Franz Lemmens

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Franz Nikolaus Lemmens (born February 14, 1906 in Heinsberg-Kempen , † June 9, 1979 in Cologne ) was a German notary and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Franz Lemmens came from a small farming family with eight children. After graduating from high school, he initially worked as a commercial clerk at the United Glanzstoff factories . At the same time he studied business, finance and law in Cologne and Bonn. In 1936 he was with the work of the acknowledgment of debt: a review of the teaching with special emphasis on teaching Krückmanns at the University of Cologne to Dr. iur. PhD.

In 1938 he became editor of the specialist journal Deutsche Notar-Zeitschrift . In 1943 he settled in Cologne as a notary, did military service on the Eastern Front and became a prisoner of war. After the end of the war, Lemmens was an associate lawyer at the Cologne Court of Justice from 1948, and later worked as a notary.

Franz Lemmens was mayor of the city of Cologne and from 1961 to 1968 first deputy mayor of Theo Burauen (SPD). He was a member of the Cologne city council from 1952 to 1975 and, in succession to Leo Schwering, chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Cologne city council from 1958 to 1968.

After the end of the war he was chairman of the Catholic Committee in Cologne. In 1954 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in Cologne Cathedral on December 8, 1954 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . Of Cardinal Joseph Frings , he was appointed in Cologne as chairman of the local committee in preparation for the 77th German Catholic 1956th For the Archdiocese of Cologne , and later for other dioceses, he was trustee at Rheinischer Merkur .

Lemmens was married to Luise Schwartz since 1936; the marriage has two daughters. He was a member of the Lions Club Cologne-Colonia.

Awards

  • Honorary Senator of the University of Cologne (1950)

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  • Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who ?, Volume 17 , Schmidt-Römhild 1971, page 635

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winfried Herbers: The loss of hegemony .: The Cologne CDU 1945/46 - 1964. , Droste Verlag 2003, page 169
  2. ^ Peter Mensing , Rudolf Morsey , Hans-Peter Schwarz : Adenauer , Siedler, 2009, p. 617
  3. ↑ Political Yearbook of the CDU / CSU, Volume 8 , Kommunal-Verlag Recklinghausen 1968, page 162
  4. ↑ Bischöfe In Not , Spiegel 37/1974
  5. ^ Der Städtetag, Volume 22 , W. Kohlhammer 1969, page 392

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personal data
SURNAME Lemmens, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lemmens, Franz Nikolaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German notary and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempen
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1979
Place of death Cologne