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A busy jack of all trades: Helmut Hahn awarded the city's culture prize

2022-07-01T15:10:29.756Z


A busy jack of all trades: Helmut Hahn awarded the city's culture prize Created: 07/01/2022 17:01 The new culture award winner: Helmut Hahn (2nd from right, with his wife Barbara), cultural advisor Hans Ketelhut (left) and Mayor Michael Müller. © Hans Lippert Helmut Hahn - board member of the Egerländer Gmoi and active in many other associations - received the city's culture prize this year. G


A busy jack of all trades: Helmut Hahn awarded the city's culture prize

Created: 07/01/2022 17:01

The new culture award winner: Helmut Hahn (2nd from right, with his wife Barbara), cultural advisor Hans Ketelhut (left) and Mayor Michael Müller.

© Hans Lippert

Helmut Hahn - board member of the Egerländer Gmoi and active in many other associations - received the city's culture prize this year.

Geretsried – Finding a common thread to describe Helmut Hahn's life and work is difficult.

"You are networked with everyone and interwoven with everything," said laudator Ludwig Schmid.

In fact, with the new culture award winner Hahn, one voluntary position leads to another, one club membership results from the other.

His father, who died much too early, came from the Egerland, his mother is a Hungarian-German from Pusztavám.

That's why Helmut Hahn is not only chairman of the Egerländer Gmoi, but also active with the Germans from Hungary and also with the Transylvanian Saxons.

Because he can hardly be dispensed with as a tubist in the Gartenberg bunker brass band, he kept mingling with the musicians between the speeches at his own award ceremony on Thursday evening in the Ratsstubensaal.

A busy jack of all trades: Helmut Hahn awarded the city's culture prize

Hahn's involvement in the former local history museum and his tireless commitment to the construction of the current city museum deserve special mention;

he is chairman of the association.

Due to the proximity to Pusztavám, one of the three friendship communities of Geretsried, the deputy chairmanship of the association of town friendships arose.

The engineering graduate joined the interest group for the preservation of the St. Nicholas Chapel because he married his wife Barbara in the church and his daughters Leonie and Johanna were baptized there.

The list of honorary posts can be continued in a similar way with the volunteer fire brigade, the Egerland Museum Association in Marktredwitz, the Catholic Workers' Movement, the German Life Saving Society, the Alpine Association, and, and, and.

Volunteering in Geretsried: Helmut Hahn is involved in many clubs

"You're conservative in the best sense of the word.

You keep values, traditions and customs,” said Ludwig Schmid.

He didn't hide the fact that the jack of all trades, the "Adabei", as he called Hahn, had burned out a few years ago.

Since then, "Happy" Hahn - his nickname goes back to the fact that one of his cousins ​​called him "Hewi" as a small child because he couldn't pronounce Helmut - has paid more attention to himself.

He has concentrated on chairing the Egerländer Gmoi, the most active and the largest in Germany.

Mayor Michael Müller said that cultural life could not take place without volunteers like Helmut Hahn.

"Our country needs culture," he emphasized, it enriches and invigorates.

Müller welcomed all the living Geretsried culture award winners since 2005 as well as a number of citizen award winners in the hall.

Both are selected by the Committee for Youth, Senior Citizens, Social Affairs, Culture and Sport (Jusskus) from suggestions from the population and determined by the city council.

Helmut Hahn: "All you Egerlanders deserve the award"

Hahn said modestly that he was chosen this year: "All of you Egerlanders deserve the award.

I'm just the mediator and moderator.” He dedicates the culture prize to his daughters Leonie and Johanna – both of whom are just as involved in the Gmoi as their father.

It should serve as an incentive for them to pass on the traditions of their old homeland to the next generation.

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The prize, a sculpture by the sculptress Antonia Leitner from Reichersbeuern, was presented by Geretsried's cultural advisor, Hans Ketelhut.

With a buffet, where typical Egerland specialties such as Powidlgolatschen could not be missing, the festive evening ended with nice conversations.

Source: merkur

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