Franz Danzebrink

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Franz Xaver Danzebrink (born December 28, 1899 in Prüm ; † June 13, 1960 in Bonn ) was a German politician ( center , NSDAP ). From 1930 to 1945 he was Lord Mayor of the city of Fulda .

Life and work

Danzebrink was the son of the high school teacher Heinrich Danzebrink. Danzebrink, who was a Catholic denomination, married Margarete, née Enders, the daughter of the factory owner Eduard Küster from Stadtoldendorf .

Danzebrink attended the Prüm high school and passed the Abitur there in May 1917. He then did military service on the Western Front until 1918. From 1919 to 1921 he studied law and economics at the universities of Freiburg, Frankfurt, Bonn and Cologne and passed the legal clerkship examination (“sufficient”) in May 1921. In the same year he passed the Rigorosum (“magna cum laude”) and on February 13, 1923 in Cologne was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. In January 1925, he passed the second state examination (“fully satisfactory”) in Berlin. On August 1, 1925, he became a legal assistant to the Fulda City Administration. On April 1, 1926, he was promoted to magistrate's assistant and head of the welfare department, on April 1, 1927 to the magistrate's council.

Danzebrink was a member of the center and in 1929 his party's top candidate in the election of the Hessian municipal council . After the election he became the second chairman of the municipal council.

On March 22, 1930, he was elected as one of 56 applicants for Mayor of Fulda and confirmed on April 10, 1930. The inauguration took place on April 22, 1930. On May 1, 1937, he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 5,401,591). Danzebrink remained Lord Mayor until 1945. In the Second World War, however, he did military service again, became a first lieutenant and was taken prisoner by the Americans in 1945.

After his release from captivity, he was classified in Fulda in 1948 as a Nazi “fellow traveler”; He initially worked as a legal assistant and in the mid-1950s was advisor to the Federal Ministry of the Interior before he retired in 1958.

Aftermath

Dr.-Danzebrink-Strasse in Fulda is named after him. The Fulda Initiative called for the renaming of this street in 2015; 70 years after the end of the National Socialist tyranny, no streets are allowed to be named after an NSDAP member. At the end of May 2015, the city council of Fulda set up a commission to shed light on and reassess the role of Danzebrink during the Nazi era. The commission appointed could not agree on a uniform result and submitted diverging individual votes to the magistrate. The magistrate then decided in 2016 to have the history of the city during the Nazi era and administrative activities reviewed through a solid and broad-based scientific study. For this purpose, a historical faculty of a university or a research institution is to be won.

literature

  • Thomas Klein: Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945. (= Sources and research on Hessian history, 70; Ed. Hessische Historische Kommission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse), Darmstadt / Marburg 1988, ISBN 3-88443-159-5 , p. 109.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 103.
  • Dieter Pelda: The members of the Prussian Communal Parliament in Kassel 1867-1933 (= Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. Vol. 22 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 8). Elwert, Marburg 1999, ISBN 3-7708-1129-1 , pp. 34-35.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Denominations: Who in whose place? The mirror 1/1954
  2. ↑ Osthessen-News: NSDAP mayor as namesake - "Fulda stands across" wants to rename the Dr. Danzebrink-Strasse , April 29, 2015
  3. ^ Osthessen-News: Chaired by Dr. Thomas Heiler - Commission for the historical classification of Dr. Franz Danzebrink decided on June 2, 2015
  4. ^ Osthessen-News: Debate about Dr. Danzebrink - Appraisal of the actions of the city administration during the Nazi era , July 20, 2016
  5. ↑ Inquiry from the parliamentary group DIE LINKE.Offene Liste / Menschen für Fulda with answer from the municipal authorities , January 17, 2017 and January 30, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Danzebrink, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danzebrink, Franz Xaver (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center, NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Prüm
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1960
Place of death Bonn