Franz Dieckmann

Franz Wilhelm Bernhard Dieckmann (born July 17, 1875 in Gladbeck , † February 11, 1944 in Kirchhain ) was a German lawyer and politician ( Center Party ).

education

Dieckmann was born in the Gladbeck farming community of Butendorf and graduated from high school Laurentianum in Warendorf in 1895 . He then completed his law studies in Tübingen , Leipzig , Innsbruck and Göttingen . In Tübingen he joined the Catholic student association AV Guestfalia Tübingen in the CV .

Act

On June 18, 1898, Dieckmann took up his first position as a court trainee at the Hamm Higher Regional Court , which he interrupted on October 1 to work as a one-year volunteer , where he last held the rank of captain of the reserve . On July 21, 1904, he was appointed court assessor , then assistant judge at the district court of Hattingen and the district court of Münster .

In July 1905 Dieckmann switched to politics for the first time when he accepted a position as an alderman for the city of Bocholt . In June 1906 he was again appointed assistant judge, this time in Bocholt, Beckum , Bottrop and Recklinghausen . On September 6, 1907, he then found a job as city counsel and paid member of the municipal authorities in Münster . He was elected second alderman in March 1908, first alderman and thus mayor in December 1910. Finally, on March 3, 1916, Dieckmann was elected mayor of Münster; his inauguration took place on April 13th. Linked to this was his membership in the Prussian mansion , and from 1917 to 1919 he was a member of the Westphalian Provincial Parliament for the Münster-Stadt constituency . During his short term of office, he had the difficult task of organizing the supply of the population with food and, after the end of the war, of adapting the administration to the new conditions. He did not hesitate to go to the neighboring villages himself and to describe the plight of the townspeople to the farmers. In this way he was able to set up mass feeds for the population.

On November 20, 1919, Dieckmann was elected Governor of the Province of Westphalia and on January 20, 1920, he was appointed to his new office. As such, he was a member of the Prussian State Council from 1921 to 1933. In addition, on December 1, 1925, he was appointed member and chairman of the board of the Landesversicherungsanstalt Westfalen .

After the National Socialists came to power , Dieckmann was first given leave of absence as a politically unpopular person on April 23, 1933 and retired on January 1, 1934 in accordance with the law to restore the civil service . Official criminal and criminal proceedings against him were set at the end of 1933. To avoid further hostility, Dieckmann left the city of his many years of service in early 1934. He died in the evacuation to Kirchhain in Niederlausitz ; his grave is in the old part of the Münster Central Cemetery .

Honors

• Dr. med. hc from the University of Münster (1925)
• A street in Münster commemorates Franz Dieckmann.

Fonts

• Current issues in welfare , Aschendorff'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1925.
• Modern cripple welfare , Aschendorff'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Münster 1926.

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Dieckmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Franz Dieckmann on the Internet portal "Westphalian History"
• Explanations on Dieckmannstrasse near the city of Münster

predecessor	Office	successor
Max Jungeblodt	Lord Mayor of Münster in Westphalia 1916 - 1920	Georg Sperlich