Landsberg It is news that has shaken Landsberg: Axel Flörke is dead. The long-time city councilor and many volunteers died completely unexpectedly at the age of only 68.
Axel Flörke had been on the city council since 1991. Coming from the Greens, he switched to the UBV because their political independence suited him best.
"He wanted to do factual politics for the municipality," says his longtime political companion Hans-Jürgen Schulmeister.
He got to know and appreciate Flörke in 1987 as a neighbor in the old town.
For years both were on the board of the UBV, which they eventually left together to found the Landsberger Mitte.
For this group, too, Flörke's death was "a deep blow," says Schulmeister.
"We are losing a very important political figure who lived for culture."
Axel Flörke and culture – they belonged together.
The diverse commitment of the native Berliner in this area is hardly manageable.
He was cultural mayor and most recently cultural advisor.
He fought for the preservation of the old town and monument protection - most recently in the citizens' initiative "Save the Castle Hill".
Whether in the town hall concerts association or in the Friends of the Municipal Museums, as chairman of the Lech-Ammersee artists' guild or as an organizer of concerts and exhibitions - it was always a matter close to his heart to bring people closer to the beauty of art and music.
Axel Flörke always did more than he had to.
As a teacher of geography and economics at the Ignaz-Kögler-Gymnasium, he supported the founding of student companies that are still successful on the market today.
After his retirement he worked as a professional coach, seminar leader, moderator, city guide and funeral speaker.
The communication expert even offered etiquette courses because he knew that good manners can be a key to private and professional success.
"Axel Flörke was a highly sensitive and sensitive person," says Sigrid Knollmüller, who worked with the deceased in the historical association, among other things.
Privately, he sometimes drove to Italy for extraordinary opera or ballet premieres or traveled to exhibitions in Holland.
Most recently, Flörke lived in an apartment in Hinteranger - in the heart of his beloved Landsberg old town.
Just a few days before his death, he was still doing voluntary work.
How great the loss for Landsberg's cultural life will be now that Axel Flörke is no longer there - that cannot yet be measured in times of deepest sadness.
