Bernhard Rosshoff

Bernhard Roßhoff (born July 11, 1908 in Hiesfeld , Dinslaken district , † January 11, 1986 in Sonsbeck ) was a German CDU politician .

education and profession

Bernhard Roßhoff was born as the sixth of ten children of the Catholic model carpenter Johann Heinrich Roßhoff in Hiesfeld on the Lower Rhine, today a district of Dinslaken. He graduated from elementary school and secondary school in Dinslaken. This was followed by a visit to the administration school. Roßhoff worked from 1925 to 1937 in the municipal administration of the city of Dinslaken and from 1937 to 1948 in the financial administration. From 1948 to 1969 he was the official director of the Lower Rhine community of Sonsbeck. From 1969 until his retirement in 1972 he worked as a community director in Sonsbeck.

politics

In his youth, Bernhard Roßhoff joined the Christian-social workers' movement and was a member of the Windthorstbund and the Center Party . In 1946 he was a co-founder of the CDU on the Lower Rhine. Bernhard Roßhoff had been a member of the board of the Sonsbeck local branch of the CDU since 1970. In 1974 he became a member of the board of the CDU district party in Wesel. From 1956 to 1964 he was a member of the Rhineland Regional Assembly in the Social and Cultural Committee. From 1958 to 1967 he was a member of the administrative committee of the Moers employment office and of the Wesel employment office from 1967 to 1972 .

Bernhard Roßhoff was directly elected member of the 7th and 8th Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia for constituency 043 Moers III from July 26, 1970 to May 28, 1980 . He served on the Transport Committee and the Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee.

Private

In addition to his professional and political activities, the Christian Bernhard Roßhoff was also culturally involved. Since his youth he had contact with Pastor Augustinus Winkelmann (1881–1954) in Marienthal ( Hamminkeln ), who encouraged young visual artists to be interested in sacred art. After the war, Bernhard Roßhoff was active for many years as a board member of the Xanten Cathedral Building Association for the restoration and restoration of the Xanten Cathedral . He was also very interested in the history of his adopted home Sonsbeck. This resulted in numerous publications on historical aspects of Sonsbeck and the surrounding communities.

Honors

• 1978: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications

• A walk to the rabbit field . In: Local calendar for the district of Moers 1952, p. 54
• On the history of the poor in Sonsbeck . In: Home calendar for the district of Moers 1954, pp. 140–144
• From the early days of Sonsbeck's history . In: Home calendar for the district of Moers 1957, pp. 123–126
• Christian s'Grootens from Sonsbeck . In: Home calendar for the district of Moers 1958, pp. 31–33
• From old Labbeck . In: Home calendar for the district of Moers 1960, pp. 57–62
• St. Bernardin Monastery in Hamb . In: Home calendar for the district of Moers 1961, pp. 33–39
• Encounter with Heinrich Lersch . In: Local calendar for the district of Moers 1962, p. 81
• The Palatinate settlement on Bönninghardt . In: Home calendar for the district of Moers 1964, pp. 83–87
• Sonsbeck: From the Klevian city to a unified community . In: Home calendar for the district of Moers 1970, pp. 53–59
• Memorial sheet for Emil Barth . In: home calendar of the Wesel district 1980, pp. 115–116
• The piglet market in Sonsbeck . In: Home calendar of the Wesel district 1980, pp. 175–179
• Augustinus Winkelmann . In: Home calendar of the Wesel district 1981, pp. 69–76
• The pharmacy in Sonsbeck . In: Home calendar of the Wesel district 1981, pp. 154–156
• The changing village - Labbeck, peasantry and residential village . In: Home calendar of the Wesel district 1982, pp. 150–155
• 500 years Sonsbeck calvary , in: home calendar of the Wesel district 1983, pp. 97–99
• The account book of the potter Heinrich Nobis from Sonsbeck . In: Home calendar of the Wesel district 1985, pp. 36–40
• Community of Sonsbeck on the Lower Rhine , Rheinische Kunststätten 313, Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz , Neuss 1986, ISBN 3-88094-529-2
• The manuscripts of the Andreaskloster in Sonsbeck in the state library in Darmstadt . In: Heimatkalender des Kreis Wesel 1987, pp. 36–39
• The Andreaskloster in Sonsbeck Foundation, land acquisition, beginnings . In: Heimatkalender des Wesel District 1988, pp. 47–56
• B. Roßhoff, G. Schwarzwald: Sonsbeck 1320–1970, data, documents, inscriptions , Sonsbeck 1970

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landtag intern. Information from the Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia, edition of March 4, 1977, page 15
2. ↑ Landtag NRW - former MPs
3. ↑ Margreth Wensky (Ed.): Sonsbeck - The history of the Lower Rhine community from the early days to the present. Cologne 2003
4. ↑ Landtag intern. Information from the Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia, edition of March 4, 1977, page 15
5. ^ WAZ / NRZ, Rheinberg and Xanten edition of January 12, 1986
6. ↑ Landtag intern. Information from the Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia, edition of March 4, 1977, page 15
7. ↑ Landtag intern. Information from the Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia, edition of March 4, 1977, page 15
8. ↑ Landtag NRW - former MPs
9. ↑ Landtag intern. Information from the Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia, edition of March 4, 1977, page 15
10. ↑ Obituary of the Association for the Preservation of Xanten Cathedral e. V. from January 1986
11. ↑ Landtag intern. Information from the Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia, edition of March 4, 1977, page 15
12. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 219, November 21, 1978.

Web links

Bernhard Roßhoff at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament