Adolf Ahrens (captain)

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Adolf Ahrens (born September 17, 1879 in Geestemünde ; † January 21, 1957 in Bremen ) was a captain and commodore as well as a German politician .

biography

Ahren's father was a gardener at Rickmerswerft in Bremerhaven. Adolf Ahrens started a career as a seafarer in 1893 at the age of 14. He became a cabin boy on a sailing ship. In 1898 he was a helmsman and in 1901 a ship officer at North German Lloyd . In the period without shipping after the First World War , he worked in the commercial department until 1923 and then again at Lloyd.

In 1928 he was given command of the Columbus , Lloyd's flagship at the time. In 1934 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3.399.161). In 1936 he became captain of the Bremen . In 1939, when the Second World War broke out , he succeeded with the Bremen in the spectacular transfer of the ship from New York via Murmansk to Bremerhaven. For this he was appointed commodore of the North German Lloyd. In 1941 he retired.

He was also active as a writer. Almost all of his books were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet Zone in 1946 due to their National Socialist characteristics .

Ahrens was a member of the first German Bundestag ( MdB ) from 1949 to 1953 . He was elected via the state list of the German Party (DP) in Bremen. He also managed the Seefahrt house in Bremen. From 1952 to 1953 he was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . In Bremerhaven the "Kommodore-Ahrens-Straße" is named after Ahrens. In mid-2017, the city of Bremerhaven decided to attach an explanatory additional sign to the street sign due to Ahrens' Nazi past.

literature

  • Gerhard Lohmnitz: Ahrens, Adolf. In: Historische Gesellschaft Bremen, Staatsarchiv Bremen (ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912-1962 , Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 10 (column 1) to p. 11 (column 1).
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Violence: Members of the Bundestag / I - X legislative period of former NSDAP and / or branch memberships ( Memento from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file, accessed on November 19, 2011; 61 kB).
  2. ^ German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone (Ed.): List of the literature to be sorted out . Preliminary edition. Zentralverlag, Berlin April 1, 1946, p. 5 ( polunbi.de [accessed June 22, 2017]).
  3. ↑ See Bremerhaven city map in meinestadt.de, accessed March 4, 2018
  4. ↑ Rainer Donsbach: Burdensome Nazi past: seven streets receive signs indicating the dubious past of the namesake. In: Nordsee-Zeitung June 28, 2017, page 9
personal data
SURNAME Ahrens, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German captain and politician (DP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Geestemünde
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1957
Place of death Bremen