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When the chemistry is right: Still working as a teacher after 45 years

2022-10-12T04:12:24.441Z


When the chemistry is right: Still working as a teacher after 45 years Created: 10/12/2022, 06:00 By: Doris Schmid From chemical technician to manager of the warehousing department: Klaus Dudek has held many positions in his professional life at Rudolf Chemie. © Hermsdorf-Hiss Klaus Dudek has been working for the same employer for 45 years - and he likes it. Why the Geretsrieder was never draw


When the chemistry is right: Still working as a teacher after 45 years

Created: 10/12/2022, 06:00

By: Doris Schmid

From chemical technician to manager of the warehousing department: Klaus Dudek has held many positions in his professional life at Rudolf Chemie.

© Hermsdorf-Hiss

Klaus Dudek has been working for the same employer for 45 years - and he likes it.

Why the Geretsrieder was never drawn to another company.

Geretsried – What should become of me?

Many students ask themselves this question – at the latest when the final exams are approaching.

Klaus Dudek's thoughts revolved around this question as he approached graduation in 1977.

The then 16-year-old was at a loss.

On the advice of his mother, the junior high school student introduced himself to the company Rudolf Chemie – and got an apprenticeship as a chemical technician.

A good choice, as it turned out.

In an interview with our newspaper, the Geretsrieder reveals why he is still working for the same employer after 45 years.

Dudek was the baby of the family, which came from Upper Silesia.

His two older brothers had chosen technical professions.

When he presented himself to the Rudolf company in Geretsried, he said he was open to all sorts of things.

"Learning was always easy for me." The trainee positions for chemical laboratory assistants had already been filled - that would have interested him.

But he was offered the opportunity to train as a chemical technician.

Dudek agreed.

After military service, he climbed the career ladder

The Geretsrieder explains the exact difference between a chemical laboratory assistant and a chemical technician as follows: “A chemical laboratory assistant mixes together very small amounts of what the textile engineers have thought of in order to achieve certain effects on a piece of clothing.

The chemist does the small on a large scale.” He likens the chemist to a chef who stirs together all the ingredients for a dish.

Only the chemical technician's cooking pot is a bit bigger, adds the 61-year-old with a smile.

16 cubic meters fit into one of the reactors on the Rudolf site.

After his three-year apprenticeship, Dudek was taken on.

Then the young man had to do compulsory military service.

He was then able to return to Rudolf – and move up straight away.

"The vice hall master retired at the time," Dudek recalls.

So he became a deputy, and a year later he was promoted to the master's position.

In addition to his work, the chemical technician attended master school.

The goal: the industrial foreman chemistry.

He went to school in the evenings and at weekends for almost three and a half years.

"It was a very stressful time," says Dudek.

At the age of 26 he had the title in his pocket.

Even after 45 years of work, Dudek enjoys working for Rudolf

Then it went steadily up the career ladder: from production manager to technical manager of the branch in Switzerland, to production coordination during the introduction of two-shift operation in Geretsried to management of materials management.

Then his path took him abroad again - this time to Turkey (today the most successful and largest investment company outside of Geretsried) and to Iran - and back to Geretsried.

Since 2016, Dudek has been head of the warehousing department.

Even after 45 years of work, Dudek enjoys working for Rudolf.

The physical proximity to his workplace is priceless, he says.

What he values ​​about his employer is the flat hierarchies and trusting cooperation.

"I was always given a long leash," says the 61-year-old, "and I was able to deal with it." He likes to think about the expansion of the office building, in which he was able to get involved as part of the team.

"It makes you think about how it could look like." Seeing it then "makes me proud".

New tasks brought new challenges

How did he endure it there for so long?

Dudek smiles and thinks for a few seconds before answering.

"Anyone who doesn't think about changing jobs is lying," he says.

“I got a job offer within the company every seven to eight years.

I didn't have to think long about it." The new assignments always had their appeal and were a challenge.

"But I was also lucky enough to be there at the right time." Certainly not everything was always "peace, joy, pancakes".

There have also been strenuous phases.

and of course the "cook" went wrong sometimes.

"We've already burned something," Dudek chats out of the box.

The mass in the reactor was really thick and partly like rubber.

She had to be cut out of the cauldron with a knife.

14 days one was busy with it.

"That happens, that's chemistry."

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The family man estimates that he has trained at least 30 apprentices over the past decades.

"And almost all of them were taken over afterwards," says Klaus Dudek.

Requirements that an apprentice should have are very basic things for the teacher.

"That may sound conservative," he says.

"But honesty and genuine interest are among the most important."

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Source: merkur

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