Werner Grübmeyer

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Werner Grübmeyer (2008)

Werner Grübmeyer (* 1. June 1926 in Lehe in Bremerhaven , † 5. October 2018 in Hannover ) was a German politician of the CDU . During his political career he was involved in state and local politics , disabled sports and nature conservation . From 1978 to 1986 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

After school and country year, Grübmeyer attended the Army NCOs pre-school in Hanover and became a Wehrmacht soldier in World War II . In October 1944 he was seriously wounded as a soldier and was 100 percent damaged by the war . After the end of the Second World War he began his university studies for teaching and worked as a teacher in various types of schools.

Grübmeyer came to Sankt Andreasberg in 1956 as rector of the local secondary and secondary school and was elected mayor of the city on March 19, 1961. He held this office for more than 37 years. As mayor and council member of the city, he fought for the establishment of the title “ State-approved climatic health resort ”, the preservation of the local hospital and the independence of the mountain town of Sankt Andreasberg.

He became head of department at the regional president in Hanover and worked as a consultant in the Ministry of Science and Art and in the Ministry of Culture. He was chairman of the school committee of the Lower Saxony City Council, member of the supervisory board of Wohnbau Gandersheim , member of the administrative board of Sparkasse Clausthal-Zellerfeld and member of the board of the Disabled Sports Association of Lower Saxony .

In 1961 Grübmeyer became councilor and mayor of the mountain town of Sankt Andreasberg. He was also a member of the district council and member of the district committee of the Zellerfeld district between 1961 and 1968 . In 1974 he became a member of the district council and member of the district committee as well as chairman of the CDU district parliamentary group in the Goslar district .

On June 21, 1978, Grübmeyer entered the Lower Saxony state parliament as a direct candidate for the CDU in the ninth electoral term . He was re-elected in the tenth electoral term and remained a member of the state parliament until 1986.

In addition, Grübmeyer was involved in numerous associations and performed a large number of voluntary activities. Shortly after the Second World War, he founded various clubs and in some cases also led them. He was Lower Saxony's first state disabled sports warden, organized the Federal Disabled Sports Festival in 1954 in Alfeld and the international winter games for the disabled from 1961 to 1964. In addition, Grübmeyer was a member of the Lower Saxony Sports Advisory Board, the Federal Sports Committee, District Chairman of the Social Association Germany , Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Indivisible Germany , Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education, member of the ZDF television council and chairman of the school and culture committee of the German Association of Cities for over 30 years . Since 1959, Grübmeyer was also a specialist advisor to Clausthal University of Technology and was a co-founder of the Clausthal environmental institute CUTEC (affiliate of the university). After the fall of the Wall in 1989, he campaigned intensively for matters in the Harz region. He accompanied the establishment of the Harz National Park in Lower Saxony intensively and was chairman of the National Park Advisory Board in 2006 since the merger with the Hochharz National Park in Saxony-Anhalt to form today's cross-border Harz National Park.

Grübmeyer was buried in the St. Andreasberg cemetery.

Honors

In 1954 he was awarded the silver laurel leaf , the highest sporting award in Germany.

On the occasion of the opening of the Metallurgical Center, Grübmeyer was made an honorary citizen of the Clausthal University of Technology in 1985. This honored him again in 2006 by naming a lecture hall after him.

Since 1997 he has been the recipient of the Great Federal Cross of Merit . The award ceremony took place on August 20, 1997 in the guest house of the Lower Saxony state government in Hanover. The laudator, Frank-Walter Steinmeier , said about Grübmeyer's work:

"In the many meetings that we have had, I was touched again and again by the pairing of persistence and charm with which you pursue your goals and interests - a double quality which I am sure that this is your very personal secret of success."

- Frank-Walter Steinmeier in his laudation

2001 Grübmeyer was made an honorary citizen of Sankt Andreasberg.

In 2016 the Dreibrode-Rundwanderweg was named after him and awarded the badge of honor of the state of Saxony-Anhalt .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Eggers: Werner Grübmeyer dies at the age of 92. In: GZ Live . October 8, 2018, accessed October 9, 2018 .
  2. ^ Obituary notice in the supplement family advertisements in the daily newspaper [[Neue Presse (Hannover) |]] of October 13, 2018, p. 6
  3. ↑ a b A separate lecture hall for his 80th birthday: TU honors Werner Grübmeyer on June 19, 2006
  4. ↑ a b http://www.focus.de/regional/sachsen-anhalt/personen-vorsitzender-des-harz-nationalpark-beirats-geehre_id_5663902.html
  5. ↑ http://www.nationalpark-harz.de/de/aktuelles/2016/2016_06_Gruebmeyer_Ehrung/
personal data
SURNAME Grübmeyer, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL, honorary citizen of Sankt Andreasberg
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Lehe
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 2018
Place of death Hanover