Heavyweight of Herrschinger local politics: great sadness for Wolfgang Schief

Created: 2022-12-31Updated: 2022-12-31 09:42

By: Andrea Graepel

Wolfgang Schief was a heavyweight in local politics.

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The former SPD municipal councilor Wolfgang Schief (90) is dead. "We will miss his commitment to more justice very much," says a companion.

Herrsching

– His speeches in the Herrsching municipal council meetings were often the icing on the cake for the reporters.

Until recently, Wolfgang Schief was known as a charming, argumentative fellow citizen.

He died before Christmas at the age of 90.

His wife Christel speaks to the heart of many of the social democrat's friends and companions when she says that one always had the impression that Wolfgang Schief was immortal.

As active and witty as he was into old age.

At the age of well over 80, he still undertook motorcycle trips to Turkey and to Lesbos, the Greek favorite island of the Schiefs.

Herrsching: former SPD councilor Wolfgang Schief died at the age of 90

He was a heavyweight in local politics in Herrsching, representing the SPD from 1984 to 1990 and again from 1996 to 2008 in the municipal council.

He cared for the topic of “barrier-free Kurparkschlösschen” like a baby to the end and scolded passionately when new arguments spoke against it.

At the age of 87 he turned his back on his local club in Herrsching and moved to Seefeld.

In between, he considered returning, "but then he didn't do it anymore," says his wife Christel.

Nevertheless, he made applications and never tired of writing letters to the editor.

Wolfgang and Christel Schief came to Ammersee from Stuttgart in 1958.

Wrongly taught insurance salesmen in Munich.

In 1972 they joined the SPD to support Willi Brandt in the federal election campaign at the time.

When their neighbor at the time, Rudolf Hanauer, hung CSU posters on the fence opposite, the Schiefs responded with Brandt's posters.

This kind of humor has characterized Schief over the years.

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Wolfgang Schief died - "All his life he saw himself as an advocate for the socially disadvantaged"

"All his life he saw himself as an advocate for the socially disadvantaged," says Werner Odemer, chairman of the Herrschinger SPD local association and long-time companion.

They didn't always agree, but they were always friendly.

"We will miss his commitment to more justice very much," writes Odemer in an obituary.

Likewise his persistence.

A symbol of this may be the small rubbish bin on the fence of the Schiefs, which is still hanging there and being emptied.

Again and again, Schief had asked for a rubbish bin for Rudolf-Hanauer-Strasse because walkers disposed of their sundaes and other rubbish in his garden.

Until he finally hung up a bucket himself.

This is decades ago.

The funeral service for Wolfgang Schief will take place next Monday, January 2, from 1:30 p.m. in the Church of the Redeemer in Herrsching.  

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