Anton Short

Anton Kurz (born August 4, 1910 in Hagen , † July 17, 1986 in Aachen ) was a German administrative officer and senior city director of the city of Aachen.

Life

Anton Kurz studied law in Munich, Münster, Berlin and Breslau from 1930 to 1933. During this time he became a member of the SA and joined the NSDAP on March 1, 1937 . Before that, he had worked as a trainee lawyer at the Hagen Regional Court from 1934 and was taken on as an associate lawyer there in 1938. From October 1938 to February 1945, Kurz was employed as an advisor to the Reich Commissioner for Price Formation - from February 1941 in the rank of government councilor. In the meantime, he knew from May 1941 to February 1942 his military service as a sergeant in the 78th Infantry Division and received his doctorate in 1943 for Dr. rer. pole. At the same time he was appointed from March 1942 to November 1944 as a councilor in Department III Wi - 6 (pricing and monitoring) of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and from June 1944 to December 1944 as a councilor in the Reich Ministry of Economics .

After the Second World War and its classification in Category V by the Hagen Denazification Committee , Kurz entered the public administration service. From 1947 to 1953 he was employed as the city treasurer of Hagen after he had previously joined the CDU . In 1954, Kurz followed a call from the city of Aachen, which appointed him as the successor to Albert Servais as its senior city director. In this position he headed the city administration of Aachen until his retirement in 1975. In the last years of his term of office, Anton Kurz played a major role in bringing about the local reorganization, which was concluded with the Aachen law of 1971.

In addition, from 1960 to 1976, he was chairman of the Landesverkehrsverband Rheinland e. V. and was appointed honorary chairman on the occasion of his departure. His successor in the office of senior city director, Heiner Berger , also succeeded him on the board of the regional transport association.

In 1966, Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant made Anton Kurz Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and invested in Cologne Cathedral on February 22nd, 1966 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

Anton Kurz was married to Marianne, b. Fisherman. The marriage resulted in 5 children. He found his final resting place in the family grave in Aachen's Westfriedhof .

honors and awards

• 1966 - Admission to the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher
• 1971 - Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1975 - Golden Ring of Honor of the City of Aachen for his services to the City of Aachen
• 1975 - Honorary member of the German Association of Cities
• 1976 - Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his numerous services to the city of Aachen and the development of the administrative structures
• 1976 - Honorary Chairman of the Landesverkehrsverband Rheinland e. V.
• Honorary citizen of RWTH Aachen
• Name giver of Anton-Kurz-Allee in Aachen

Fonts

• Price and location issues in the German iron-making industry , dissertation, Berlin 1943
• together with Hermann Heusch : Aachen - a city of Charlemagne and the healing springs , Wolf Strache, Stuttgart 1957
• Aachen. A city on the border is building , Kurz, Stuttgart, 1957
• Aachen. The Rheinisch-Westfälisch-Technische Hochschule , Kurz, Stuttgart 1961
• Aachen. Planning, construction, progress ; City administration of Aachen, Aachen 1965
• Aachen 1945–1970. 25 years of building activity , Bek, Stuttgart 1971

swell

• Who is who? , Volume 21, 1981, p. 690

Web links

• Chronicle of the city of Aachen 1976-2007 with mentions of Anton Kurz under May 1976 , July 1976 , August 1980 , August 1986 (PDF; 5.3 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vita , on reichsministerium.de
2. ^ The local election officials of the CDU. (No longer available online.) CDU district association Hagen, archived from the original on February 5, 2017 ; accessed on June 14, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Entry from the RWTH Aachen University Archives : “Awarding of the Grand Cross of Merit to Dr. Anton short ”.
4. ^ Honorary ring holder of the city of Aachen . City Aachen.
5. ↑ Personnel and course directory of RWTH Aachen University for the winter semester 1963/64 Entry Anton short as an honorary citizen on page 5