Wilhelm von Gottberg
William of God Berg ( born March 30, 1940 in Woopen, County Bartenstein, East Prussia ) is a former German police officer and mayor ( CDU). He was 1992-2010 National Chairman of the Country Team East Prussia and since 1992 Vice- President of the Federation of displaced persons.
Life
He was born in 1940 as the son of the landowner Henry of God Berg and his wife Gertrud, born Baroness von der Goltz, on the Good Great Klitten in the district of Königsberg. William of God Mountain was expelled along with his family after the end of World War II from the former East Prussia. They first fled by ship from Gdynia to Gdansk Bay to Swinoujscie and further into the Lüchow- Dannenberg in Lower Saxony.
He graduated from an agricultural and technical training and was then nine years police officer. During this time he acquired part-time vocational diploma and was then six years in a managerial position in the security area of an industrial company operates. Meanwhile, he also graduated from part-time studying mathematics and history for the teaching profession. After an additional psychological studies taught by God Berg from 1977 state and constitutional law and psychology at a technical school of the Federal Border Police ( BGS ).
From God Mountain is married since 1972 and father of six children.
Public offices
From God 's Mountain since November 1991 and Mayor of Schnega owned by the district council of Lüchow -Dannenberg on. Since 1983, he serves on the board of the National Group of Lower Saxony Landsmannschaft East Prussia (LO ), the country chairman in 1987. In 1990 he was elected Deputy Speaker. From November 1992 to November 2010 Gottsberg speaker was ( national chairman ) of the LO. From God Mountain is also since 1992 Vice- President of the Federation of displaced persons ( BdV ) and since 1994 Chairman of the Board of the East Prussian Cultural Foundation. Since 1995 he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cultural Foundation of the German expellees. He is also President of the General Assembly, which was founded in Trieste 1 December 2007 the European Union of refugees and displaced persons ( EUEEP ). In the summer of 2011, he was provisionally editor in chief of the Prussian Allgemeine Zeitung. 2011 By God Berg stepped out after many years of membership of the CDU. 2013 he joined the alternative for Germany and was up to his deselection assessors, Regional Executive Lower Saxony.
Positions
William of God Mountain wants a "return to our homeland Prussia ", so that human rights can be realized in the home for the Germans and their descendants. On the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the country team Prussia in July 1998, he said in the Schöneberg Town Hall: "We have been waiting for an official request for forgiveness through Poland, the Czech Republic and Russia for the genocidal crimes of expulsion. "
According to the Federal Government ( formerly Königsberg ) sat down by God Mountain in 1995 vehemently for the activities of the extreme right-wing publisher Dietmar Munier in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad a.
In 2001, he wrote critical of the displaced persons problem: " The newly settled in East Prussia after the flight and expulsion of German residents knew nothing about the cultural value of the found structures. "
Litigation
In 2005 went from Gottsberg legal action against the newspaper New Germany before, as these had claimed in an article that he had the force as anti-Semitic speech by the Member of Parliament Martin Hohmann publicly defended. The newspaper relied on their right to free expression. The injunction was dismissed.
Awards
In 2005, the country team East Prussia from God Berg gave their highest award, the Prussians shield.