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HEINZGLAS KLEINTETTAU
Border Memorial
In Kleintettau - directly on the Thuringia Bavarian border
- a neighborhood in retrospect and prospect
In the Franconian Academy
Castle Schney nearby Lichtenfels
representatives from ten regional
organizations of BVEA came together
for Labor Day 2009. In connection
with the topic “20 Years Border
Opening: Church Commitment
in the Working World in East and
West“ AfA (Action Committees for
Employee questions) Bavaria and
AfA Thuringia had organised and
invited well-known experts for an
exciting company tour.
Since World War II, protestant
employees have been getting
involved with these associations and
organisations. Even if it is not always
easy, they connect together the
sometimes astranged areas of life: the
“Church“ and the “Working world“.
They bring Christian ideas into the
everyday working life. They confront
economic decisions with socialethical
considerations. They stand up
for the “human factor” in the working
world, promote democracy and codetermination
in companies.
Since 1989, this has been done
also in five East German states.
Volunteers and employees, pastors
and social clerks, work councils and
parishioners, bishops and synods
became active in connecting the
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church and the working world. Both
„Action Committees for Employee
questions“ (AfA) in Bavaria and
Thuringia have continued this work
in spite of the difficult financial and
organizational conditions.
Apart from the honor distinction
of the fellow combatants from the
beginning there were visits to the
memorials for the victims of the
German separation at Spechtsbrunn
and Tettau and the memorial border
chapel at Burggrub and Heinersdorf
(seen photo above).
The factory tour at HEINZ-GLAS
in Piesau reminded us of the purpose
of industrial jobs. The stories of
four directly involved witnesses to
historical event offered inspiring
views of the effects of the border
opening. A positive reinforcement
for the future came from two
representatives of the employment
agency Saxonia-Anhalt/Thuringia,
who were very impressed by this
event.
Summary Rundschau Ev. Protestant
Employees December 3/2009
At this event Carl-August Heinz
was honored for his outstanding
commitment!
Dear AfA friends, dear Guests!
We have the pleasure today to grant
the honor distinction award to an
individual, and we are happy to do
so, because we are honoring a man
who has actively helped since 1989
to shape the German reunification.
We honor Carl-August Heinz
from Tettau. It is unusual that an
entrepreneur is honored on a labor
day. Though in 1990, it was not
all entrepreneurs who bought East
German competition or moved
production over the border to lowwage
countries. There were also
entrepreneurs who seriously tried to
bring together these two countries
with two different economic systems
to one social market economy.
Therefore we are honoring you, Mr.
Heinz, and we are thanking you
for your long lasting commitment
as a social entrepreneur and a fair
employees’ partner.
I wish that our honored guest’s
example will encourage us all and
that this commitment will go on
fighting for a better world where
the “small people” are the most
important. Our Bible is full of
sayings that God will be then on our
side.
Dr. H-G Koch
Head of KDA Bavaria i. R.