Photo: Herbert Kriener
Helga Kuttenkeuler, née Schmitt, looks back on her previous life with pride, joy and satisfaction, even if it was not always easy. This Saturday, April 25, the wife of the former CSU city councilor and civil engineering officer Winfried Kuttenkeuler is celebrating her 80th birthday in her apartment in Pleich.
Born in Würzburg, she initially lived in the Frauenland region until her family moved to a home in the flourishing district of Keesburg. Here she met her husband 66 years ago when they jumped over the bonfire together at solstice.
She married him in 1967 after completing his apprenticeship as a carpenter and then studying civil engineering in Aachen and Munich. Together they raised three children who studied, married and gave them nine grandchildren. The oldest is already a doctor at the age of 25.
Always socially committed
When her youngest child Simon came to school in 1979, Helga Kuttenkeuler, who had worked as a nanny, doctor’s assistant and office worker, wanted to realize herself again. Because it was not so easy to find a job, she gradually took four foster children into the family and raised them. Her husband, who turned 80 in the last year, always kept her back unobtrusively and quietly free in his diverse and often exhausting activities.
The resolute woman had experienced a dark hour in 1987, when during a nightly construction inspection of her new house in Sanderau she fell from the attic one floor below and contracted a fourfold pool break. So she then directed the telephone from the hospital to the completion of what was then her own home.
The jubilee had been socially involved since she was young. For many years, until she got married and temporarily moved out of Würzburg, she worked as a volunteer on Sundays in the children’s hospital on Mönchberg. Later she was a volunteer in the warming room for ten years. Afterwards she took over the childcare during guided tours in the cathedral museum.
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