Conrad Delius (District Administrator)

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Conrad [also: Konrad] Wilhelm Anton Heinrich Delius (born  February 27, 1881 in Koblenz , † August 15, 1945 in Allenbach (Hilchenbach) , district of Siegen) was a German administrative lawyer in the service of Prussia. During the Weimar Republic he was district administrator of the Gelnhausen district for 14 years .

Life

Delius was the son of the chief building officer Franz Theodor Oscar Delius and Cäcilie Elsbeth, born. Dutschke. He studied law at the University of Jena and after his legal traineeship (1903 court trainee , 1906 government trainee ) passed the state examination in 1908 , after which he was initially a government assessor at the Hanover police headquarters . In 1914 he was Councilor at the Regional Council in Erfurt, by decree of April 30, 1919, he was (representation of) the administration of the district office in Gelnhausen transmitted. After the final resignation of his predecessor, Count Wartensleben, he was appointed district administrator of the Gelnhausen district on November 3, 1919 at the suggestion of the Gelnhausen district council. In 1920 he was a member of the Kassel municipal parliament and the provincial parliament of the Hesse-Nassau province .

In his function as district administrator, Delius was also chairman of the supervisory board and deputy director of Spessartbahn AG. Delius saw himself rather in the tradition of the Prussian administrative officer, who always behaved cautiously and tolerantly in the political field and was not involved in party politics. After the local elections on March 8, 1933, the district leader of the NSDAP and later successor in the office of district administrator, Wilhelm Kausemann, wanted to push through the new course of National Socialism as quickly as possible. Five district council members sent the district president in Kassel and the Prussian interior minister urgent telegrams demanding the removal of district administrator Delius, because he no longer had the trust of the population. This was followed four weeks later by another telegram - this time signed by all the district committee members - with the information that District Administrator Delius had resigned voluntarily. The district committee asked the ministry “Pg. Kausemann "as acting district administrator" because only he can guarantee that "peace and order will be maintained". The Prussian authorities then appointed Wilhelm Kausemann as the new district administrator. Many are said to have made no secret of the fact that they disapproved of this approach.

After a short leave of absence, Delius was transferred to the police headquarters in Cologne as a senior government councilor. He stayed there and became government director and police vice-president in November 1941. On October 30, 1944, he resigned from the public service as incapacitated .

Delius was married to Frieda, geb. Schweitzer (born December 31, 1879 in Bielefeld, † May 31, 1946 in Siegen), who had three children from her first marriage. Homeless after a heavy bombing raid, the family sought refuge in Siegerland. While escaping, Delius contracted pneumonia, from which he finally died on August 18, 1945.

literature

  • Thomas Klein : Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867 to 1945 (= sources and research on Hessian history. Vol. 70), Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt, Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt / Marburg 1988, ISBN 3884431595 , p. 110.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 104.
  • Dieter Pelda: The members of the Prussian Communal Parliament in Kassel 1867-1933 (= Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. Vol. 22 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 8). Elwert, Marburg 1999, ISBN 3-7708-1129-1 , p. 36.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Delius, Conrad Wilhelm Anton Heinrich. Hessian biography. (As of April 12, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 104.
  3. ^ Georg Rösch: Conrad Delius - an old school official. In: 150 Years of the Gelnhausen District - Between Vogelsberg and Spessart, Heimat-Jahrbuch des Gelnhausen District 1971, District Committee of the Gelnhausen District (Ed.) 1970 p. 49
personal data
SURNAME Delius, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Delius, Konrad; Delius, Conrad Wilhelm Anton Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1945
Place of death Allenbach (Hilchenbach) , Siegen district