Straßlach-Dingharting mourns the loss of his former primary school teacher Charlotte Kunze-Eschner. She died at the age of 85.
Straßlach-Dingharting - At the New Year reception of the municipality of Straßlach-Dingharting a year and a half ago, it was awarded an honor plate and badge of honor. Charlotte Kunze-Eschner, former municipal councilor of Dingharting, who also founded the first kindergarten in the municipality, stood smiling next to Mayor Hans Sienerth (party-free). Told a little of her life as a primary school teacher and confessed that even if she sometimes scolded the children, she had always fallen into Bavarian. Now she has died at the age of 85.
Charlotte Kunze-Eschner grew up in Garmisch, where she was sent as a trainee teacher to help at elementary school in Dingharting. It was a “real village school”, she once said, with 40, 50 children in one class. She later moved to Egling.
1972 moved into the town council
But Dingharting, which had become her new home, changed her forever. On the one hand, she moved to the local council in 1972, already mother of a son, and once reported that she came to the office "like a virgin to a child". She was a member of the committee for two elections, with the second election then already taking place in the forcedly united Straßlach-Dingharting.
She was involved in a kindergarten in the old school house
And also in 1972, which was “the year of my life”, as she said on the occasion of her honor, her commitment to ensuring that the old school building in Dingharting was preserved. Because the school had meanwhile been relocated to Straßlach, the building was now empty, and there were people in the community who thought it might be possible to tear down the beautiful house. "You are not clever," Charlotte Kunze-Eschner told them - and worked to open a kindergarten in the old property. That's exactly how it happened.
"The whole community worked very hard," she said at the New Year's reception. An oil heater had to be installed, "it was difficult to get money". Finally, a kindergarten teacher, the mother of the former municipal councilor Horst Wagner, and a nanny "threw the shop ten years". Among the boys and girls who looked after them were many farmers' children from all around the hamlet, "they had never seen a kindergarten from the inside". The fact that the "old villa", as the facility is called today, has been extensively renovated by the community in recent years - Ms. Kunze-Eschner, Mayor Sienerth knows, "was incredibly pleased".
Mayor: "Thank you for what you have done"
Lately, the town hall chief reports, she has spent a lot of time tracking down former students to returning her pictures from art classes. "That was important to her." Otherwise, she must have been a very confident teacher. At the New Year's reception, she said with a smile: “There are some people here who still went to school with me. I don't know if they love or hate me, and I don't care either. ”Hans Sienerth says:“ I am very grateful to her for what she has done. ”
