Cuno Raabe

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cuno Raabe on an election poster for the state elections in Hesse in 1958

Cuno Raabe (born May 5, 1888 in Fulda ; † May 3, 1971 in Gersfeld (Rhön) ) was a German politician ( center , CDU ) and in the resistance against National Socialism .

Life

Cuno Raabe came from a Catholic, upper-class family . Raabe became a member of the Center Party while studying law in Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich and Marburg . In 1907 he became a member of the Catholic student association VKDSt Rhenania Marburg . After his doctorate and the second state examination (1914), Raabe, who was retired as not fit for military service and thus did not have to take part in the First World War as a soldier , worked in the administration of Berlin. There he became a member of the student association KDStV Bavaria Berlin and in 1920 municipal councilor for culture and social affairs. As a member of the Provincial Parliament of East Prussia from 1925 to 1926, he became friends with Carl Friedrich Goerdeler in the early 1920s .

In 1926 Raabe became mayor of Hagen . In 1933 the city administration under his leadership banned one after the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists with the addition: Forbidden for Jews and Jesuits! campaign event advertised by Joseph Goebbels . The NSDAP's suggestion to delete the words and Jesuits was not enough for him. The event remained banned. As early as April 1933, Raabe was taken into " protective custody " by the Gestapo and released from civil servant status in August. The pretext was the allegation that he was guilty of breach of trust as chairman of the board of directors of the local transport company . The criminal proceedings ended in an acquittal . After that, Raabe and his family had to rely on the support of relatives. Not until 1938 did he find a job with a fuel distributor in Königsberg .

As early as 1934, Cuno Raabe joined the resistance group around Goerdeler. If the coup attempt of July 20, 1944 was successful, he was designated as Reich Minister of Transport . After the attempt was unsuccessful, he was put out to be wanted and charged before the “ People's Court ” . In November 1944 he was arrested in Königsberg. His criminal record was burned in a bomb attack on Berlin. Probably because, but perhaps also because Hitler wanted to postpone the settlement with the Catholic Church and its supporters until after the so-called final victory , Cuno Raabe escaped the death sentence and execution. He was released from solitary confinement in the Reich Main Security Office in 1945 when the Soviet troops marched in .

In September 1945 Raabe began to build the CDU in Hesse and Franconia . In 1946 he became chairman of the Fulda regional group. From 1946 to 1956 he was Lord Mayor of his native Fulda and at the same time a member of the Hessian state parliament and its vice-president until 1952 . After retiring from political life (1962), his hometown granted him honorary citizenship . Cuno Raabe died during a stay at a spa.

Raabe owes the best representation of the 600-year development of Königsberg's economy to this day.

Honors

Relief in the Hagen Cuno settlement (named after Willi Cuno ) with a relief caricature by Hans Dorn of the then mayor Cuno Raabe

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ printed in Königsberger Bürgerbrief 88 (2016), pp. 12-17.
personal data
SURNAME Raabe, Cuno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center, CDU), Member of the State Parliament and Mayor of Hagen and Fulda
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda
DATE OF DEATH 3rd May 1971
Place of death Gersfeld (Rhoen)