Honours in the choir association Westerwald
Definition in the choir association Westerwald for the future approach:
Carrying out honors of well-deserved singers for many years of active singing and board work
1. In the area of responsibility of the choir association Westerwald, the honors of deserving singers are generally carried out within the framework of joint honors at group level. These joint honours are organised by the choir groups on their own responsibility and carried out in a dignified framework.
2. The speaker of the choir association Westerwald / members of the executive board and the group executives will hold a joint award once a year in each choir group. These honors are carried out in a dignified setting by the speaker of the choir association / members of the executive board in cooperation with the group board.
Exception: In the case of a real association anniversary (founding anniversary 25; 50; 75; 100, etc.) the honors of the deserving singers of the Jubilee Association can be carried out as individual honors within the framework of the festive event.
3. If a singer/singer or an association refuses the procedure of joint honour listed under point 1, the honour documents (certificate, needle or brooch) will be sent to the association concerned by the district board with a corresponding letter. There is no separate honorary action.
4. If, for reasons of illness or other valid reasons of impediment, it is not possible for the honorary person to participate in the joint honour, the singer will be named in the joint honour.
The handover of the certificate of honour/needle/brooch will then be clarified individually by the respective group board (possibly individual instruction by the group board or a person designated by it) or carried out as part of the next joint award.
5. Deviations from the above procedure of a joint award at group level are to be requested by the group board to the board of directors of the choir band Westerwald, which advises on them and brings about a decision.
Application for Honours
Regulations on honours in the choir association Rhineland-Palatinate
Here you will find the most important points listed once again:
Each association applies for its upcoming with the corresponding forms
1. Personal honors are by the member choirs at the beginning of the year, or in time (at least 8 weeks before the date of honour) apply exclusively online via IntelliVerband. The necessary access data are available to every member association/organization. (Can be requested from the CVRLP office in case of loss).
2. In exceptional cases, the choir association Westerwald can take over this for you. Then use the PDF forms provided below.
3. Applications for club/choir ceremonies as well as the honouring of choir conductors must be submitted exclusively via the corresponding form, which must be completed and sent to the choir association Westerwald.
Contact person: Timo Krämer, Florheckstr. 18, 56414 Obererbach or by e-mail to t.kraemer@cv-ww.de.
Honorary plaque of the choir association Westerwald
‘Rhineland-Palatinate Honorary Needle – in recognition of many years of volunteering in the service of the community“
on 07.05. In 2018 on behalf of the Prime Minister of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer, awarded by Mr. Landrat Achim Schwickert:
Mr Mario Siry, Großholbach.
‘Needle of honour of the Land of Rhineland-Palatinate – in recognition of many years of volunteering in the service of the Community’
on 22 March 2017 on behalf of the Minister-President of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer, by Landrat Achim Schwickert:
Mr Raimund Schäfer, Ruppach-Goldhausen.
‘Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit the Federal Republic of Germany’
on 03. Nov. Awarded in 1980 by Dr. Norbert Heinen on behalf of the Federal President Dr. Karl Carstens:
Mr Willi Fries, Helferskirchen.
To the following board members of the choir association Unterwesterwald, the
‘Needle of Honour for Special Merits in Choral Singing of the Rhineland-Palatinate Choral Association’ lent
1974 Werner Fries
1977 Siegfried Friedrich
1981 Willi Fries
1985 by Helmut Müller
1986 Josef Kaspari
1992 Karl-Heinz Gelhard
1996 Klemens Haberstock
2002 Raimund Schäfer
2007 by Herbert Malm
2008 Hermann-Josef Steinebach
2013 by Franz Hindsches
2014 Alfred Labonte
2017 by Mario Siry
2018 Monika Klöckner
2018 Lothar Riebel
On 17.03.2018, in recognition of the special services for media and public relations in the choir association Rhineland-Palatinate, the
"PRO MEDIA PRIZE" to Mr Raimund Schäfer, Ruppach-Goldhausen
lent
Pin of Honour of the Land Rhineland-Palatinate - Mario Siry
The choir association Westerwald congratulates its choir leader Mario Siry on the award with the honorary needle of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, exhibited by Prime Minister Malu Dreyer.
Mario Siry can be proud of his decades of work in the Westerwälder Chorwesen. Since 1994 he has headed the MGV Hoffnung Heiligenroth, since 1995 the MGV Eintracht Leuterod and Liederkranz Berrod b. W and since the following years a whole series of other choirs from the region. He has been conducting the Rhineland-Palatinate Sunday Choir since 2013.
He has been a district choirmaster since 2005, and since that time he has also worked as a seminar director and more for the choir association at county and state level. In 2011 he founded the Chorjugend in the Chorverband Rheinland-Pfalz and has been its chairman ever since.
