Diving at Sparkasse Herford: Gerhold surprisingly leaves the post!

Diving at Sparkasse Herford: Gerhold surprisingly leaves the post!

Enger, Deutschland - This week an unexpected change was emerging from the Sparkasse Herford. The deputy chairman Thorsten Gerhold will leave the Sparkasse after he has not accepted a contract offered to him. According to information that the Westfalen-leaf was under discussion with a one-year trial period. Gerhold was dissatisfied with these conditions. District Administrator Jürgen Müller said that Gerhold was released until the official end of his contract term on June 30, 2025 and that the board of directors has already commissioned a personnel consultancy to find a suitable successor for the vacant board member Horst Prüßmeier, who will retire in June.

succession plan and new projects

parallel to the developments at Sparkasse, the Kreisheimatverein A new community project. Under the title "Selling Democracy", the project aims to raise awareness of democracy. In collaboration with the Bethel theater workshop and the nasty open, theater scenes are to be developed that remind people of the values ​​and the stability of democracy, which was rebuilt after the Second World War. The first information evening and workshop will take place on January 27, 2025 in the Widukind Museum.

This initiative is created in a moving social context in which many people feel unsafe and want to become active. The district home association invites all citizens to participate in this project and together to set an example for democracy. The project is generously supported by the Sparkasse Herford Foundation and shows the connection between the support of local culture and the commitment to democratic values ​​in society.