He was a tireless man who left a big gap: the municipality of Kirchseeon mourns the local historian Elmar Kramer, who has now passed away at the age of 87. For many years, together with his wife Dagmar Kramer, he managed the local history museum on the first floor above the ATSV hall, but also shared his knowledge of the past with others in writing and verbally. Because things should not be forgotten, that was his credo. The museum guides the visitor through the life of the people in the area of today’s market town of Kirchseeon, from the finds of the Bronze Age to Celts and Romans to railway construction in the 19th century and everyday life in the 20th century. To the very end, Kramer gave lectures that were both knowledgeable and pointed, and he also spoke about his personal experiences in World War II: As a young boy, he had lost his brother at the front, his parents’ house had been destroyed and looted, which is why the family fled to his grandparents in Lower Bavaria had to.
Elmar Kramer was born in Freising in 1935 and came to Kirchseeon in 1981 via a number of detours. He wrote down what he experienced, even as a small boy, and thus documented the atrocities of the Nazi regime, among other things. But even at school, Kramer stood out with a pronounced fondness for formulating: his essays were of such a nature that classmates often asked him to read them aloud. “Pencils are his life,” Dagmar Kramer once said about her husband. Professionally, Elmar Kramer was extremely diverse: he worked as a lawyer, for a long time at the ADAC, as a young man also as a sports journalist and later as an author, from non-fiction to prose to aphorisms. “You have to develop further, and apply what you’ve learned over and over again,” the Kirchseeon native tries to explain his versatility. Don’t stand still, that was Elmar Kramer’s motto. Now he has gone his last way.
The funeral service will take place this Saturday, February 26, at 10 a.m., followed by the burial in the forest cemetery in Kirchseeon.