District Administrator Schwickert stated in his phonetic date: ‘You moved people!’ and highlighted his broad commitment to choral singing. Siry currently leads eleven choirs, and has been committed to supervising and developing the choirs for many years since he began conducting the choirs in 1994. This professional support is a challenging task. Schwickert compared the activity of the choirmaster with the sporting task of an exercise director. ‘You have to deal with the individual characters, and that can cost nerves here and there – not an easy task!’ Many rehearsals are necessary for success, and the simple coordination of appointments is not easy. Siry has this success, although the environment for the choirs has changed a bit in the past years and decades. In enumerating the various memberships and offices, Schwickert also highlighted the patience of Siry's wife. Because family life is not insignificantly time-limited by the many honorary positions.
Rhineland-Palatinate Honorary Needle - Raimund Schäfer
The choir association Westerwald congratulates its treasurer and press officer Raimund Schäfer on the award with the honorary needle of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, issued by Prime Minister Malu Dreyer.
In appreciation and gratitude of his extensive work in the choir association Westerwald and the state bodies, the board has used itself for the application.
Raimund Schäfer has accompanied the office of treasurer in the choir association Unterwesterwald since 1989 and since the merger of the Westerwald district associations in 2015 to form the choir association Westerwald.
Raimund was already acting press officer from 1993-94, in addition to his board position as treasurer of our choir association and has held the office since 2004 until today. He has created our homepage and maintains it very intensively, in addition, he regularly creates our newsletters and has created all the flyers of our choir association.
In recognition of his merits in the work of the board of directors of the choir association Unterwesterwald, he was awarded the honorary needle of the choir association Rhineland-Palatinate in 2002.
In addition, he has been on the Board of Directors of Region 1 as a cashier since 2012 and its Chairman since 2015. In the overall presidium of the choir association Rhineland-Palatinate, he played a major role in the development of the new statutes and developed a guiding principle for the association.
Raimund Schäfer not only does a great deal of management and public relations work, but is also our creative source of ideas.
In addition, Raimund Schäfer has participated in the municipal council and the committees of the local community and organizes the Christmas market.
Also in sport, after his active activity in his football club TuS Ahrbach, he acts similarly intensively as managing director, trains young people, also looks after the homepage there, ‘is’ the editorial staff of the club newspaper and organiser and tournament leader of the annual Ahrbach Cup.
On 15 January 2015, the two district choir associations Oberwesterwald and Unterwesterwald were merged into the choir association Westerwald.
1. Chair - Spokesperson of the Association’s Management since 2021
| 1961 – 1970 | Peter Ramb + |
| 1970 – 2001 | Willi Fries |
| 2001 – 2014 | Hermann-Josef Steinebach |
| 2015 – 2026 | Alfred Labonte |
| 2026 | Dr. Tanja Machalet |
District Choir Leader – since 2021: Musical direction
| 1954 – 1966 | Wilhelm Kirberger + |
| 1967 – 1984 | Rudolf Gelhard |
| 1985 – 2005 | Hubertus Weimer + |
| 2005 | Mario Siry (from 2015 in the choir association Westerwald) |
| Mario Siry: since 2015 additional choirmaster of Region 1 in the choir association Rhineland-Palatinate |
2. Chair - Deputy Spokesperson of the Verbandsleitun since 2021g
| 1961 – 1977 | Paul Tisson + |
| 1978 – 1987 | Josef Weiand + |
| 1988 – 1994 | Werner Meuer + |
| 1995 – 2014 | the Group Presidents |
| 2015 – 2016 | Dieter Orthey in the choir association Westerwald |
| 2016 – 2024 | Rüdiger Herling |
District Treasurer – financial management since 2021
| 1962 – 1967 | Karl Herborn + |
| 1968 – 1970 | Paul-Günter Gerharz |
| 1971 – 1975 | Karl-Heinz Werner |
| 1976 – 1985 | Helmut Müller |
| 1986 – 1988 | Detlef Becker |
| 1989 | Raimund Schäfer (from 2015 in the choir association Westerwald) |
| Raimund Schäfer: since 2012 additional treasurer and since 2015 chairman of Region 1 in the choir association Rhineland-Palatinate |
District Managing Director – Management since 2021
