Edmund Pnicck

Edmund Anton Pnicck (born February 19, 1883 in Bad Kreuznach , † April 11, 1954 in Eltville ) was a German politician ( center ).

Life

Pnicck was the son of head gardener Matthias Pnicck (born February 20, 1847 in Drobnin; † January 15, 1936 in Kirchheimbolanden) and his wife Katharina nee Faust (born May 27, 1844 in Johannisberg; † August 1, 1914 in Bad Kreuznach). Pnicck, who was a Catholic denomination, married on September 7, 1910 in Polch Anna Geishecker (* July 8, 1888 in Polch; † May 29, 1975 in Erbach / Rheingau), the daughter of the innkeeper and farmer Johann Geishecker (1847–1928 ).

He attended elementary and secondary school from 1889 to 1900 and then trained with the city and police administration in Bad Kreuznach. In 1902/1903 he did his military service as a one-year volunteer in Wiesbaden. In 1908 he became city secretary in Neuerburg (Bitburg district) and then municipal secretary in Polch ,

In July 1911 he was elected mayor of the municipality of Elz (Limburg district). From September 1918 to November 1918 he was mayor of Niederjeutz (Lorraine). After the occupation of Alsace-Lorraine in 1918, he worked in the district administration in Limburg.

From March to July 1919 he was acting mayor and then regular mayor of Lorch am Rhein . The Allied occupation of the Rhineland led to a historical curiosity there, the Free State of Bottleneck . Pnicck was appointed deputy to District Administrator Robert Büchting and in fact head of administration of the Free State of Bottleneck.

From 1924 to 1933 he was a member of the Nassau Municipal Parliament and the Provincial Parliament of the Hesse-Nassau Province for the Rheingau district (1924, initially as a replacement for the late Jakob Gräf ) . In the communal parliament he was chairman of the audit committee and a member of the finance, elders, civil servants and submissions committee. He was a member of the district committee (as a deputy or as a full member), the state committee (deputy) and the board of directors of Nassauische Landesbank .

From 1926 to 1943 he was a member of the district committee of the Rheingau district . After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he remained, despite his party affiliation as mayor and district committee member in office. In September 1945, he resigned mayor at the request of the US military government.

After the local elections in Hesse in 1946 , he became mayor of Eltville am Rhein in October 1946 and resigned from this office in 1952.

He was made an honorary citizen of Lorch.

Works

• The Free State bottleneck. The grotesque structure of the occupation (1924?)

literature

• Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the historical commission for Nassau. 71 = prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , p. 233.
• Bermejo, Exposed to Persecution - Hessian Parliamentarians in the Nazi Era, Wiesbaden 2016, No. 59

Web links

• Pnicck, Edmund in the Hessian Biography