He taught half of the Bavarian municipal council: Former village teacher celebrates milestone birthday

Created: 2022-01-18Updated: 2022-01-18, 10:05 am

By: Martin Becker

Local curator Günter Staudter, now 80, pours sparkling wine for birthday guests with his wife Ursula.

© Martin Becker

Günter Staudter is a living legend in the community of Bavaria.

And not just because he taught half the local council there.

This former mayor also congratulated him on his 80th birthday.

Baiern/Unterhaching – Home is a difficult question. Where is the? Where do you live? Where there is a special association? Günter Staudter thinks for a moment. "Half-half," he says on his 80th birthday. He has lived in Unterhaching for more than five decades and was appointed parish curator in 2004 – that is one home. The other: Bavaria in the district of Ebersberg, where the trained pedagogue worked for what felt like an eternity “as a village teacher”, as he puts it, and had a second home for 35 years until he retired, namely the teacher’s apartment in the school building.

So it shouldn't come as a surprise that, after his wife Ursula (77), a small delegation from Bavaria was among the first to wish well on his 80th birthday.

Former mayor Josef Zistl paid his respects in Unterhaching, Günter Staudter was amazed: "It was really a surprise that I never expected."

The 80-year-old is there, one can confidently say and write it, a living legend.

Local curator Günter Staudter's wish for Unterhaching: please don't build any more

Günter Staudter sets no less accents in Unterhaching, where he meticulously documents the history of the community as a home caretaker and wishes: "That nothing more is built - at some point it will just be over."

For his 80th birthday he tried to summarize the cornerstones of his life in a “short biography”, which then fills up to three DIN A4 pages.

Village teacher, local curator, family man, also an enthusiastic supporter of scouting - and not to forget the love of travel that led Günter Staudter and his Ursel to half the world in the next 50 years of marriage.

After Japan, Alaska or Guatemala, the focus today is on home: The Bundeswehr University in Neubiberg inquires about the history of the military airport, the history of 100 years of the parish of St. Korbinian in Unterhaching wants to be processed.

Home care worker turns 80: old scout leitmotif as a principle of life

The now 80-year-old thrives on volunteer work, and he also gives his all in his private life.

"He cooks, he shops, he's very hard-working," says Ursel, his wife for almost 50 years.

This fits in with what Günter Staudter defined for himself, based on an old scout leitmotif, as a personal principle in life: "I serve."

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