Anton Bohlen

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Anton Heinrich Böhlen (born July 16, 1912 in Paderborn ; † June 2, 1964 in Göttingen ) was a farmer and mayor of the East Westphalian city ​​of Warburg from 1952 to 1964 .

Life

His parents Anton Joseph Böhlen (1881–1945) and Maria Menne (1885–1972) were born in Dössel in the Warburger Börde . There, in today's Lehmkuhle 2, the family had a farm with a forge . Anton Josef was initially trained as a blacksmith on the farm. Then he went to the Reichsbahn and worked there as a locksmith, then as a stoker and finally as a locomotive driver. The family lived u. a. in Soest and Paderborn .

Anton Heinrich was born in Paderborn as the eldest of seven siblings in a railroader's apartment. In 1923 the family moved back to Warburg and founded a small farm, the Siekhof, near the railway site, initially as a sideline. At the request of his uncle, the Franciscan Johannes “Hyppolytus” Böhlen in Fulda , Anton Heinrich attended the grammar school of the Franciscan Order Watersleyde near Sittard in the Netherlands to prepare for the priesthood . However, he dropped out of school before graduating from high school and, with the support of his grandfather, who was still living in Dössel, trained in agriculture . During the Second World War he was drafted into military service in 1940, wounded, married Luise Hildegard Roeper on April 13, 1944 and then returned to the Eastern Front, where he narrowly escaped capture by the Soviet Army in 1945 . His father Anton Joseph was killed on January 25, 1945 in an air raid on a train he controlled between Willebadessen and Altenbeken.

After the end of the war, Anton Heinrich took over the Siekhof and expanded it further. He became a member of the newly founded CDU and councilor . In 1952 he was elected honorary mayor of Warburg. His achievements as mayor include the expansion of the first Warburg industrial area on the Upper Hilgenstock, where the first industrial companies such as the Warburger Nahrungsmittelwerke Kurt Hollbach, a branch of the terrycloth manufacturer Vossen and a furniture factory, set up new residential areas on the Hüffert and on the Silberbrede, the renovation of the Marianum grammar school and the expansion of the girls' school on the Hüffert with an upper school.

Anton Böhlen died on June 2, 1964 as the incumbent mayor and shooter king shortly before his 52nd birthday. His successor was Franz Mürmann .

Honors

  • The Anton-Böhlen-road , the main access road of the industrial area Upper Hilgenstock , was named after him.

Literature and web links

Individual evidence

  1. Geneanet zu Anton Joseph Böhlen, accessed on April 13, 2019