Adolf Varain
Adolf Varain (born November 26, 1888 in Trier , † August 21, 1967 in Cologne ) was a Prussian officer , district administrator and district president .
Life
family
Adolf Varain came from a Catholic industrialist family in Trier. He was born as the son of the leather manufacturer Thomas Varain and Maria. Leven born. On September 14, 1918 he married Aenny born in Cologne. Minten, daughter of the district administrator of the Cologne district Josef Minten. His nephew was the sculptor Ernst Thomas Maria Reimbold .
Career
After High School at Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium in Trier in 1908 studied Varain Law at the University of Cambridge , the University of Lausanne and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn . In 1911 he passed the legal trainee examination and then worked as a court trainee in Trier and from 1913 as a government trainee.
In 1912 he was called up for military service, which he performed in the Schleswig-Holstein Uhlan Regiment No. 15 of the Royal Prussian Army . With the beginning of the First World War he was first promoted to vice sergeant and then to lieutenant in the reserve of the Jäger Regiment on Horseback No. 7 . In 1915 he was wounded while on patrol . In 1916 he was appointed mayor of the small town of Wyszogród in occupied Mazovia and was then employed as an unskilled worker for the head of administration in the General Government of Warsaw . From 1917 he was the deputy district chief in Turek . In 1918 he was posted to the 50th foot artillery battalion. In 1920 he was retired from military service with the character of first lieutenant .
From 1919 he was a government assessor and from 1920 found a job with the regional council in Trier. In addition, he wrote his dissertation and was also awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . In 1922 he was assigned the management of the district office in Daun , and in the same year he was appointed district administrator of the Daun district. In 1923, during the occupation of the Ruhr , he was expelled from the occupied territory by the French military, like many other officers, then arrested and sentenced to one year in prison by a court martial.
After his release in 1924, he was appointed District Administrator of the Verden an der Aller district. He held this office for eight years. After the district reform, in which the Verden and Achim districts were merged by a regulation of the Prussian State Ministry, he was put into temporary retirement on September 30, 1932.
He then became vice president of the Münster administrative district and from 1936 provisional district president of the Trier administrative district . In 1938 he was transferred to the high command of the Wehrmacht as a waiting officer , where he was employed in the armaments department of the Wehrwirtschaftsamt until May 1945, interrupted by military service from 1939 to 1944.
In 1949, Varain was retired with effect from August 1, 1948. Varain did not belong to any party.
literature
- Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 .
- Heinz Monz (Hrsg.): Trier Biographical Lexicon. Scientific publishing house, Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4
Web links
- Entry on Adolf Varain in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 789 .
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874 - 1945, Verden district
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Varain, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian officer, district administrator and district president |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1967 |
| Place of death | Cologne |