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Winfried-Illo
Graff, First Deputy Chairman
Since
taking to voluntary retirement in 1996, Graff has been working
as a freelance journalist after having served as Director of the
Deutsche Welle Training Centre in Cologne for eighteen years.
He joined the Deutsche Welle after completing studies in philology,
philosophy and pedagogics, and "marched" through several
departments of the institution. He spent altogether four years
in Africa, Near East, Asia and Latin America as a lecturer, seminar
leader and consultant – one year long he worked at the Information
Ministry in Rwanda. While at the Deutsche Welle, Graff organised
hundreds of training projects in Germany and abroad on behalf
of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development,
thus making a significant contribution to building up independent
media. He also published the specialised journal 'Dialogue' and
a series of documentations and manuals related to radio in particular
and media in general.
In recognition of his distinguished services for the benefit of
international cooperation, Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker
decorated Winfried-Illo Graff with the the Federal Cross on Ribbon.
For 30 years he had been engaged in a multitude of activities:
as honorary head of the international circle of the Car-Duisberg-Gesellschaft
in Cologne, as chairman of the 'Gewerkschaft Kunst' and member
of the district committee of the German Confederation of Trade
Unions (DGB), as chairman of the arbitration panel of the Social
Democratic Party (SPD) in the sub-district Euskirchen, and as
an elected member of the council of the city of Mechernich/Eifel.
Graff is also a member of the executive committee of Local Agenda
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