The city of Schongau awards Barbara Karg the golden ring of honor - 26 years on the city council

Created: 12/16/2022, 10:00 am

By: Elke Robert

Happy about the award with the golden ring of honor: Barbara Karg sat for 26 years as a city councilor for the Schongau SPD at the council table.

Working for seniors is close to her heart © Herold

Warm applause, many congratulations and many thanks for the many years of commitment now reached Barbara Karg.

The former SPD city councilor received the city's golden ring of honor for her 26-year service.

The Schongauer had withdrawn for health reasons.

Schongau – Mayor Falk Sluyterman paid tribute to Barbara Karg's 26-year service as city councilor of the SPD parliamentary group.

At the end of the Christmas session of the city council, the head of the Schongau city hall presented the city's golden ring of honor to the woman from Schongau, who sat at the council table in the summer from 1996 to this year - for more than four electoral periods.

“You have been given responsibility, you have accepted it.

It's always been a pleasure working with you," said Sluyterman.

Barbara Karg thanks "for the honor and the good cooperation"

"I thank you for this honor and for the good cooperation." Barbara Karg publicly reacted to the mayor's speech with a few short words.

It was also a pleasure for her, "but it was also sometimes exhausting".

Unfortunately, reality slowed her down, now she has to think about herself.

"I would have liked to have continued," Karg concluded.

And then, to the great laughter of the former city council colleagues, he limited himself humorously: "But 26 years are actually enough."

The news that Barbara Karg would give up her position as SPD city councilor was announced in the middle of this year.

A serious illness forced her to completely rethink her own everyday life, to devote her time to herself, "to be a bit more selfish", as she describes it in an interview with the local newspaper.

The long-standing AWO local chairman decided to continue her work at Arbeiterwohlfahrt, "that's the only job I've kept because it's so important to me," says Karg.

She has been the chair for eight years, before that she had been the deputy chair for a long time.

"The beginning was exhausting"

And how does the woman from Schongau look back on her time as city councilor?

"Especially the early days were exhausting," she recalls back to 1996, the start of the body under the newly elected party colleague Friedrich Zeller, who died at the end of September.

"The CSU had lost and they couldn't cope with that," many city council colleagues made life difficult for Zeller.

"It wasn't easy, and that's not how I imagined my job as a city councilor at the time, but that's not what you get elected for."

And there have been many other times too.

Karg remembers everything to do with the family pool in Plantsch as particularly beautiful.

"That's still very positive today." She always felt very close to the city's senior citizens - she was the contact person for senior citizens and was also active in the support association for the Heiliggeist nursing home.

"That fitted well."

Ring of honor wearer wishes a way or a road to Barbara Juchacz

What the ring of honor wearer still wishes from the city for the future is that there is still a place somewhere to pay tribute to Barbara Juchacz, the founder of the AWO.

“She was just a very committed woman, the first woman to give a speech in the Reichstag;

She deserves to be remembered,” says Karg.

The suggestion by the woman from Schongau to name the square at the Schongau coin building after the Potsdam SPD MP triggered many discussions and a citizen survey in 2019. Today the square is called “At the Fronveste” – “But I can live with that,” says Karg .

She is very happy about the award with the golden ring of honor - "this is a recognition for the many years".

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