| 1967 – 1988 | Werner Fries |
| 1989 – 1994 | Hugo Fries |
| 1995 – 2001 | Herbert Malm |
| 2001 – 2014 | Franz Hindsches |
| 2015 | Lothar Riebel in the choir association Westerwald |
District Youth Officer – support for children's choirs and young talents since 2021
| 1986 – 1987 | Michael Malm |
| 1987 – 1992 | Werner Meuer + |
| 1993 – 1994 | Peter Stockschläder |
| 1995 – 1998 | Ute Lingerhand |
| 1998 – 2007 | Walter Frink |
| 2007 – 2008 | Andreas Weidenfeller |
| 2008 – 2010 | Mario Siry |
| 2010 – 2018 | Jessica Burggraf (from 2015 in the choir association Westerwald) |
| 2018 – 2021 | vacant |
| 2021 | Katharina Kühn and Melanie Mingebach |
| 2012 | Timo Krämer (dr. Managing director) |
| since 2021 Training, association and event management |
Active Counsellor
| 1986 – 1994 | Inge Werner |
| 1995 – 2000 | Walburga Lingerhand |
| 2007 – 2018 | Heide Rupp (from 2015 in the choir association Westerwald) |
| 2018 – 2021 | Dorothe Hoffmann |
District Press Officer – Press and Public Relations since 2021
| 1964 – 1996 | Siegfried Friedrich + |
| 1993 – 1994 | Raimund Schäfer (temporary) |
| 1995 – 1996 | Hermann Steinebach (temporary) |
| 1997 – 2001 | Hermann Steinebach |
| 2001 – 2004 | Wólfgang Rudolph |
| 2004 – 2021 | Raimund Schäfer (from 2015 Raimund Schäfer acting in the choir association Westerwald) |
| 2021 | Raimund Schäfer, Oliver Schmidt |
stellv. District Choir Leader
| 1961 – 1967 | Alfred Wallroth (+) |
| 1968 – 1979 | Wilhelm Kirberger (+) |
| 1980 – 2005 | Ulrich Wallroth |
| 2011 – 2014 | Master of Tristan |
| 2015 – 2016 | Lieselene Schlaug-Pfeiffer (in the choir association Westerwald) |
| 2016 – 2018 | Nadine Quirmbach |
District Honorary Officer
| 2015 – 2021 | Hermann-Josef Steinebach |
Group president Singing Group I – Singing Group West – from 2021 Choir Group West
| 1964 – 1980 | Berni Hölzgen (+) |
| 1981 – 1990 | Manfred Gerz |
| 1991 – 1992 | Edgar Trupp |
| 1992 – 1993 | Gerhard Lange |
| 1994 – 2000 | Norbert Görg |
| 2000 – 2001 | Hermann-Josef Steinebach |
| 2005 – 2008 | Günter Allef |
| 2008 – | changing group choirs |
| 2010 – 2016 | Andreas Weidenfellder |
| 2016 – 2024 | Bernd Kaulbach (from 2021 Chorgruppe West) |
In 2024, the choir group West was dissolved at the Association Day of the Westerwald Choir Association in Gackenbach – the choirs of the former choir group West would be distributed among the choir groups North, Middle and South.
Group president Singing Group II – Singing Group South – from 2021 Choir Group South
| 1969 – 1980 | Wolfgang Jäger |
| 1981 – 1982 | Werner Meuer (+) |
| 1983 – 2000 | Klemens Haberstock (+) |
| 2000 | Alfred Labonte (from 2021 - Singer Group South) |
Group president Singing Group III – Singing Group East – from 2021 Choir Group East, from 2024 Choir Group Mitte
| 1970 – 1998 | Josef Kaspari + |
| 1998 – 2007 | Herbert Malm |
| 2007 – 2010 | Hans-Joachim Bartsch |
| 2010 – 2015 | Guido Diel, Franz Hommrich, Richard Müller (from 2010 - Singer Group East) |
| 2015 – 2017 | Richard Müller, Karsten Opper, Timo Krämer, Karla Ternes |
| 2017 - 2025 | Karsten Opper, Timo Krämer, Karla Ternes, Gabi Bendel, Marco Ruster |
| 2025 | Paul Häusinger, Dr. Andre Tüncher, Bernd Kaulbach |
Group president Singing Group IV
| 1966 – 1973 | Klaus Lenners |
| 1973 – 1998 | Karl-Heinz Gelhard (+) |
| 1998 – 2010 | Hans-Georg Büllesbach |
| from 2010 integrated into the singer groups North and South |
Group president Singers' Group V
| 1962 – 1976 | Joachim Loppnow |
| 1977 – 1982 | Rudolf Schneider |
| 1982 – 2000 | Ernst-Hermann Weißenborn |
| 2000 – 2010 | Wolfgang Rudolph |
| from 2010 integrated into the vocal group Nord |
Group president Singers' Group North
| 2015 | Lothar Riebel |
Honorary members of the choir association Unterwesterwald/
Westerwald choir association
Honorary Chairman
Willi Fries (2001)
Hermann-Josef Steinebach (2022)
Alfred Labonte (2026)
Honorary choir conductor
Hubertus Weimer +
Honorary board members
Siegfried Friedrich +
Karl-Heinz Gelhard +
Klemens Haberstock +
Josef Kaspari +
Werner Meuer +
Alfred Wallroth +
Ernst-Hermann Weißenborn
If you have been able to participate in such a joyful way for a lifetime and participate in countless performances and even in old age have the grace to still be able to ‘have a voice’ and sing, then you cannot thank your Creator enough and only hope that he will give you a few more years of this happiness!
(Chairman of the district Fries on the occasion of an extraordinary honour)
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