Miesbach - His real name was Joachim, but all of Miesbach called him Jochen.
And for Jochen Stasch it was an award.
After all, as Zuagroasta, he not only managed to find a home in the district town, but also to be valued - as a teacher, as a city councilor, as a mountain rifleman.
The Bavarian form of Joachim showed this appreciation in everyday life.
Jochen Stasch recently passed away at the age of 92.
He was born on June 29, 1929 in Ratibor, Silesia, where he grew up and went to school.
The turmoil of World War II brought him to the Sudetenland and then to Saxony.
After he found his parents again in Munich, he lived in Bavaria from 1946.
Here he did his agricultural apprenticeship, completed his studies as an engineer for agricultural economics at the technical college and studied further to become an agricultural vocational school teacher.
To study in the USA
As part of a scholarship, he did something that was still unusual so shortly after the war: he studied agricultural education for two semesters at Pennsylvania State University in the USA.
There he graduated with a "Master of Education".
Stasch had also found his way in the family.
In 1957 he married his wife Antonia, who came from Lenggries.
He had a daughter and was later happy to have four grandchildren and even his great-grandchild.
It was also 1957 when he switched to the vocational school in Miesbach.
He stayed there until his retirement, which he took up as director of studies and deputy headmaster.
Two terms on the city council
He was politically committed to the CSU for Miesbach and made it to the city council twice: the first time from 1972 to 1978 and then again from 1984 to 1990. He was very much appreciated in his local club.
"I saw him as honest, honest, positive and always objective", says Third Mayor Franz Mayer, and his parliamentary group colleague Alfred Mittermaier adds: "He had phenomenal knowledge and was a critical but objective colleague." Ex-City Councilor Dirk Thelemann describes him as follows: “He got to the bottom of things, but was solution-oriented.
He wanted to come to decisions. "
Founding member of the mountain riflemen
Not only Stasch's analytical mind will be remembered by City Councilor Markus Baumgartner: "He was someone who was precise, helpful and very reliable."
“He did a great job with us,” says Captain Josef Nowak, also referring to the chronicle he wrote.
But there is one thing Jochen Stasch never managed to do: to speak Bavarian.
“As a logical consequence, he didn't do that,” remembers Baumgartner.
"He didn't want to be put on and that's why he arrived in Miesbach."
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The urn burial
takes place on Friday, November 26th, in Miesbach.
The service begins at 10 a.m.