Wolfgang Vorwerk

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Wolfgang Vorwerk (2020)

Wolfgang Vorwerk (born August 21, 1948 in Würzburg ) is a German diplomat , local researcher and lawyer .

Life

Vorwerk grew up and went to school in Lohr am Main , where he graduated from high school in 1967 (today Franz-Ludwig-von-Erthal-Gymnasium). After completing his law studies at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg in 1972, he received a scholarship from the Council of the European Movement ( European Movement Germany eV since 1992 ) for postgraduate studies at the College of Europe in Bruges , which he completed in 1973 with a Degree in European law. In 1978 he received his doctorate from the University of Würzburg.

From 1975 to 2008 Vorwerk was part of the Foreign Service. It was used at the headquarters in Bonn and Berlin as well as at the German embassies in the Soviet Union, Libya, Albania, Kazakhstan and Algeria, and at the Consulate General in Boston (USA). In Libya (1985–1988), Vorwerk was head of the Tripoli embassy from April 1986 to autumn 1988 after the German ambassador Rolf Enders was recalled during the Libyan crisis ( La Belle Diskothek) . From 1998 to 2004, Vorwerk was first head of the Middle East Department in Bonn and Berlin, then Middle East representative with the rank of ambassador. He created the “three-step plan” with which Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer gave the decisive impetus for the roadmap (Middle East conflict) in 2002 .

As Consul General in Boston (2004–2008), Vorwerk was the first official German representative to be invited by the Jewish community in 2005 and in the following years to speak at the annual memorial service on Yom haScho'a , the Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Faneuil Hall . Vorwerk also worked for the Bremen Senate Chancellery from 1994–1996 under the mayors Klaus Wedemeier and Henning Scherf . In 1997 he was assigned to the staff of the OSCE Special Representative for Albania, Franz Vranitzky , in Tirana for several months during the Albania crisis ( lottery uprising ) .

Vorwerk is considered the "initiator" (according to District Administrator Thomas Schiebel) of the revitalization of the sponsorship of the Main-Spessart district with the naval supply ship "Spessart", which he discovered as an escort ship when visiting a NATO frigate association in the port of Boston in 2004.

Since November 2017 he has been the first chairman of the History and Museum Association in Lohr a. Main .

Wolfgang Vorwerk is married and has one son. He has lived in Bremen since 2008.

Local history work

In Lohr am Main and beyond, Vorwerk is known for its regular publications on local history . Vorwerk is the great-great-grandson of the Fürth landscape painter Peter Conrad Schreiber (1816–1894), who was a student of August Wilhelm Schirmer and Carl Blechen . In 2018 and 2019 he made a significant contribution to the creation of public memorials in the city of Lohr, with which the memory of the small Jewish community that existed until 1939 should be kept alive. For the first time, the life and fate of the Jewish patients in the former sanatorium and nursing home, today's district hospital , were included.

Honors

Lectures

  • 1989 Lecture on the 150th anniversary of the " Latin School Lohr" of the Franz-Ludwig-von-Erthal-Gymnasium,
  • 2009 Commencement speech to graduates of Franklin College in Lugano, named after Benjamin Franklin

