10, 1942 in Marburg ; † July 20, 2002 in Erlangen ) was a social secretary at the Evangelical Church in Bavaria and a Bavarian local politician. From 1978 to 2002 she was City Councilor ( CSU ) of the city of Erlangen.

Career

Ursula Grille was the first of three children of Protestant pastor Heinrich Hahn and his wife Ursula. Her father died of cancer at the age of 48. As a result, she was unable to attend school until she graduated from high school, and at the age of 16 did her secondary school leaving certificate in Marburg. She then went to Manchester as an au pair. After her return to Germany, she learned to be a nurse in Mülheim an der Ruhr. She worked in this profession until about 1969.

In 1969 I became acquainted with Käthe Truhel, a co-founder of the Protestant “Action Group for Employee Issues”, which Ursula Grille won in the same year for church social work in the Bavarian social parish , today “ Church Service in the Working World ” (KDA) in Nuremberg could. Ursula Grille completed her training as a social secretary and worked in this profession until she retired for health reasons in 1998.

In 1962 she married Dietrich Grille . The marriage resulted in two sons and two daughters between 1963 and 1972. Ursula Grille died on July 20, 2002 of multiple organ failure caused by medical malpractice that triggered an infection with multi-resistant germs.

Party political and social engagement

Grille was deputy CSA state chairman at the beginning of the 1970s, a member of the DGB state district executive proposed by the CSA , Central Franconian CSA district chairperson (advising on the "Nuremberg CSA model" of co-determination, partly in charge of the Weissenburg CSU vocational training congress "for the dual system" 1975) ), later spokeswoman for social affairs in the CSU city council and member of the social committee of the Bavarian city council. Before joining the CSU, Ursula Grille showed herself to be critically autonomous. On the occasion of the referendum for a “Christian community school” she forced the disclosure of the entry lists hidden by the mayor of her place of residence. As a result, she experienced a defeat when drawing up the Erlangen list for the city council election in 1972: She was voted down in every ballot. In 1978, Grille ran again for the Erlangen city council and was able to work his way up from position 22 in 1978 to eighth in 1996 in the next four elections from the list position she was allocated to. Some of their Erlangen innovations were the first Erlangen learning room in 1970, the week of the foreign fellow citizen, the three year courses in the ABM special program “Working and Learning” of their “Society for Employee Issues”. The "Social City Map 2002", a visualized inventory of public and private services of the Erlangen welfare organization, was her idea and work. Because of her poor health, caused by a medical malpractice, she resigned her honorary posts in 2001 and last resigned from the Erlangen city council in March 2002.

Ursula Grille took over the chairmanship of the emergency association for medical victims in Bavaria on November 14th, 1998 in a critical phase and brought her professional experience to the table and ensured the survival of the association in a difficult phase.

She was an active member of the boards of the church, the Protestant educational organization, the working group of Protestant social secretaries, as well as the regional board of Protestant women's work. In addition, she represented the interests of employees and marginalized social groups as a works council member in the Office for Industry and Social Work of the Evangelical Church in Bavaria and in the regional board of GDB Bavaria. She also worked as a councilor for Erlangen, as a deputy. State chairwoman of the workers' union in the CSU (CSA) in Bavaria and as an honorary judge at the Ansbach administrative court.

Honors

Minister of State Hans Maurer attached the Federal Cross of Merit to Ursula Grille on November 10, 1991. Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker had awarded Ursula Grille the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on August 27, 1991 at the suggestion of Bavarian Prime Minister Max Streibl. Grille was honored for her diverse services in the church sector as well as union, local authority and party work.

source

• "... you should be a blessing!", commemorative volume, Europaforum-Verlag, Lauf ad Pegnitz, 2003, ISBN 3-931070-35-2 .