Franz Wilhelm Lürken

Franz Wilhelm Lürken (born January 30, 1886 in Eschweiler ; † April 11, 1944 in Aachen ) was Lord Mayor of Bonn from 1932 to 1933 .

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Lürken was the son of a commercial director of the Eschweiler Mining Association . He went to the elementary school high school in Eschweiler and studied from 1905 to 1908 in Muenster and Bonn Law . He served his legal traineeship in Stolberg , Aachen and Cologne until 1909 , before he received his doctorate in Münster in 1910 and passed his assessor examination in Berlin in 1913 .

He left his judicial career and started his career in local government as a legal assistant for the city of Eschweiler. Here he was also chairman of the trade and merchant court. A year later he moved to the city of Cologne, where he worked for port, property, asset, finance, savings banks and construction management. When the war broke out he volunteered and in 1915 joined the Rhenish Cuirassier Regiment in Cologne-Deutz. He fought first on the Western Front , then on the Macedonian Front . On May 3, 1918, the city council of Süchteln elected him mayor, on April 20, 1920 he was elected mayor of Dülken , where he was re-elected in 1931 for a further twelve years.

After the mayor of Bonn, Johannes Nepomuk Maria Falk, retired due to health reasons and legal disputes with the National Socialists, Lürken applied as one of 74 applicants for the advertised position. In March 1932 he was elected by the Bonn city council, and in April he was solemnly inaugurated into his new office. Lürken could not set accents in Bonn, his term of office was too short for that.

After the local elections on March 12, 1933, Lürken had to give way to the National Socialist Ludwig Rickert . On July 1, 1933 he was by decree of the Pruss. Minister of the Interior provisionally appointed 1st deputy mayor of the city of Aachen (election on September 15, inauguration on October 13, 1933). Lürken died in a bomb attack on Aachen on April 11, 1944.

literature

• Annette Fusenig: How to invent a world equestrian festival - The Aachen jumping, riding and driving tournament from 1924 to 1939 , dissertation thesis 2004, p. 244, footnote 1190 and others pdf, 1.01 MB

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