Publications

  • Historical search for traces. Contributions to the history of the Lohrer Schloss- und Amtsviertel, to the street history of the Spessart and to some other topics. (= Publications of the history and museum association Lohr am Main. Episode 33). Lohr 2000, ISBN 3-934128-04-1 .
  • Harald Bichlmeier, Wolfgang Vorwerk: On the water and place name Lohr: previous research and new ideas. (Bavarian-Austrian names of places and waters from an Indo-European perspective. Part 5). In: Leaves for Upper German Name Research. Volume 51, 2014, pp. 15–86
  • Wolfgang Vorwerk: The 'Lohrer Schneewittchen' - On the fabulology of a fairy tale. In: Christian Grandl, Kevin J.McKenna: Bis dat, qui cito dat. Counterpart in Paremiology, Folklore, Language and Literature. Honoring Wolfgang Mieder on His Seventieth Birthday. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-64872-8 , pp. 491–503.
  • The exchange of goods between Emperor Ludwig the Pious and Fulda Monastery in 839. On the street history of the wooden churches in Fulda. In: Wertheimer Jahrbuch 2013/2014 (2015), pp. 17–46.
  • On the 80th anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938: The fate of Lohr's former Jewish fellow citizens under National Socialism. In: Contributions to the history of the city and the area of ​​Lohr, edition 2018 (= writings of the Geschichts- und Museumsverein Lohr a. Main eV, episode 61. Lohr 2018, ISBN 978-3-944413-14-3 , pp. 241–346. )
  • Lohr and his former Jewish community (1864-1939). In: Contributions to the history of the city and the area of ​​Lohr, edition 2019 (= writings of the Geschichts- und Museumsverein Lohr e.V., episode 66. Lohr 2019, ISBN 978-3-944413-21-1 , pp. 211–268. )
  • Jewish life in Lohr. The former "Israelite Pavilion" on the site of today's district hospital on the Sommerberg. In: Contributions to the history of the city and the area of ​​Lohr, edition 2019 (= writings of the Geschichts- und Museumsverein Lohr a. Main eV, episode 66. Lohr 2019, ISBN 978-3-944413-21-1 , pp. 292-305. )

Individual evidence

  1. The execution of joint acts by the federal and state governments with special consideration of Art. 57 EECV. Dissertation to obtain the doctoral degree of the Faculty of Law of the Bavarian Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . Self-published, Würzburg 1977
  2. Monika Büdel: Lohr is on the way to the Middle East timetable. In: Lohrer Echo. April 20, 2011.
  3. Joschka Fischer: I am not convinced. The Iraq war and the red-green years. Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-462-04081-4 , pp. 114–116.
  4. This and other speeches are reprinted from: Susie Davidson: In Gratitude and Hope. Remarks by Dr. Wolfgang Vorwerk, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany to Boston, 2004–2008. Ibbetson Street Press, Somerville, MA 2008, ISBN 978-0-9795313-8-5 .
  5. Wolfgang Vorwerk, Captain Wolfgang Schmid and Holger Steiger. The sponsorship of the marine tanker "Spessart". In: The Main-Spessart district. History and stories. A book for the 40th anniversary of the Main-Spessart district. Ed .: District Office Main-Spessart, Karlstadt. Würzburg, (July) 2012. pp. 84-101
  6. Mainpost, November 30, 2017, p. 25.
  7. ^ Wolfgang Vorwerk: Historical search for traces. Contributions to the history of the Lohrer Schloss- und Amtsviertel, to the street history of the Spessart and to some other topics. (= Publications of the history and museum association Lohr am Main. Episode 33). Lohr 2000, ISBN 3-934128-04-1 .
  8. Wolfgang Vorwerk: Peter Conrad Schreiber, a landscape painter from Fürth in the 19th century. A contribution to his 200th birthday in two parts. In: Fürth history sheets. Issue 4 year 2015 and issue 1 year 2016.
  9. On the 80th anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938: The fate of Lohr's former Jewish fellow citizens under National Socialism. In: Contributions to the history of the city and the area of ​​Lohr, edition 2018 (= writings of the Geschichts- und Museumsverein Lohr a. Main e.V., episode 61. Lohr 2018. ISBN 978-3-944413-18-1 ). Pp. 241-346.
  10. Lohr and his former Jewish community (1864–1939). In: Contributions to the history of the city and the area of ​​Lohr, edition 2019 (= Writings of the History and Museum Association Lohr a. Main eV, episode 66. Lohr 2019. ISBN 978-3-944413-21-1 ). Pp. 211-268.
  11. ^ Jewish life in Lohr. The former "Israelite Pavilion" on the site of today's district hospital on the Sommerberg. In: Contributions to the history of the city and the area of ​​Lohr, edition 2019 (= writings of the history and museums association Lohr a. Main e.V., episode 66. Lohr 2019. ISBN 978-3-944413-21-1 ), p. 292-305.