Franz Schleusener

Franz Karl Rudolf Schleusener (born December 28, 1876 in Sellnow , Arnswalde district , Prussia , † around April 3, 1950 in Potsdam ) was a German politician ( DDP , CDU ).

Life

Schleusener was born the son of a landowner . After studying law , he was a trainee lawyer at the Stettin Higher Regional Court from 1900 , from 1904 a court assessor at the Stettin Regional Court and then a lawyer . On January 1, 1908, he joined the local government of the city of Szczecin. In the meantime worked as the second mayor in Lissa , he became city ​​councilor ( department head ) in Szczecin in 1911 .

On June 12, 1914, 75% of the city council elected him from 69 applications for a term of 12 years as First Mayor of Brandenburg (Havel) ; he was appointed mayor by the emperor in 1915 . In 1914 he became a member of the manor house in the Prussian state parliament by royal decree , and in 1916 he was elected to the Brandenburg provincial parliament.

The First World War began shortly after he took office on August 2, 1914 . During this time Schleusener had to fight for the security of the food supply, which he also tried to secure by buying potatoes centrally and selling them at fixed prices. He documented the conditions in the city in the war years through annually published overviews of the work of the Brandenburg (Havel) city administration. His initial enthusiasm for the war gave way to the recognition of signs of exhaustion in the country since mid-1917. Although he rejected political upheavals as irresponsible, he stayed at his post during the November Revolution of 1918 out of responsibility for security and order and also let him find joint action with the Social Democrats .

In 1920 Franz Schleusener was appointed to the civil service as president of the Potsdam administrative region . From 1924 he was State Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of Finance , which he headed from July 21 to October 29 as Reich Commissioner of the first appointed government of Franz von Papen . In 1933 the National Socialists removed him from all offices. During this time until 1933 he was a member of the German Democratic Party . From 1933 he worked as a lawyer and notary in Berlin .

After the Second World War , Schleusener took part in building up the administration. On October 1, 1945, he succeeded Georg Remak , the only representative of the bourgeois parties at the top of the administration, as the fourth vice-president of the provincial administration of Brandenburg , and was given responsibility for finance and health. At the end of November 1945 he also joined the Brandenburg CDU , for which he sat after the election on September 15, 1946 as parliamentary group leader in the city ​​council in Potsdam. In this position, together with Erwin Köhler , he led negotiations with the SED for the CDU together with the LDP for the election of Potsdam's mayor and magistrate. Since he, as in Brandenburg (Havel), rejected radical aspirations with his liberal-democratic outlook, he only signed the ordinance on land reform after lengthy disputes and, because of ongoing political differences, left the state administration at the end of 1946 and was subsequently again working as a lawyer and notary in Potsdam. He retained the mandate he had won on October 20, 1946, and was chairman of the Legal and Constitutional Committee.

Since the CDU refused to draw up a uniform list for the elections to the 3rd German People's Congress in May 1949, the SED increased its attacks on CDU functionaries. On March 29, 1950, Franz Schleusener was arrested by the NKVD and the K5 department and imprisoned in the Potsdam police prison. He died of ill-treatment in detention and during questioning ; it was outwardly alleged that he had committed suicide.

In Brandenburg an der Havel , a street in the Hohenstücke district has been named after him since the early 1990s.

literature

• Sigrid Grabner , Hendrik Rödner, Thomas Wernicke (eds.): Potsdam 1945–1989. Between adaptation and rebellion . Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, Potsdam 1999, ISBN 3-932502-17-5 , p. 21-27 .
• Klaus Heß: Franz Schleusener - Lord Mayor . In: Marcus Alert, Wolfgang Kusior (Ed.): 45 well-known Brandenburger . Neddermeyer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-933254-34-5 .
• Manfred Agethen:  Schleusener, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 69 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Information office of the provincial administration of Mark Brandenburg 1946 A year of probation 2nd extended edition issue 2 page 37ff.

Footnotes

1. ↑ gonschior.de
2. ^ Katrin and Ralf Baus: Brandenburg at the end of the war and the political new beginning. In: website / party history. CDU Brandenburg, accessed on March 18, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Thomas Wernicke: Potsdam 1945–1989. Stages of a failed social utopia . In: Sigrid Grabner, Hendrik Rödner, Thomas Wernicke (eds.): Potsdam 1945–1989. Between adaptation and rebellion , p. 172. - Potsdam: Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung 1999 - ISBN 3-932502-17-5 = Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Jürgen Köhler: My father was snow white. Reconstruction of a political murder . In: Sigrid Grabner, Hendrik Rödner, Thomas Wernicke (eds.): Potsdam 1945–1989. Between adaptation and rebellion , p. 24. - Potsdam: Brandenburg State Center for Political Education 1999 - ISBN 3-932502-17-5 = Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Schleusener in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography in the files of the Reich Chancellery