Anton Köchling

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Anton Köchling (born January 3, 1903 in Paderborn ; † March 18, 1990 ) was director of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association from 1954 to 1968 , campaigned particularly for Franco-German understanding and was a CDU politician.

Live and act

Köchling was born on January 3, 1903 in Paderborn, died at the age of 87 on March 18, 1990. He was married to Martha Johanna, née Schulte, and had four children, two boys and two girls.

From 1913 to 1922 he attended high schools in Essen-Borbeck and Paderborn. As a schoolboy he was involved in the Catholic youth association Bund Neudeutschland (ND) and was spokesman for the ND groups in Essen. He then studied law and political science at the Universities of Cologne and Munich. Since 1922 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Tuiskonia Munich. He passed his first state examination in law at the Higher Regional Court in Cologne in 1925, and received his doctorate on July 19, 1926. jur.

From 1926 to 1929 Anton Köchling worked as a court or government trainee at various locations, including the Recklinghausen district, where he was appointed government assessor in 1929. As a government assessor he worked until 1936 at the district offices of Marienburg in Hildesheim and Hameln-Pyrmont in Hameln.

From July 1936 to September 1946 Anton Koechling worked as a department head in the regional councils in Szczecin , Usti and Cologne . In 1945 he joined the CDU and was with August Dresbach founder of the CDU in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

In 1948 he finally became general manager of the North Rhine-Westphalian district council in Düsseldorf, in 1949 he was appointed to the senior government council in the interior ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf, and in 1950 he was elected senior district director in the district of Recklinghausen.

By resolution of the landscape assembly, he was appointed director of the regional association Westphalia-Lippe on March 29, 1954, replacing Bernhard Salzmann , who still carried the title of governor.

Military activity

After the Second World War, Anton Köchling had to face investigations by the occupation into a National Socialist past. After he was released from his work as a department head at the Cologne government from May 1945 to August 1946 due to these investigations, the German Denazification Committee issued him a certificate of exoneration, which certified him as category V (exonerated).

In a certificate of good repute from Dresbach, the former regional councilor of the Oberbergischer Kreis, for Anton Köchling to the district president in Cologne, Dresbach Köchling described as follows: “[…] I see in Dr. Köchling the talented and passionate administrative officer who was absorbed in the service of public administration. This motive may also have been decisive when he z. Currently in the public administration, even after the so-called takeover of power. Then there was what Dr. Köchling stated in his own report that he was left without any means and that leaving the administration would have put him in dire straits [...] This pressure, however, [...] weighed on those higher officials who were in a sharp defensive position until they came to power or even stood in the fight against National Socialism. However, Dr. Köchling heard in an excellent way. "

Military services
August 1935 to September 1935 Infantry Training Battalion (8-week exercise)
August 1938 to September 1938 Pioneer Battalion Stettin (8-week exercise)
July 1940 to December 1942 Military Administration France, Senior Military Administrator
November 1943 to April 1944 Risa Engineer Battalion
April 1944 to September 1944 Military Administration France - Military Administrator

Honors

Due to his services in various areas, Köchling received many honors and awards.

In 1962 he received an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the University of Münster , was a holder of the DRK badge of honor , the medal of merit of the state association Westphalia-Lippe and a knight of the Order of St. Gregory .

Because of his services to German-Belgian relations, the Belgian government awarded him the order of Leopold II in 1962 , together with the Provincial Councilor Paasch, who received the officer award of the same order. Albert de Clerck, the Belgian minister for medium-sized companies at the time, presented the awards in Brussels. In his speech, Köchling mentioned the honor this award was for the whole of Westphalia: “We perceive this award as an extraordinary honor not only for us personally, but for all of Westphalia. [...] The awards should not be an honor for us alone. You are an obligation to us for the future. With my words of thanks, you can also take the assurance that we will always endeavor to forge closer human and cultural ties between your beautiful country and Westphalia. "

For his "humanly correct attitude towards the French population during the Second World War" and for his services to the "Franco-German understanding after the war" he was awarded the Commander's Cross " Ordre National du Mérite " by the French government in 1966 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Memory of Dr. Anton Köchling on KV-Recklinghausen.drk.de. Retrieved June 12, 2013.
  2. ^ New Germany - "But our group stayed strong" at the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne (about the persistence of the ND group in Essen-Borbeck during the Nazi era).
  3. ↑ Minutes of the federal board meeting of the CDU on November 27, 1964 at which Anton Köchling was excused, available on the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung website (PDF; 8.1 MB), accessed on June 26, 2013
  4. ↑ Union in Deutschland, 6/1968, section Personalalien, available on the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung website , accessed on June 26, 2013
  5. ↑ Archive LWL Order 115
  6. ↑ Archive LWL Order 132 / K 472
  7. ↑ Archive LWL order 840-10 .
  8. ↑ Archive LWL Order 132 / K 472 .
  9. ^ Honorary doctorates from the faculty of the University of Münster. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
  10. ↑ Archive LWL Order 115 .
  11. ^ Archive LWL inventory 906 .
personal data
SURNAME Kochling, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1990