Edwin Renatus Hasenjaeger
Edwin Renatus Hasenjaeger (born October 27, 1888 in Cammin , † June 5, 1972 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German local politician ( DNVP , NSDAP , non-party). He was successively Lord Mayor of the cities of Stolp , Rheydt and Mülheim an der Ruhr, and also briefly a member of the Reichstag .
Life and accomplishments
Hasenjaeger attended grammar school in Greifswald and then studied law at the University of Bonn and the University of Greifswald . This was followed by a legal clerkship with stations at the Barth District Court and the Greifswald District Court . During World War I , Hasenjaeger served as a reserve officer in the telegraph intelligence force, most recently as captain of the reserve. After the First World War he finished his legal traineeship.
Hasenjaeger opted for local government. From May 1, 1920 he was an alderman in the city administration of Szczecin . In April 1925 he became mayor of Stolp . Hasenjaeger was a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP), in the 7th electoral period (1932-1933) he sat for the DNVP in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic . Hasenjaeger was also a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Pomerania .
Even after the seizure of power by the Nazi Party he led his office as mayor according to objective criteria further; In March 1933 he prevented SA attacks on Jewish businesses in Stolp by the city police . As a result, he was given leave of absence in May 1933 and then retired on the basis of the so-called law to restore the civil service . On the initiative of Gauleiter Franz Schwede-Coburg , the Stettin public prosecutor Richard Langeheine was appointed as his successor on November 1, 1933 .
Hasenjaeger's reputation as an outstanding administrative specialist led to the fact that he was appointed Lord Mayor of the newly formed city of Rheydt on August 1, 1933 . The city of Rheydt emerged from the separation of the previous city of Gladbach-Rheydt .
On the advice of Emil Kirdorf and Fritz Thyssen , Hasenjaeger was appointed Lord Mayor of Mülheim an der Ruhr on June 2, 1936 . He was also successful there. He succeeded in arranging the city's finances within a short time. On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP. During the war he managed to maintain the administration of the city, the local infrastructure and the supply of the population, so that on April 11, 1945 he was able to hand the city over to the US Army in relatively good condition.
Hasenjaeger spent the American victorious power in a camp in Attichy in France. He was released from prison on September 16, 1945 and reinstated as Lord Mayor of Mülheim on October 11, 1945. At the end of April 1946 he resigned because his policy had met resistance from the SPD and KPD in the newly formed city council . Among other things, Hasenjaeger's efforts to reintroduce the Christian denominational schools that had been abolished in the Nazi state at the end of 1945 met with resistance from these parties.
Hasenjaeger was considered a conscientious and meticulous administration specialist. Politically, he was conservative. In terms of content, he was convinced of the Prussian constitutional monarchy, but could only work as a municipal official under other political systems.
His son Gisbert Hasenjaeger was a professor of mathematical logic in Münster and Bonn.
literature
- Working group of local history associations in Mülheim an der Ruhr (Hrsg.): Historically significant personalities of the city of Mülheim ad Ruhr. Mülheim an der Ruhr 1983, pp. 25-26.
- Jens Roepstorff: Edwin Hasenjaeger - Portrait of a Lord Mayor in difficult times . In: Mülheim yearbook. 2004, pp. 269-273.
- Jens Roepstorff: Edwin Renatus Hasenjaeger as Lord Mayor in Stolp and Mülheim. In: The Pommersche Zeitung. No. 32/2008, pp. 10-11.
Other sources
- City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, holdings 1615 (Edwin Hasenjaeger estate)
Web links
- Edwin Renatus Hasenjaeger in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Mülheim's Lord Mayor Edwin Hasenjaeger
Footnotes
- Jump up in the woods . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1965, pp. 52 ( online ).
Municipal director: Johann Hermann Voerster (1808–1813)
Mayor: Johann Heinrich Michels (1813–1816) | Lambert Maubach (1816–1821) | Franz Kniffler (1822) | Christian Weuste ( 1822–1847) | Friedrich Fritsch (1847–1851) | Wilhelm Oechelhäuser (1852–1856) | Karl Obertüschen (1857–1873) | Heinrich Bang (1873–1878) | Karl von Bock and Polach (1879–1895)
Lord Mayor: Karl von Bock and Polach (1895–1902) | Paul Lembke (1904–1928) | Alfred Schmidt (1928–1933) | Wilhelm Maerz (1933–1936) | Edwin Hasenjaeger (1936–1945) | Wilhelm Diederichs (1946–1948) | Heinrich Thöne (1948–1969) | Heinz Hager (1969–1974) | Dieter from Siepen (1974–1982) | Eleonore Güllenstern (1982–1994) | Hans-Georg Specht (1994–1999) | Jens Baganz (1999–2002) | Dagmar Mühlenfeld (2003–2015) | Ulrich Scholten (since 2015)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hasenjaeger, Edwin Renatus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (DNVP, NSDAP, non-party), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cammin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th June 1972 |
| Place of death | Mülheim an der Ruhr |