Clemens Freiherr von Oer

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Clemens Freiherr von Oer (born August 25, 1895 in Legden , † August 8, 1976 in Schlangenbad ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician ( center , CDU ).

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Clemens Freiherr von Oer comes from the old Westphalian noble family Oer des Vestes Recklinghausen . Born as the son of the married couple Adolf Hubertus Maria Freiherr von Oer and Anna Countess Droste Vischering , Clemens grew up in Haus Egelborg . At the Nepomuceum in Coesfeld he graduated from high school in 1914 and was then called up for military service and seriously wounded as a lieutenant in the cuirassier regiment "von Driesen" (Westphalian) No. 4 in Russia. He began studying law and political science in Münster. He became a government trainee in the summer of 1918. In 1921 he was an assessor at the “Inter-Allied Government and Plebiscite Commission” for Upper Silesia in Beuthen and Gleiwitz, then worked for a year in the antechamber of the Reich Finance Minister. From 1931 to 1935 he was employed at the Burgsteinfurt tax office.

Von Oer was a member of the German Center Party and was elected on April 3, 1933 by the Münster city council as an honorary city councilor. He refused to join the NSDAP , with the result that he resigned from civil service on November 1, 1935. He then helped his father manage the property.

The British military government asked him - he was completely unencumbered and an experienced administrator - to take over the office of provisional district administrator. On April 23, 1945, the military government announced his appointment. After the return of District Administrator Felix Sümmermann , he was appointed District President in Münster by Upper President Rudolf Amelunxen . On October 20, 1946, the administration was reclassified and the provincial government for Westphalia was dissolved when the state of North Rhine-Westphalia was established . Von Oer took care of the administration of his estate from then on. In local politics he was still active as a CDU member of the Legden office and as a member of the district council from 1946 to 1948 and from 1956 to 1964.

family

Von Oer had married Wilhelmine Freiin von Vittinghoff called Schell (1901–1974) on July 15, 1926 . The marriage resulted in two sons and two daughters:

  • Adolf (1927–2018) ⚭ 1968 Rosa Maria Freiin von Haxthausen (1927–2015)
  • Maria-Anna (* 1927) ⚭ 1951 Wolfgang Graf von Plettenberg (1922–2012)
  • Rudolfine (1930–2019), professor of history and didactics
  • Antonius (* 1932), adopted Count von Mirbach-Harff ⚭ 1976 Elisabeth Countess von und zu Westerholt and Gysenberg (* 1950)

Honors

literature

  • Christine Mildner: Clemens Freiherr von Oer (1895–1976), District President . In: Ingeborg Höting, Ludger Kremer, Timothy Sodmann (eds.): Westmünsterländische Biografien , Vol. 1. Achterland Verlagscompagnie, Bredevoort and Vreden 2015, ISBN 978-3-933377-24-1 , pp. 319–322.
  • Rudolfine Freiin von Oer: The imprisonment of Clemens Freiherr von Oer. What cannot be read in Gestapo files . In: Westmünsterland , vol. 2009, pp. 152–154.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Karlheinz Gördes (Red.): "... the best of the cities and the flat country at any time ..." From the development and work of the Westmünsterland district of Borken . District Borken, Borken 1995, ISBN 3-927851-70-1 , p. 344 f.
personal data
SURNAME Oer, Clemens Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and politician (center, CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Legden
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1976
Place of death Snake bath