Bernhard Wening

Bernhard Wening (born January 25, 1886 in Dülmen ; † July 28, 1974 in Telgte ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician.

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Born as the son of the married couple Bernhard Wening and Helene Hilgenberg, Bernhard Wening studied law at the Gymnasium Nepomucenum Coesfeld after graduating from high school and passed his first state examination on November 4, 1909. On December 1, 1909, he was court trainee at the Hamm Higher Regional Court . From October 1, 1910, he did his military service as a one-year volunteer with the Emperor Franz Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 2 in Berlin and was deployed as a reserve lieutenant in the First World War from August 1914 . On September 30, 1916, he passed his major state examination and was then judge-martial at various courts-martial of the VII Army Corps (German Empire) until November 1919 .

After the war, Wening was employed as a court assessor for the district governments of Münster and Arnsberg . On October 30, 1926, he was commissioned with the provisional management of the Olpe District Office and on May 19, 1927 appointed District Administrator of the Olpe District. On April 6, 1933, he took temporary retirement . On August 2, 1933, he was briefly assigned to the Schleswig government and from August 30, 1933 to 1945, he held various positions in the Münster government.

On September 3, 1945 he was entrusted with the administration of the Coesfeld district . The British Military Government confirmed this appointment on January 18, 1946. In April 1946, he was appointed Oberkreisdirektor of the Coesfeld district and remained in this position until his retirement on November 30, 1951.

Wening was a member of the center from 1909 to June 24, 1933 .

His marriage to Helene Lücke in 1915 resulted in four children.

Web links

• Wening, Bernhard. on www.lwl.org (Westphalian history)
• Bernhard Wening Local Family Book Coesfeld