August Loening

August Löning (born January 27, 1889 in Meppen ; † October 12, 1966 in Lathen ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

biography

After finishing high school in Meppen, Löning attended an agricultural high school in Kleve . He then completed a commercial apprenticeship and went on extensive trips abroad. In 1922 he founded a shop for manufactured goods in Lathen .
During the First World War , Löning was initially stationed on Heligoland . Here he met the Berlin imperial marine painter Ludwig Kath, a painter who later often came to work in the Emsland. He then enjoyed a few weeks of free vacation with the Löning family. In 1916, Löning, as artillery mate in the reserve, applied for his transfer to Flanders, which he was granted. During the war, he was buried in the trenches and discovered unconscious. Years later he suffered from this traumatic experience.

Löning was a sensitive and artistically gifted man who, as a patron, also supported artists. In particular, he campaigned for the poor Emsland sculptor and poet Bernhard Heller , known as Hellerbernd , in Lathen . For a few years, until about 1930, the sculptor and poet lived in the family of his friend Löning. Then he could set up his own workshop in which he also lived. Löning was drafted again in World War II and experienced the end of the war as a lieutenant commander in Wilhelmshaven.

Löning was a member of the general assembly of the Osnabrück Chamber of Commerce and Industry from May 15, 1947 to December 31, 1958. He was active in several committees.
In 1951 he was the founder and the first chairman of the district home association Aschendorf-Hümmling until the end of September 1966. Here he was particularly committed to the renovation and maintenance of mills, such as the ailing Hüvener mill.
For over a decade he was also a member of the board of directors of the Emsland Homeland Association , now the Emsland Homeland Association .

Löning was friends with the Westphalian writers Karl Wagenfeld and Friedrich Castelle . He himself published some lyrical volumes as well as a number of poems. Since 1948 he was involved in the Emslandske Sellskupp. Well-known Emsland poets - mainly educators - had come together in it.

He was married to Johanna Kock from Emsbüren. The couple had five children.

politics

In November 1945 he was one of the eleven founding members of the CDU in the Aschendorf-Hümmling district, where the Center Party used to be very strong. He belonged to the district council appointed by the British in 1945 and was a member of the influential district committee from 1946. When the local member of the state parliament, District Administrator Wilhelm Borgmann, died unexpectedly in 1947, Löning was his successor in the replacement election. He was CDU district chairman in the Aschendorf / Ems - Hümmling district until 1966 and a member of the district council since 1946.

Löning was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from November 16, 1947 to April 30, 1951 (1st electoral term) and from May 6, 1955 to May 5, 1963 (3rd and 4th electoral term). He was from March 28, 1951 and from May 9, 1955 to May 5, 1959 a member of the DP / CDU parliamentary group.

On his 70th birthday in January 1959, Löning received the Order of Merit First Class of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Works

• Der See im Moor, in: Heimat-Kalender 1925. Ed. Vom Kreise Meppen, 1st year, Meppen (no year), p. 22. In it further: Das Hünengrab, p. 30, Gute Nacht, p. 41, Der Ahnenhof, p. 57, The second face, p. 67; Heideheimat, p. 79.
• O home; Up, homesickness (poems), in: Emslandbuch. A home book for the districts of Meppen, Aschendorf, Hümmling 1928, (Meppen 1927), pp. 21, 67. Furthermore: Six Heidelieder, p. 88.
• Westerlohmühlen (poem), in: Emslandske Sellskup Heft 2/3, Meppen 1950 (without page counting).
• Föhrenklage (poem), in: Emslandkalender 1953, Meppen 1952, p. 84.
• Home, beautiful home. From heather and moor. Poetry and prose, Lathen (1954).
• The story of an old Emsland merchant family [Löning], in: Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatverein Vol. 2, (Meppen 1954), pp. 137–145.
• Herbst, Lathen (around 1961).
• Autumn fog, Lathen 1961.
• What my great-grandfather's diary has to say, Lathen 1961.
• My great-grandfather's diary, in: Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatverein, Vol. IX, Meppen 1962, pp. 106–111. Also published as a special print from the yearbook, Meppen 1963.
• With Wagenfeld and Castelle through Heide and Moor, Lathen 1962. Also in: Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatverein, vol. 19/1972, (Meppen o. J.), pp. 93–96.
• As grandfather still lived (poem), in: Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatverein, Bd. 14/1967, oOuJ, p. 120.
• Der Geisterkampf (poem), in: Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatverein, vol. 15/1968, oOuJ, p. 105.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 240.
• (Rudolf) Knoke, In memoriam August Löning, in: Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatbund, Bd. 14/1967, oOuJ, pp. 121–124.
• Johannes Rüschen: Art. Löning, August, in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.): Emsländische Geschichte, Vol. 13, Haselünne 2006, pp. 377–390.
• Johannes Rüschen, August Löning. Poet, local researcher and politician (1889–1966), in: Johannes Rüschen (Ed.), Known Emsländer from the past. Biographical notes on Emsland personalities from the years 1200–1975, Bremen 1988, pp. 187–193.