Carl Heinrich Renken

Carl Heinrich Renken (born March 31, 1893 in Sandel ; † November 12, 1954 in Wilhelmshaven ) was a German businessman and local politician of the NSDAP .

Career

Renken was born as the son of Carl-Friedrich Renken and Motje Friederike Gobkea. Friedrichs born. After completing school, he decided to pursue a career as a local civil servant . He joined the administration of the town of Rüstringen, which had just been formed from the merger of the Jade communities of Heppens , Bant and Neuende , and worked here in various departments - from the registry to the education office. At the age of 26 he became senior secretary and head of department. After the First World War he left the administration and opened a tea import shop in Rüstringen.

When the Reich Party of German Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises , or Business Party for short , was launched in 1928 , Renken founded a local branch of this party in Wilhelmshaven, for which he was elected to the Wilhelmshaven Citizens Committee in autumn 1929. He was one of the spokesmen for the criticism of the city administration's mixed-economy ventures, especially of the Wilhelmshaven-Rüstringer-Industriehafen- und Lagerhausgesellschaft (WRIHALA), which had little success in attempts to set up private companies in the Jade cities.

After the rapid decline of the Business Party , which in 1930 with 401 votes did not even reach half the votes of the previous year, Renken joined the NSDAP faction in autumn 1930 , which he was nominated as senator in 1931 . However, the district president in Aurich initially rejected his confirmation and did not agree to the proposal until 1932. On June 22, 1933, Renken took over provisional management of the city ​​administration of Wilhelmshaven in the course of the co-ordination of the local government and after the previous mayor Emil Bartelt was on leave . He was confirmed as Lord Mayor on December 20, 1933 and sworn in in March 1934. Renken tried to come to an understanding with the city of Rüstringen about various measures in the areas of economy, school operations and welfare expenditure, but in political practice there was a tough competition with the also National Socialist Mayor of Rüstringen, Gustav Nutzhorns . This competition meant that neither of the two was appointed mayor of the new city of Wilhelmshaven in 1937, which was created on April 1, 1937 as part of the Greater Hamburg Act from the amalgamation of the Prussian Wilhelmshaven and the Oldenburgian Rüstringen.

Renken was appointed Lord Mayor of Emden on September 1, 1937, and held this office until the end of the Second World War in May 1945. After the end of the war he returned to Wilhelmshaven and headed the tea import company Carl-Heinrich Renken & Sohn as senior partner until his death.

family

Renken was married to Annaliese born in Kötzschenbroda near Dresden . Zschoche (born January 25, 1905), the couple had a son.

literature

• Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon - Second Volume -, Brune Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Wilhelmshaven 1987, p. 606.
• Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 591 f.
• Martin Tielke (Ed.): Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland - fourth volume -, Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebs-GmbH, Aurich 2007, ISBN 3-932206-62-2 , p. 355 ff.

Web links

• Carl Heinrich Renken in: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland IV, pp. 355–357 (with illustration).
• Carl-Heinrich Renken in: Stadtinfo Wilhelmshaven (with illustration).