Felix Seulen

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Felix Ernst Seulen (born August 18, 1900 in Aachen ; † December 30, 1958 in Davos ) was a Prussian district administrator in the Eupen district from 1940 to 1945 and, after the Second World War, from 1954 to 1958, the district director of the Aachen district .

Life

Origin and education

As the son of the teacher Felix Seulen and his wife Juliana, nee Mattar, Felix Ernst Seulen grew up in Aachen. He also visited the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium from which he and passing the final examination lacked the 1919th He then studied at the universities in Tübingen , where he had been a member of the Catholic student association AV Guestfalia Tübingen since 1919 , and Bonn law and political science . After being appointed court trainee (February 8, 1922), he initially found employment in the district office of the Osthavelland district in Nauen (August 18, 1922 government trainee). As a result, Seulen was deputy of the district administrator of the Wipperfürth district from 1923 and then of the mayor of Honnef (acting mayor) before he returned to the district office of Nauen in 1925. In the same year he was also appointed government assessor (April 25, 1925). From September 15, 1926, Seulen belonged to the Prussian government in his hometown of Aachen, from where he was on leave from March 15 to July 14, 1928 for “informational employment” in Austria. 1927 Felix Seulen joined the Center Party in, but left it in 1933 in the seizure of power by the Nazis again.

Career

Returning from Austria to the Aachen government, Felix Seulen was promoted to the government council on June 1, 1933 . Shortly after the start of the western campaign and the accompanying occupation of the Belgian territories around Eupen and Malmedy since 1919, the district of Eupen was reintegrated into the German Reich as a district and, as before, assigned to the administrative district of Aachen. On the part of his employer, he was initially temporarily assigned to him on May 22, 1940 and definitively on September 1, 1941, the administration of the district of Eupen, which he was to exercise until the end of the war. At the request of the military commander, Seulen resumed official business for the administration of the Eupen district based in Burg-Reuland on January 13, 1945 . In the course of his service in Eupen, Seulen took over various representations of the district administrators in Jülich and Monschau , and in particular in Malmedy, whose district administrator he represented from 1943 to September 1944. With the relapse of the Eupen district to liberated Belgium, Felix Seulen was interned there from 1945 to 1947. After his return to Germany, he was reinstated in his previous position as a member of the government in Aachen on February 2, 1951 (municipal department). In 1952 he received his appointment to the upper government council, then moved to the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia on May 15, 1953 under appointment to the ministerial council , before he was elected upper district director of the district of Aachen on April 6, 1954. Taking up his post on May 10, 1954, Seulen died on duty.

Felix Seulen belonged to several committees of the district council of North Rhine-Westphalia , for example from 1955 the water committee, whose chairman until 1962 he was elected in 1958. Also from 1955 to 1957 as a deputy member of the Economic and Transport Committee and from 1957 to 1958 of the Building Committee, the Health Committee and the Constitutional Committee. In addition, from 1956 to 1958 he was a deputy member of the water committee at the Rhineland State Planning Association and was a member of the joint personnel committee during the same period.

family

The Catholic Felix Ernst Seulen married on May 24, 1929 in Aachen Maria Kloeser (born on March 3, 1900 in Aachen), a daughter of the businessman Wilhelm Kloeser and his wife Maria, née Duyssings. The Seulen couple had four children together.

literature

  • District of Aachen (Ed.): 150 years of the district of Aachen. Aachen 1966, p. 61 (picture).
  • District Assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): Documentation on the district administrators and senior district directors in North Rhine-Westphalia 1845–1991. Knipping, Düsseldorf 1992, pp. 748 and 792.
  • Wilhelm Leopold Janssen , Eduard Arens: History of the Club Aachener Casino . Aachen 1937 (2nd edition, edited by Elisabeth Janssen and Felix Kuetgens , 1964; 3rd edition, Aachen 2000), No. 1091.
  • Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 745 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Horst Romeyk: The leading state and communal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945.
  2. ↑ Source: Club Aachener Casino: Born on May 2, 1868 in Aachen; died on October 17, 1924 there.
  3. ↑ Source: Club Aachener Casino: Born on July 14, 1866 in Eupen; died on May 31, 1933 in Aachen.
  4. ^ A b c Wilhelm Leopold Janssen, Eduard Arens : History of the Club Aachener Casino.
  5. ↑ CV complete directory 1961, p. 879.
  6. ↑ a b c District Assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Documentation on the district administrators and senior district directors in North Rhine-Westphalia 1845–1991. Knipping, Düsseldorf 1992, p. 748
  7. ^ Martin R. Schärer: German annexation policy in the west. The reintegration of Eupen-Malmedy in World War II. Lang et al., Bern 1975, ISBN 3-261-02192-6 , p. 54. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  8. ^ Source Club Aachener Casino: Born on May 25, 1860 in Stolberg; died on May 13, 1902 in Aachen.
  9. ^ Source Club Aachener Casino: Born on June 8th, 1866 in Bergen Terblyt / Netherlands; died on March 11, 1933 in Aachen.
personal data
SURNAME Seulen, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seulen, Felix Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German district administrator and senior district director
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1958
Place of death Davos