Albert Maas (politician)
Albert Maas (born May 14, 1888 in Kalkar , † July 11, 1970 in Aachen ) was a German politician.
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After graduating from high school, Maas studied economics and completed his studies with a degree in economics. Until 1933 he was a member of the Center Party , for which he was managing director in Aachen.
After the beginning of the National Socialist rule he worked in the commercial area. In 1944, Maas was arrested as part of the grid action and first imprisoned in Aachen prison on Adalbertsteinweg and then in the Cologne exhibition halls concentration camp .
In September 1945 Maas was a co-founder of the Christian Democratic Party in Aachen - since 1946 it has also been called the CDU there . He was chairman of the party in Aachen since 1945 and was chairman of the district association until 1956. From October 1946 to November 1952 he was the Lord Mayor of Aachen. As such, he was a member of the board of directors for the award of the International Charlemagne Prize , which he also co-founded in 1949. In the first term of appointment, Maas was a member of the appointed state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .
In addition, Maas was co-founder and managing director of the Aachener Volkszeitung in 1946 .
In Aachen a street is named after Maas. The television journalist Angela Maas and the film director Georg Maas are two of his grandchildren. Albert Maas found his final resting place in the Aachen forest cemetery .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aachener Zeitung : How the Aachen CDU learned to walk after the war ( 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. , May 25, 2008
literature
- Claudia Conradi: The Christian Democratic Union in Aachen - from founding to consolidation, dissertation, Bonn 2006
Web links
Albert Maas (politician) at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
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 | Maas, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (center, CDU), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kalkar |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1970 |
| Place of death | Aachen |