Posted By
Fonsis
on 2020-12-01
01:20:55
 |  Re: Very sad news: we mourn the passing...
This is so sad! 
I really appreciated Erichs hard work on all the Plus/4 Club Info issues...
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Here is an article online about Erichs life as being a teacher and his work as an advocate for nature, the environment and social issues.
(german): https://www.bo.de/lokales/achern-oberkirch/erich-laber-fuersprecher-fuer-natur-umwelt-und-soziales
(english translation):
Erich Laber: advocate for nature, the environment and social issues
October 16, 2020
Waldulm has lost a committed teacher and local council, Erich Laber died on October 1st at the age of 68. He was an educator with heart and soul and a local politician with heart and mind.
For almost 30 years, from 1983 to 2011, he taught at the Antonius School in Oberachern, the last years of his professional life he was a teacher at the Black Forest School in Appenweier from 2011 to 2015. He knew how to inspire his students and taught them to look carefully. This is especially true when it comes to the importance and worthiness of life and nature.
As an MNT teacher, he recently took part with his students in the German Hiking Association's school hiking competition, hiked several times with his fifth grade in the Appenweir forest and set up a forest classroom with a colleague and her fifth.
Focus on chemistry
Chemistry was his great passion. At the Antonius School in Oberachern he played a key role in equipping the school in chemistry, and wrote the textbook "Stations of chemistry - imparting specialist knowledge appropriate to age" for chemistry lessons in grades 7 to 8. He recently said at the event “Expedition N - Sustainability in Baden-Württemberg” at the Black Forest School: “It is important that mankind comes up with something. In 2050 there could be 200 million climate refugees, over three quarters of the fishing grounds are exhausted or in critical condition, the species are dying faster. 40 percent of the arable land is damaged and 20 percent of the world's population use 80 percent of the resources. "
At IG Funkmast
So it is not surprising that as a local councilor in Kappelrodeck and as a local councilor in Waldulm, he was also repeatedly an advocate for nature, the environment and social issues. In Kappelrodeck he worked for the SPD in the local council, in the Waldulm local council from 2009 to 2019. He was involved in the IG Funkmast Ortenau and warned of the risks of the completely unregulated use of mobile phone radiation. The fact that a replacement spawning area for toads is now being set up between Waldulm and Oberachern, he would certainly have enjoyed it, because he urged the council several times.
Erich Laber had a clear opinion, always well founded from a technical point of view and without any self-interest or personal profiling. His engagement has consistently been of good intent and driven by the good of the community and nature.
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