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Joint service to others: Maria and Gisbert Becker shaped villages

2021-07-17T14:08:47.741Z


Maria and Gisbert Becker did many honorary posts in Dorfen and also raised foster children. Maria and Gisbert Becker did many honorary posts in Dorfen and also raised foster children. Dorfen - people are noble, helpful and good - that is the maxim of Maria and Gisbert Becker, who celebrated their diamond wedding on Thursday. The well-known and volunteer couple from Dorfen can look back on a happy time. Gisbert Becker is well read; the 84-year-old explains his political commitment almost


Maria and Gisbert Becker did many honorary posts in Dorfen and also raised foster children.

Dorfen

- people are noble, helpful and good - that is the maxim of Maria and Gisbert Becker, who celebrated their diamond wedding on Thursday.

The well-known and volunteer couple from Dorfen can look back on a happy time.

Gisbert Becker is well read; the 84-year-old explains his political commitment almost philosophically.

“Polis, that comes from the Greek and means city,” he says.

It is precisely here, in your own municipality, that you have to start and initiate things.

As a Christian Socialist, Becker was elected to the city council in 1978.

Among other things, he was Vice Mayor from 2002 to 2014.

On his initiative, the flood department was introduced in the city council in 2002.

He was in charge of this until he left.

During that time, among other things, the flood drainage improvements in Dorfen and the new Isen weir system were built.

The topic continues to concern him today, as does the railway expansion.

He owes a lot to his father, says the visionary.

Becker's father, bank advisor and art dealer, came from Dortmund and moved to Munich in 1931.

Son Gisbert was born there.

In 1943 the family was evacuated to Tüntenhausen (Freising district) because of the war.

There he met his wife: “We were children from the neighborhood, went to school together,” remembers Maria Becker, who is no less committed than her husband: The 82-year-old was one of the founders of the Dorfener Frauenunion and was a district councilor for twelve years.

The journey to school became the common life of the Beckers.

In 1961 they sealed the marriage bond in St. Peters Church in Munich.

Becker was a professional soldier.

He started his career with the tank artillery battalion in Koblenz.

Many stations followed, such as the officers' schools in Munich and Neubiberg.

In 1964 Becker was stationed at US Army Fort Bliss in Texas for six months.

His wife went with him.

This is where the eldest son learned to walk, they remember.

An unforgettable trip for everyone.

They came to Dorfen by chance, the Beckers tell us.

When visiting a school friend who lives in Dorfen, they saw an advertisement in the window of the Kreissparkasse - they bought land and built.

They have been living and working in Isenstadt since 1972.

The couple raised three children and also looked after foster children.

The Beckers hosted a young man who was “very difficult” at the time for almost seven years.

They are still happy today that they were able to give him a basis and that he therefore leads a completely normal life today.

“It was always important to both of us to help,” says Gisbert Becker.

To be there for other people when they need a listener, but also to lend a hand when there is a need for a woman or a man.

“That is our basic principle,” says the ex-soldier.

"We just did it, no matter how things end." That's why he also loves the Bavarian "Look, then seng ma scho!"

Gisbert Becker is still cycling, he was a sports advisor in the Dorfen city council.

His “Sports Concept 2020” had the vision of moving the sports facilities to the outskirts, among other things.

In addition, he was tennis club chairman from 1976 to 1997.

He accompanied the construction of the ESC artificial ice stadium and the relocation of the TSV sports grounds in Dorfen.

Meanwhile, Maria Becker worked in the city library, which she headed from 1992 to this year.

She also sings at the Liedertafel and in the Algasing church choir.

So much honorary work has been awarded several times, for example the city's citizen medal in 2006. Her husband Gisbert received the citizen medal two years later.

MICHAELE HESKE

Source: merkur

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