Aloys Castenholz

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Aloys Castenholz (born April 1, 1885 in Münstereifel ; † October 29, 1947 in Wittlich ) was a German district administrator in the district of Wittlich (1942-1947) and district president in Koblenz (1945).

Life

The Catholic Aloys Castenholz, son of a rentier , started studying law after passing his school- leaving examination . In the year of the beginning of the First World War , taking the second state examination as a court assessor, he joined the Royal Prussian Government in Cologne as an unskilled worker during the war in 1917 , where he was also appointed government assessor in 1919.

In 1920 Castenholz moved to the same position in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, where he was promoted to the Government Council in 1921 and to the Upper Government Council in 1923 before he was transferred to the Prussian Government in Düsseldorf in 1925 and was appointed Government Director . As early as January 10, 1927, Castenholz was again transferred to the government in Hildesheim , where he was also the representative of the District President Carl von Halfern from Burtscheid near Aachen . After von Halfern's transfer to Stettin on April 1, 1927, Castenholz returned to the government in Düsseldorf in 1928, where he represented the District President Karl Bergemann, who had been active there since 1924, in the same position . While the Social Democrat Bergemann few months after the seizure of power by the National Socialists on May 6, 1933 Wilhelm Reich was on hiatus and 1 December 1933 on fundamental § 6   BBG was retired, followed Castenholz retirement due to the BBG 1934 . As an official cancellation then he took after 26 March 1942, the administration of the district Wittlich true, the earlier the district administrator of the district of Bernkastel , Hermann Middendorf was administered in one. Middendorf and Castenholz represented Günther Kraaz , who was formally acting as District Administrator in Wittlich , who was initially appointed provisionally as District Administrator on July 1, 1939 and finally received the definitive appointment on March 6, 1940, before he was appointed from July 21, 1940 should be withdrawn from his duties as a participant in World War II . Kraaz became a prisoner of war, from which he did not return until 1955, but remained officially until the occupation of the region by the Allied forces and the end of the previous administration of Wittlich district administrator.

Castenholz was provisionally appointed as district administrator in Wittlich on March 30, 1942. With the capture of the left Rhineland by US troops, the deployed military administration left Castenholz in his office as district administrator. After the end of the Second World War and in mid-May 1945, following Hans Fuchs's successor , he was entrusted by the military administration with the management of the government in Koblenz.He finally moved back to Wittlich at the beginning of June 1945, where he died on October 29, 1947 during a service meeting.

Trivia

During a major flight day on May 18, 1957 at the Air Base of the US Air Force Spangdahlem , Else Castenholz, Aloy's widow, christened an American Douglas B-66 reconnaissance bomber in the presence of Colonel Kenneth R. Powell and the incumbent district administrator of the Wittlich district, Johannes Hieronimus (Code 54-0459) in the name of “Kreis Wittlich”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 320 note 200 .
  2. ↑ Claudia Schmitt: Castenholz, Alois, District Administrator in: Heinz Monz (Hrsg.): Trier biographical lexicon . Landesarchivverwaltung, Koblenz 2000, ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , p. 62.
  3. ^ 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. 496 f .
  4. ^ 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. 354 f .
  5. ^ 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. 584 f .
  6. ↑ a b District Government Koblenz (ed.): The District Presidents of Koblenz (Volume 3 of the series of publications of the District Government Koblenz), Rhenania, Koblenz 1983, ISBN 3-922755-13-5 , p. 83.
  7. ↑ Lydia Vasiliou: In the footsteps of an airplane , on volksfreund.de of May 16, 2007, accessed on February 1, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Castenholz, Aloys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castenholz, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German District Administrator of the Wittlich District (1942–1947) and District President in Koblenz (1945)
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Münstereifel
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1947
Place of death Wittlich