Ruth Stallbaum and Gabriele Stief began their careers together at the city administration on August 1, 1977. Ruth Stallbaum began her training as an office assistant and, after passing her exams, was assigned to the treasury department. This area became her life's work and she was finally appointed deputy treasurer at the beginning of 2008. Gabriele Stief initially trained as an administrative assistant and then switched to a career as a civil servant. She also worked for almost twenty years in the finance department of the treasurer's office before moving to building management at the beginning of 2001. In mid-2009, she was again transferred to the treasury department, where she was appointed treasurer of the city treasury. Since then, the two colleagues have been jointly responsible for managing the cash transactions of the Idar-Oberstein municipal administration and have carried out this task competently and reliably.
"There are not many colleagues who have been with us for so long and, above all, who have gone down this path together," emphasized Lord Mayor Frühauf. He paid tribute to the achievements of the two treasurers and thanked them for their work over the decades.
"They were already there when I started," explained Wolfgang Petry, Head Clerk. And he himself celebrated his 40th anniversary of service some time ago. He thanked the two soon-to-be retirees for their consistently good cooperation and wished them good health in the future. City Treasurer Carsten Stützel emphasized Stief and Stallbaum's enormous knowledge but also their human interaction. "I hold them both in high esteem and of course their departure will create a vacuum. Because the enormous experience of both of them is not so easy to replace." Sven Fillmann, representing the Staff Council and himself an employee of the City Treasurer's Office, also paid tribute to the work of the two colleagues before the two were presented with a few farewell gifts.
"We came together and now we're going together," explained Ruth Stallbaum and Gabriele Stief. In 1977, they had started training with the city administration with a total of six people, and they are both still left. "We enjoyed working at the city treasury, but now it's time to let the younger ones in." Nevertheless, they left with a smile on their faces, but also with tears in their eyes, because they would certainly miss the contact with their colleagues, they both admitted.