Christian Ulrich (District Administrator)

Christian Ulrich (* 1894 in Ahrweiler , † 1969 ibid) was a German district administrator in the Ahrweiler district and mayor of Ahrweiler.

Life and origin

Ulrich, who was born in Ahrweiler and grew up there, embarked on a civil service career after completing his schooling and was sworn in as a civil servant during the German Empire . From 1928 to 1933 he was a member of the Ahrweiler city council. When the United States Army marched into Bad Neuenahr on March 8, 1945 shortly before the end of the Second World War and the incumbent District Administrator Peter Simmer had already left the Ahrweiler district at around 4:00 a.m., Christian Ulrich, who was never a member of the NSDAP, became district inspector was entrusted with the official business as district administrator of the district of Ahrweiler. Ulrich had been the official district administrator since March 15, 1945, his certificate of appointment was signed by Captain Edmund H. Henry as a representative of the American military government, which had set up their occupation district, the so-called Detachment I-15-G-2 , in Ahrweiler .

Since taking office, Ulrich was mainly concerned with supplying the local population with food, procuring goods and distributing them. He also tried to moderate requisitions from the occupying powers. Furthermore, he was concerned about the repair of war damage, the restoration of the traffic system, a working administration, as well as a courier service to the mayors in the district, with whom he ultimately met weekly. In order to prepare the population for the next winter, the Ahr Valley Railway was put back into operation during his tenure so that trains with briquettes could run into the district area. Ulrich, who was also a member of the district councilors' conference, was arrested on June 26, 1945 by the French occupying forces, on the pretext that he had disregarded orders and tolerated elections from official committees, and placed under Aresst for a week in the district cellar. His service ended on July 31, 1945 and he had to report daily until October 15 of the current year. From November 1945 he worked as a managing official in Zell on the Moselle , but he wanted to return to the Ahr valley .

Christian-Ulrich-Strasse in Ahrweiler

After the position of mayor in Ahrweiler became vacant, he applied and was finally elected on February 17, 1949 by the Ahrweiler city council as the full-time mayor of Ahrweiler. In the following years he devoted himself again to the reconstruction of the city, as well as the procurement of housing for the displaced. Thanks to special financing initiated by him, many citizens of Ahrweiler were able to rebuild their houses that had been destroyed in the war. As a founding member of the Heimatverein “Alt-Ahrweiler” e. V. he was instrumental in the reconstruction of the Ahr gate in Ahrweiler, which was destroyed in the war . In 1957 he was re-elected as mayor of Ahrweiler and from 1956 to 1960 the Christian Democrat represented the district council of Ahrweiler as a member. After Ulrich retired in 1959 after more than 50 years of administrative work, he wrote articles on local history for the home yearbook of the Ahrweiler district before he died in 1969. In his honor, the city of Ahrweiler named Christian-Ulrich-Straße in a new building area in Ahrweiler after him at the beginning of the 1990s.

Publications

• The non-profit housing association m. b. H. Ahrweiler ,
• Rudolf Edler von Groote, life picture of an Ahrweiler district administrator
• This is what our district administration looked like 50 years ago
• The vineyard development community "Ahrtal"

Web links

• Entry on Christian Ulrich in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

1. ^ The administration of the Ahrweiler district in the first post-war years, by Dr. med. G. Habighorst, MdL, Ahrweiler, In :kreis-ahrweiler.de (accessed on August 6, 2020)
2. ↑ 75 years ago in the district house, Christian Ulrich is the almost forgotten district administrator of Ahrweiler, by Hildegard Ginzler, July 16, 2020, In: General-Anzeiger (accessed on August 6, 2020)
3. ↑ Ancestral gallery of the district chiefs in the district building is complete, District Administrator Dr. Pföhler added the District Administrator Ulrich likeness to the collection, In :kreis-ahrweiler.de (accessed on August 6, 2020)
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Christian Ulrich, The zero hour was his time, by Günther Schmitt, Heimatjahrbuch 2003, In :kreis-ahrweiler.de (accessed on August 6, 2020)
5. ↑ The non-profit housing association m. b. H. Ahrweiler, from Mayor Chr. Ulrich, from Mayor Chr. Ulrich, Heimatjahrbuch des Kreises Ahrweiler 1953, p. 98, In :kreis-ahrweiler.de (accessed on August 6, 2020)
6. ↑ Rudolf Edler von Groote, picture of an Ahrweiler district administrator, by Christian Ulrich, Heimatjahrbuch des Kreis Ahrweiler 1964, p. 47, In :kreis-ahrweiler.de (accessed on 6 August 2020)
7. ↑ This is what our district administration looked like 50 years ago, by Christian Ulrich, Heimatjahrbuch des Kreis Ahrweiler 1966, p. 34, In :kreis-ahrweiler.de (accessed on August 6, 2020)
8. ^ The vineyard development community "Ahrtal", by Christian Ulrich, Heimatjahrbuch des Kreises Ahrweiler 1966, p. 121, In :kreis-ahrweiler.de (accessed on August 6, 2020)