Wilhelm Rombach
Wilhelm Rombach (born July 20, 1884 in Roetgen ; † September 18, 1973 in Aachen ) was a German politician (CDU), district president , mayor of Aachen and state secretary in the North Rhine-Westphalian interior ministry.
Life
Wilhelm Rombach had a doctorate in law and was an administrative clerk and joined the Center Party . After various positions at the Aachen Regional Court and the Jülich District Court, he then headed the Düren district as district administrator from 1920 to 1923 . From 1923 to 1928 he was the district president of the Aachen region . During the time of the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923, he was temporarily arrested for passive resistance and then expelled, but was able to resume his service in Aachen in March 1924. From 1928 he was Lord Mayor of the independent city of Aachen until he was deposed by the National Socialists in 1933. After that he was initially only active as a freelancer and on a voluntary basis. After the Second World War, he held the office again in 1945 when his predecessor Franz Oppenhoff was murdered by a werewolf squad . Finally, Wilhelm Rombach, who has now also joined the CDU , was appointed State Secretary to the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior from 1949 to 1952 .
From 1945 to 1972 he headed the board of the Josefs-Gesellschaft , an institution that has set itself the goal of supporting disabled people . Even disabled from birth - his left forearm was missing - his commitment to people with disabilities was a lifelong concern.
He was also a member of the Bundeswehr personnel appraisal committee . Rombach was a founding member of the Catholic student association KDStV Alania Bonn as well as a member of the KDStV Bergland and the KDSt.V. Kaiserpfalz in CV .
Wilhelm Rombach found his final resting place in the family grave at the Aachen forest cemetery .
Honors
On November 8, 1925, Wilhelm Rombach was granted honorary citizenship of RWTH Aachen as ... " the leader recognized by the Aachen student body as a shining example of loyal fulfillment of duty in the struggle for home in the Rhineland " and on December 20, 1945 ... " in Recognition of his unselfish work as a member of the provisional three-man committee for the reopening of the Aachen University in January 1946, for which he earned very special personal merits as former district president and state commissioner as well as later mayor of the city of Aachen " honorary senator of the RWTH- Aachen appointed. In 1952 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In addition, a street was named after him posthumously in May 1979 in the Brand district of Aachen .
literature
- The holdings of the North Rhine-Westphalian Main State Archives , Düsseldorf 1984
- Hans Siemons : Between the barriers: Wilhelm Rombach - a life for the border region , Meyer and Meyer Aachen, 1996, ISBN 3-89124-344-8
- Friedrich Fehrmann: Life pictures of some senior officials of the Aachen government since 1922 , In: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein , 78/1967
- Extract from the biographical database of RWTH Aachen University: [1] - (groups of people - honorary senators)
- Eduard Arens, Wilhelm Leopold Janssen : Club Aachener Casino , new ed. by Elisabeth Janssen and Felix Kuetgens , Druck Metz, Aachen 2nd edition 1964, p. 244
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Rombach in the catalog of the German National Library
- Minutes of the Prussian State Ministry - acta borussica; Vol. 11.2, p. 677 (PDF; 2.0 MB)
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Lord Mayor: Cornelius von Guaita (1815–1820) | Mathias Solders (1820–1826) | Wilhelm Daniels (1826–1832) | Edmund Emundts (1832–1848) | Arnold Edmund Pelzer (1848-1851) | Johann Contzen (1851–1875) | Ludwig von Weise (1875–1883) | Ludwig Pelzer (1884–1896) | Philipp Veltman (1896–1916) | Wilhelm Farwick (1916–1928) | Wilhelm Rombach (1929–1933) | Quirin Jansen (1933–1944) | Franz Oppenhoff (1944–1945) | Wilhelm Rombach (1945) | Ludwig Kuhnen (1946) | Albert Maas (1946–1952) | Hermann Heusch (1952–1973) | Kurt Malangré (1973–1989) | Jürgen Linden (1989–2009) | Marcel Philipp (since 2009)
City directors: Albert Servais (1946–1954) | Anton Kurz (1954–1975) | Heiner Berger (1975-1995)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rombach, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Lord Mayor and District President of Aachen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roetgen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th September 1973 |
| Place of death | Aachen |