Albert Servais
Albert Servais (born February 26, 1887 in Aachen ; † October 27, 1974 there ) was a German politician ( center ).
Life
Servais attended elementary school . This was followed by training as a senior civil servant in the Reich Social Insurance. He then worked as an insurance clerk. Until 1917 Servais served as deputy administrative director of the general local health insurance fund in Aachen. From 1917 to 1923 he acted as association director of the health insurance association for the administrative region of Aachen and as association director of the health insurance companies for the Rhine province.
After the First World War , Servais began to be more active in the Catholic Center Party . The focus of his work was initially on local politics. In his hometown of Aachen he was a city councilor for a total of ten years. In 1923 Servais became alderman, in 1928 mayor (first alderman) of the city of Aachen. In addition, he was a full member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament from January 1922 and a deputy member of the Prussian State Council from 1929 to April 1933 . In September 1930 Servais was elected to the Reichstag as a candidate for the center for constituency 20 (Cologne-Aachen) , to which he belonged until July 1932.
After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Servais was given leave of absence on July 2 as the first alderman and city treasurer of his hometown and on September 1, 1933, was retired on the basis of the law to restore the civil service . He then became the managing director of the Kur- und Badegesellschaft GmbH in Aachen, which was newly founded in 1933 . Servais is listed in an SD survey “Record of leading men of the system time (denominational parties)” from June 1939 . According to the SD, Servais was a member of the NSDAP , but was "still Catholic today." According to his son, Servais was never a member of the NSDAP, but was at times a supporting member of the SS . Due to the early retirement and the reduced pension, Servais was forced to sell his house, the son said. On August 23, 1944, Servais was arrested as part of the " Operation Grid " and sent for two days to the Cologne-Deutz exhibition halls, at that time a sub-camp.
In 1946, Servais was elected by the Aachen city council as the city's first senior city director in the post-war period. In 1949 he was one of the co-founders of the "Society for the Awarding of the International Charlemagne Prize of the City of Aachen" (Charlemagne Prize Society), which still awards the Charlemagne Prize of the City of Aachen initiated by Kurt Pfeiffer . In addition, Servais was the first post-war president of the Aachen-Laurensberger Rennverein , which organizes the CHIO Aachen every year .
In 1956 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested on April 29, 1956 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He was a member of the Carolus Magnus Commander in Aachen.
Albert Servais found his final resting place in Westfriedhof II in Aachen.
Today the Albert-Servais-Allee in his hometown named after him reminds of him. The building of the medical clinic II of the city hospitals in Aachen on Goethestrasse was called Albert-Servais-Haus , but was demolished in November 1989 after the clinic moved to the new Aachen University Clinic .
Awards
- Large Federal Cross of Merit (1954)
- Accolade as a Knight of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem (1956)
- Honorary Citizen of Aachen (1974)
Fonts
- Bad Aachen. Most western cultural and economic center in Germany , 1952.
Web links
- Albert Servais in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Literature by and about Albert Servais in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted by Martin Schumacher (ed.): MdR Die Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 533.
- ^ Letter from the son of September 19 and 25, 1988, see Schumacher, MdR , p. 533.
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 | Servais, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (center), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1974 |
| Place of death | Aachen |