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Carl Nacken (born February 10, 1894 in Langensalza ; † June 6, 1962 in Munster ) was a German teacher and district administrator and director of the State Insurance Institution of Westphalia.

Life

Carl Nacken attended secondary school in Langensalza (1900-1908) and the city. Preparation institute in Sömmerda (1908–1914). After training at the Prussian teacher training college in Mühlhausen, he passed the teacher exam in 1914 and worked as a teacher in Gerterode from November 10, 1914 to November 22, 1914. He was drafted into military service on November 23, 1914 and did not return home until January 1919.

From February 1919 until his state examination in 1922 he was a teacher in his hometown of Langensalza. From April 1922 to April 1930 he was a teacher in Dortmund, then until September 1933 principal at the (Free) Union School and then at the Diesterweg School in Dortmund-Brackel.

Carl Nacken decreed that members of the senior class I wore uniformed blue coats with a belt in the “falcon” style, which were donated on the initiative of Nacken. Many pupils still belonged to the social democratic “Nestfalken” or “Kinderfreunde” (10-14 years old). Nacken tried to maintain this tradition until 1944 together with Franz Klupsch and through contacts with the Berlin Social Democrats around Wilhelm Leuschner and Julius Leber . Shortly before the Nazis were brought into line in 1933, Nacken and around 50 “Marxists and Jews” were severely mistreated at night by the SA and SS .

From November 15, 1933 to February 28, 1943, Carl Nacken was District Director of Allianz Life Insurance . From August 25 to February 1940 he was committed to military service . After working for the official bank, he was director of Viktoria Lebensversicherung from March 1, 1943 to June 25, 1945 .

Immediately after the end of the war, Carl Nacken was district administrator of the Wittgenstein district from June 26, 1945 to February 26, 1946 , then until April 5, 1946, until a rift with the British military authorities, he was chief district director in Wittgenstein.

From April 8, 1947 to February 29, 1948 he was a senior employee of the LVA Westphalia . On March 1, 1948, he was appointed regional councilor with the task of rebuilding the national insurance company. From 1950 he was head of finance at the LVA with responsibility for the promotion of social housing construction and reconstruction, the establishment of LVA-owned health facilities such as the Westfalenheim in Bad Ems and the Bad Salzuflen health clinic. From December 1, 1954 until his retirement on February 28, 1959, Carl Nacken was director of the State Insurance Institution of Westphalia.

Carl Nacken was a Protestant and married. There were two sons from the marriage.

politics

Carl Nacken was a member of the SPD . Since November 9, 1952, he was a member of the city council of Münster and a member of thirteen committees, including: Finance Committee (Chair), Allocation Committee (Chair), Culture Committee (Deputy Chair), Distribution Committee (Deputy Chair), Main Committee. From 1960 to 1962 he was a member of the Landscape Assembly for the City of Münster (SPD).

He was head of the finance committee in the Association of German Pension Insurance Institutions in Frankfurt / Main and a member of the supervisory board of Westfälisch-Lippische Heimstätte and the housing company “Neue Heimat”.

Honors

• Large Federal Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1961)

literature

• Häming, Josef: The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (Westphalian sources and archive directories, vol. 2), Münster 1978, pp. 466–467 (No. 1110)
• Högl, Günter (Ed.): “Resistance and persecution in Dortmund 1933 - 1945” - catalog for the permanent exhibition of the city archive in the Steinwache memorial, Dortmund 1992, p. 59, 142 [with pictures]
• Social Democratic Party of Germany, Münster sub-district (Ed.): 1878–2003 125 years of the SPD in Münster, Münster 2003, p. 73
• Siegen-Wittgenstein district, old registry, Carl Nacken personnel file
• City of Bad Berleburg v. April 28, 2004
• StadtA Münster, personality collection

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Siegen-Wittgenstein district archive: information from November 26, 2015
2. ↑ ^{a b} Högl, Günter (ed.): “Resistance and persecution in Dortmund 1933 - 1945” - catalog for the permanent exhibition of the city archive in the Steinwache memorial, Dortmund 1992, p. 59, 142

predecessor	Office	successor
Wendland	District Administrator of the Wittgenstein District 1945–1946	Reinhold Adolf Liebetanz (substitute; period of municipal dual leadership 1946 to 1974)