Wolfgang Niederhöfer

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Wolfgang Niederhöfer (born April 16, 1932 in Kleinkarlbach ; † December 2, 2017 ) was a German homeland researcher and mill expert who also made a name for himself as a local and regional politician for the SPD . In addition, he was active in the senior citizens policy of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate well into old age .

Life

During his professional life, Niederhöfer worked as a high-voltage electrician at the chemical company BASF in Ludwigshafen . He lived in Kleinkarlbach, his birthplace in the Palatinate, and was the father of four children. Son Reinhold , like his father a member of the SPD, was mayor of the community of Grünstadt-Land , which was incorporated into the newly formed community of Leiningerland on January 1, 2018 , from 2010 to December 31, 2017 .

meaning

Home history

VG Grünstadt-Land

On behalf of his home community, Niederhöfer was responsible for the presentation of the local history on the Internet. In his function as archivist for the Neuleiningen local history and culture association based in the neighboring town, he contributed to the creation of numerous community chronicles in the area. At home yearbook of the district Bad Durkheim he was one of the regular writers.

In the State Archive Speyer Niederhöfer sighted historical documents and Urkataster and evaluated the data from scientific. For many years he dealt with the coats of arms of the local parishes of the Palatinate Leiningerland . The knowledge he acquired enabled him to create templates for the coat of arms of the then new community of Grünstadt-Land in the 1970s.

Regional culture

Signpost on the Eckbach-Mühlenwanderweg with the logo
Dorfmühle Großkarlbach, the mill museum

As a member of the German Society for Milling Customer and Mill Maintenance (DGM) , Niederhöfer campaigned primarily for the continuation of the 23 mills on Eckbach in the Leiningerland that were still completely or partially preserved .

In years of negotiations with the municipalities of Grünstadt-Land and Hettenleidelheim , which merged in 2018 to form the new municipality of Leiningerland , he succeeded in setting up the Eckbach-Mühlenwanderweg and inaugurating it on October 12, 1997 by the then Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate, Kurt Beck . Niederhöfer regularly organized guided tours on the hiking trail into old age. On these occasions he gladly recited the full poem of the dialect poet Albert H. Keil from the 1997 inauguration.

The logo of the hiking trail consists of a stylized building typified by the silhouette of a mill wheel ; the wavy line below symbolizes the Eckbach. The logo that identifies the wooden, hand-made information signs comes from a school competition. Niederhöfer initiated this in 1996, and the motif was designed by Cosmas Kösters from Kirchheim . Niederhöfer recorded the history of the Eckbach mills in a 50-page manual.

Almost ten years after the creation of the hiking trail, on June 22, 2007, the village mill in Großkarlbach, restored on Niederhöfer's initiative, was opened by the then Rhineland-Palatinate Interior Minister Karl Peter Bruch and put into operation as the Leiningerland mill museum . In part of the building, rooms for the municipal administration and a meeting room were also set up.

politics

Niederhöfer became a member of the SPD at an early age and was chairman of the local SPD association in Kleinkarlbach from 1972 to 1987. He represented his party as an elected councilor for years in his place of residence and from 1974 to 1994 also in the community of Grünstadt-Land.

Within the party, Niederhöfer became known up to the state level through his involvement in the working group 60 plus of the SPD . When he retired from his offices in the AG in 2011 at the age of 79 due to illness, this affected his functions as its chairman in the SPD sub-district Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , as deputy chairman in the regional association of the Palatinate and as a board member in the state association of Rhineland-Palatinate, the he had also co-founded.

Outside of the party work, Niederhöfer was one of the founding fathers of the Grünstadt-Land e. V. and in the first few years acted as 2nd chairman and as a contact for politics and the media. In the months before his death, Leiningerland e. Was also involved in the preparatory work for the expansion of the association . V. to the new community. The periodical “Spätlese” published by the association since December 1997, a newspaper by seniors for seniors, is largely due to his instigation.

Honors

Publications

  • Wolfgang Niederhöfer and Verbandsgemeinde Grünstadt-Land (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the opening of the Mühlenwanderweg . Kleinkarlbach and Grünstadt 1997 (without ISBN).
  • Wolfgang Niederhöfer and Erwin Martin: Großkarlbach am Eckbach-Mühlenwanderweg . In: Erwin Martin (ed.): Palatinate village history . Walter E. Keller Verlag, Treuchtlingen 1998, ISBN 3-924828-95-4 , p. 43-65 .
  • Wolfgang Niederhöfer: The engines along the Eckbach-Mühlenwanderweg in the community of Grünstadt-Land . 2nd Edition. Kleinkarlbach 1999 (without ISBN).
  • Verbandsgemeinde Hettenleidelheim (ed.): Hiking is the miller's pleasure ... (with five contributions by Wolfgang Niederhöfer) . Hettenleidelheim 1999 (without ISBN).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joes (Jörg Schifferstein): Wolfgang Niederhöfer died . In: Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Unterhaardter Rundschau . No. 280 . Ludwigshafen December 4, 2017, p. 22 .
  2. ↑ a b Senior Citizens' Advisory Board Grünstadt-Land (ed.): Spätlese. Festschrift for the 20th anniversary . No. 21.1 . Grünstadt April 7, 2017, p. 4-7 (preamble).
  3. ^ Wolfgang Niederhöfer: History. www.kleinkarlbach.de, accessed on December 18, 2017 (Chronicle of Kleinkarlbach).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i jös (Jörg Schifferstein): Wolfgang Niederhöfer has passed away. www.rheinpfalz.de, December 4, 2017, accessed January 5, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Senior Citizens' Advisory Board Grünstadt-Land (Ed.): Spätlese. Festschrift for the 20th anniversary . No. 21.1 . Grünstadt April 7, 2017, p. 20 (coat of arms).
  6. ↑ a b Inauguration of the Eckbach-Mühlenwanderweg. (No longer available online.) Www.gruenstadt-land.de, October 1997, archived from the original on June 17, 2016 ; Retrieved December 20, 2017 .
  7. ^ Albert H. Keil: E klänni Mihleg'schicht. Verlag PfalzMundArt, accessed on January 18, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Topic on Saturday: The village mill in Großkarlbach is inaugurated . In: Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen June 23, 2007.
  9. ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Niederhöfer 75. www.spd-ubnw.de, April 2007, accessed on December 20, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Niederhöfer disembarks. spd-ag60plus-suedpfalz.de, October 2011, accessed on December 20, 2017 .
  11. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Niederhöfer is dead. Spd-ag60plus-suedpfalz.de, December 2017, accessed on December 20, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Senior Citizens' Advisory Board Grünstadt-Land (Ed.): Spätlese. Festschrift for the 20th anniversary . No. 21.1 . Grünstadt April 7, 2017, p. 21 (chronicle).
  13. ↑ Senior Citizens' Advisory Board Grünstadt-Land (Ed.): Spätlese. Festschrift for the 20th anniversary . No. 21.1 . Grünstadt April 7, 2017, p. 25 (contact person).
  14. ↑ Senior Citizens' Advisory Board Grünstadt-Land (Ed.): Spätlese. Festschrift for the 20th anniversary . No. 21.1 . Grünstadt April 7, 2017, p. 23 (late harvest since 12/1997).
personal data
SURNAME Niederhöfer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher, mill expert and politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinkarlbach
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 2017