Adolf Flecken

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Adolf Flecken (born July 26, 1889 in Neuss ; † December 26, 1966 there ) was a German politician ( center , CDU ).

Life

After graduating from the Quirinus-Gymnasium in Neuss, Flecken studied law and political science at the Universities of Bonn and Munich and was awarded a doctorate in both rights in 1913 at the University of Greifswald with the thesis The Liability of the Acquirer for the Liabilities Established in the Operation of the Business in the Event of a Business Transfer between Living Persons Dr. iur. utr. PhD . In 1911 he had passed the legal traineeship, from 1914 to 1918 he was legal advisor in the Prussian War Ministry,

In 1918 he passed the major state examination in Berlin. From 1918 to 1922 he was admitted to the bar at the Kammergericht in Berlin and was the chief executive of various business organizations (especially the food industry). Flecken was married to Therese, geb. Goder, from Neuss; they had a daughter and a son.

In 1922 he returned to Neuss, where he worked from 1922 as a lawyer and managing director of a book printing company. In 1926 he became chairman of the vocational training committee of the Neuss Chamber of Commerce and Industry and in 1930 general manager of the Neuss industrialists 'community and the employers' association there. During the time of the Weimar Republic he joined the Center Party and was a city councilor in Neuss, in the Reichstag elections in 1933 he was a candidate for the Center Party in Neuss; with a margin of 0.61%, he was defeated by the NSDAP candidate.

During the Second World War , as the former general manager of the Community of Neuss industrialists, he was jointly responsible for the use of forced labor in Neuss. After the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944, briefly imprisoned as a former member of the Catholic Center Party, Flecken was considered politically unaffected and chaired the Neuss denazification committee.

After the Second World War, Flecken was a co-founder of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia and became a member of the state parliament, of which he was a member from 1947 until a few months before his death. From September 1950 to May 1952 he served as Minister of the Interior and from January 1952 to February 1956 as Minister of Finance in North Rhine-Westphalia under Prime Minister Karl Arnold ; during this time he was also a member of the Federal Council. He was the city councilor of his hometown Neuss for the CDU from 1945 to 1961; In the first post-war years he was also the managing director of the Neuss Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Flecken was often socially committed. So he was u. a. Chairman of the Rhenish Association for the Preservation of Monuments and Heritage Protection and the German and Rhenish Homeland Federation , co-founder of the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs (BKU) , member of the diocesan committee of the Catholic committees of the Archdiocese of Cologne , in Neuss a. a. Chairman of the Vereinigung der Heimatfreunde Neuss eV (1946 to 1966), the Neusser Rowing Club (1926 to 1937), member and later vice-president of the committee of the Neuss Citizens' Rifle Club (1948 to 1959, from 1965 honorary member of the club; 1937 he had an election in the committee still rejected) and president of the Neuss equestrian and racing club. For decades he was a member of the church council of the Catholic parish of St. Quirin in Neuss.

He was a member of the Catholic student associations KDStV Staufia Bonn (of which he was Philistine senior for around four decades), KDStV Rheno-Franconia Munich, KDStV Bavaria Bonn , FAV Rheno-Guestfalia Hann. Münden , KDStV Rheinfels zu Bonn and KDStV Alemannia Greifswald zu Münster in the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV) .

Large parts of the Fleckens estate are in the Neuss city archive.

See also: Cabinet Arnold II - Cabinet Arnold III

honors and awards

literature

  • Jens Metzdorf (Ed.): 150 citizens. The civil society of Neuss 1861–2011. Bürgergesellschaft zu Neuss, Neuss 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039656-4 , p. 110.
  • Society for student history and student customs registered association (Hrsg.): CV manual. 3rd edition, Regensburg, 2000, ISBN 3-922485-11-1 , p. 547.
  • Haunfelder, Bernd : North Rhine-Westphalia - Land and People, 1946-2006. A biographical manual . Aschendorff, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-402-06615-7 , p. 151.
  • Associated with Neuss / Ed .: Vereinigung der Heimatfreunde eV , Neuss 2003, ISBN 3-934794-06-8 , p. 57.
  • Munziger : Internationales Biographisches Archiv 50/1957 of December 2, 1957
  • Niewerth, Andrea, Christoph Roolf, Jens Metzdorf: Forced Labor in Neuss during the Second World War (1939–1945) , Volume 7 of the documentation of the Neuss City Archives, Neuss 2005, ISBN 3-922980-80-5 .
  • Neuss Yearbook for Art, Cultural History and Local History, 1967, p. 35.
  • 200 years of the Middle Lower Rhine Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Ed .: Dieter Porschen, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-933025-40-0 , pp. 21–41, 156.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mönchengladbach as place of death; so in Haunfelder, Bernd : North Rhine-Westphalia - Land and People, 1946–2006. A biographical manual . Aschendorff, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-402-06615-7 , p. 151 is incorrect.
  2. ↑ Death note Ursula Flecken, Sr. M. Innocentia OSA, death note collection Rhein Erft [1]
  3. ^ Death note Karl Flecken, death note collection Rhein Erft [2]
  4. ^ IHK Neuss, now IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein, queried on February 21, 2010
  5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neuss.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ^ Andrea Niewerth, Christoph Roolf: Forced labor in Neuss during the Second World War (1939–1945) . 7 of the documentation of the Neuss City Archives, City Archives. Stadtarchiv Neuss, 2005, ISBN 978-3-922980-80-3 ( Google Books ).
  7. ↑ unknown: antifa.neuss: speech at the commemoration on May 1, 2011. (No longer available online.) May 1, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 27, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / culicine.rssing.com  
  8. ^ Adolf Flecken at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
  9. ↑ Dieter Porschen (Ed.): 200 years of the Middle Lower Rhine Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Writings on Rhenish-Westphalian economic history, special volume of the Rheinisch-Westphalian Economic Archives Foundation in Cologne, Cologne, 2004
  10. ^ Association of Heimatfreunde Neuss eV, queried on February 22, 2010; "Connected to Neuss" , 75 years of the Association of Friends of Home, Neuss 2003, ISBN 3-934794-06-8 , p. 57
  11. ^ Neusser Ruderverein eV, queried on February 22, 2010; "100 Years of Neuss Rowing Club", Neuss 2014, p. 328; "50 years of Neuss rowing club, Neuss 1964, p. 10
  12. ↑ Neusser Bürger-Schützen-Verein eV, list of deceased honorary members, queried on February 22, 2010 ( memento of the original from October 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Joseph Lange, Bürger und Bürgerssöhne, 3rd edition 1998, ISBN 3-923607-27-X , u. a. Pp. 414, 563 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nbsv-online.de
  13. ↑ Neusser Reiter- und Rennverein eV, queried on February 22, 2010
  14. ^ Stadtarchiv Neuss, queried on February 20, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Flecken, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1966
Place of death Neuss