Bruno Klausener

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Bruno Klausener (* 1887 in Düsseldorf ; † after June 15, 1957) was a full-time district administrator as an administrative lawyer from 1945 to 1946 and then until 1948 the first part-time district administrator in the Schleiden district . Before 1945 he ran a law firm in Düsseldorf. Bruno Klausener was the younger brother of Erich Klausener, who was murdered in 1934 as part of the cleansing wave after the Röhm Putsch .

Life

As the son of the temporary justice of the peace (1874–1879) and as a representative of Karl Küpper, District Administrator of Düsseldorf (1879–1880), Peter Klausener and his wife Elisabeth, née Biesenbach (1864–1944), Bruno Klausener studied like his father and the older brother Erich law . Before 1945, Bruno Klausener, who holds a doctorate in law , worked as a lawyer in Düsseldorf .

In March 1945, at the time of the occupation by Allied associations, Bruno Klausener lived as a war evacue on the Vellerhof south of Blankenheim , at the same time where the greater part of the Schleiden district administration and its incumbent district administrator Josef Schramm were also housed there. While Schramm was imprisoned for nine weeks, the US military administration appointed Klausener as his successor. Shortly afterwards, on March 19, 1945, Klausener moved the district administration to the nearby Steinfeld Monastery . A return to the badly damaged district town of Schleiden should only be possible in autumn 1946.

Klausener himself described the process in 1950 how he came to the position of district administrator in the badly damaged district of Schleiden, which was marked by the last months of the war:

"Since I was within reach, I was asked by various places to take over the post of district administrator, which would be all the easier for me because the courts had not yet reopened their doors, and so I would in the event that I go to Düsseldorf would return but would be unemployed. As I was evacuated from the area of St. Vith and then in Vellerhof, I had gradually warmed myself to the Eifel and its residents, I agreed to take over the post of district administrator for a transitional period. "

- Bruno Klausener in 1950

Klausener served as Schleiden District Administrator for three terms. Initially deployed in 1945 by the military administration, he became the first honorary district administrator in the district when the senior district directors were introduced in the British zone of occupation in 1946 and finally from 1947 until his departure on November 11, 1948. With his election on November 20, 1947, he was also a full member of the board of the North Rhine-Westphalian District Assembly founded on March 10, 1947.

On October 21, 1947, Bruno Klausener was elected to the investigation committee by the Schleiden district council, which was supposed to investigate the destruction of the denazification file of Mayor Schmahl from Nettersheim by members of the denazification committee. Reason: Mayor Schmahl had previously concealed his NSDAP membership.

In 1946 Klausener decided against the newly established position of the Oberkreisdirektor as a full-time head of administration and for the now political position of the honorary district administrator. Not least because of the intention, which was ultimately realized in 1948, to return to Düsseldorf and to re-establish his law firm there as a lawyer at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court . In October 1945, he was one of the first to be sworn in by the military administration and thus also by the president of the bar association.

Fonts

  • Five years ago! In: 1951 home calendar of the Eifel border district Schleiden. Ed. Oberkreisdirektor, Schleiden 1950, pp. 22–36.

literature

  • District Assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): Documentation on the district administrators and senior district directors in North Rhine-Westphalia 1845–1991. Knipping, Düsseldorf 1992, p. 392.
  • Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 290 note 59 (on the father Peter Klausener) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno Klausener, lawyer in the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne , Schwering, Leo (Best. 1193) A 203, running time : June 15, 1957. Accessed on May 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ Horst Romeyk: The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945.
  3. ^ A b Karl J. Lüttgens (ed.): Chronicle of the Schleiden / Euskirchen district and its neighbors 1792–1980. Events-people-places-data connections. Wallraf, Schleiden 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-029457-0 .
  4. ↑ Bruno Klausener: Five years ago! In: 1951 home calendar of the Eifel border district Schleiden. Ed. Oberkreisdirektor, Schleiden 1950, p. 22.
  5. ↑ Landkreistag North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Documentation on the district administrators and senior district directors in North Rhine-Westphalia 1845–1991. Knipping, Düsseldorf 1992, p. 392.
  6. ↑ Landkreistag North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Documentation on the district administrators and senior district directors in North Rhine-Westphalia 1845–1991. Knipping, Düsseldorf 1992, p. 784.
  7. ↑ Article: Denazization Committee Destroys Files , Volksstimme No. 85, v. 11/03/1947, page 6:
  8. ↑ Bruno Klausener: Five years ago! In: 1951 home calendar of the Eifel border district Schleiden. Ed. Oberkreisdirektor, Schleiden 1950, p. 32.
personal data
SURNAME Klausener, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, lawyer and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH after June 15, 1957