Naming ceremony in the boarding house
On November 13, 2012, a ceremony to celebrate the naming of the small hall of the binational boarding house of Friedrich Schiller Gymnasium took place. Numerous personalities from the political and cultural sectors accepted the invitation.
Among others, 1st Vice-president of the Saxon Parliament, Ms. A. Dombois, Consul General of the Czech Republic, Ms. J. Krejcikova, the representative of the Saxon Parliament, Mr. O. Wehner, head mayor of the town of Pirna, Mr. P. Hanke, former head mayor of the town of Pirna, Mr. H.-P. Bohrig, Dr. R. Streubel from the State Ministry of Education, Ms. Görke, representing the city council of Pirna and the Chairman of the Canaletto Forum Pirna, Mr. Th. Hahn could be welcomed.
The presence of Mr. Georgi was a very special pleasure and honor, and he was welcomed with a particularly warm applause.
Lord Mayor Hanke and School Principal, Mr. B. Wenzel named the small hall ‘Ute Georgi Hall’. Ute Georgi was an outstanding personality who still remains alive in our memory for her human warmth, her competence, her great political and social commitment, her friendliness and her sheer inexhaustible energy.
Ute Georgi
February 23,1943 - July 15, 2010
Ute Georgi graduated from high school in Dresden. From 1964 through 1970, she worked as a freelance translator.
From 1972 through 1976, Ms. Georgi was employed as a research assistant. She worked as an interpreter from 1976 to 1990. She attained the degree of a language mediator passing extern state examinations at the University of Leipzig in 1974 and 1982. In 1990, she completed her postgraduate studies in the field of professional school education at the University of Leipzig.
Ms. Georgi was elected community representative in 1974 and became a councilor in 1986. In 1985, she became a member of the LDPD and she joined the FDP in 1990. In the same year she became mayor of Malschendorf. From February to August 1990, she was a member of the FDP party executive and after that also represented the presidium. She was the vice chairwoman of the association of liberal local politicians. In Saxony’s state elections in 1990, she was elected member of parliament for the FDP and worked in the Committee of Education, Youth and Sport and the Committee of Social Affairs, Health Care, Family and Women. She was the parliamentary executive secretary of her faction.
After the state election in 1994, she stepped down as a member of parliament because the FDP failed to clear the five per cent hurdle. As a consequence, she also resigned from her position as an FDP executive.
She held the office of mayor leading the Department of Education, Youth, Culture and Social Affairs in Pirna from 1994 to 2001.
Ute Georgi was also a member of the board of trustees of the Saxon State Agency for Political Education.
She was the vice president and president of the association of former members of parliament ‘Vereinigung ehemaliger Mitglieder des Sächsischen Landtages e.V.’, which was founded in 1994. On June 13, 2009, she was awarded the Gold Medal of the Saxon Constitution for her “political work and her and wide social commitment” by Erich Iltgen, President of the state parliament.
Ute Georgi was the chairwoman of the Canaletto Forum Pirna.
Her last place of residence was Dresden.