Eduard Kenkel

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Eduard Kenkel (born June 24, 1876 in Tilsit , † 1945 near Eckernförde ) was a German journalist and politician ( DNVP ).

Life

After attending the village school, Kenkel received private lessons. He went through the preparatory institute and attended the evangelical preacher and missionary seminar in Berlin . Encouraged by Adolf Stöcker and Friedrich Naumann , he became a member of the Christian Social Party in 1894 . He worked as a factory worker in Berlin for a year, became an editor and worked as a proofreader, reporter and in commercial work for Berlin and Dresden newspaper publishers, most recently in a managerial position.

When at the beginning of the First World War, Russian armies in East Prussia invaded, located Kenkel participated in the East Prussian refugees. From 1914 to 1915 he was honorary managing director of the Society of Friends of East Prussian Refugees and first chairman of the committee of East Prussian refugees. He was also the organizer of the revanchist “East Prussian assemblies” in Berlin. In three years he published the magazine Ostpreußische Heimat . In 1916 he was appointed press chief in the war usury office. After the November Revolution he resigned from civil service. In the following period he published counter-revolutionary writings.

During the Weimar Republic in 1919 in Königsberg he was one of the founders of the German National People's Party and became a board member of the DNVP Regional Association of Prussia. He was the city ​​councilor of East Prussia's provincial capital. From January 1919 to 1921 and from 1927 to the end of 1931 he was editor-in-chief of the Ostpreussische Zeitung . He was a permanent contributor to national newspapers and had been a member of the board of the Association of the East Prussian Press since 1920 . From 1924 to 1925 he published the Altpreußisches Wochenblatt . He interrupted his journalistic activities from March 1921 to October 1924, when he acted as a press advisor for the East Prussian companies of the Stinnes Group and as authorized representative for the East Prussian Machine Company .

Kenkel was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament in December 1924 , to which he belonged without interruption until the body was dissolved on October 14, 1933. In parliament he represented constituency 1 (Königsberg).

Kenkel was a Freemason and from 1919 a member of the Königsberg Lodge Zum Todtenkopf and Phoenix .

literature

  • Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928. P. 544.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
  2. ↑ Chronicle of the Johannisloge "Zum Todtenkopfe und Phönix". Berlin 2009, self-published by the Lodge "Zum Todtenkopf und Phoenix"
personal data
SURNAME Kenkel, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (DNVP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Tilsit
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Eckernförde