Friedrich Lekve

Friedrich Lekve (born February 26, 1904 in Wesel am Rhein ; † August 26, 1956 ) was Lord Mayor of Hildesheim and Thelemit from 1952 to 1953 . After attending secondary school in Saarbrücken , he completed a commercial apprenticeship in Hamburg. With the transfer of his father, who was active as a government building officer, the family came to Hildesheim. There Lekve worked at Wetzel Gummiwerke and in 1940 he became sales director and board member.

Political commitment

Lekve was previously a member of the first post-war councilor for the SPD . In 1963, in the meantime eingemeindeten Drispenstedt the Friedrich-Lekve street named after him.

Esoteric engagement

Lekve was also Thelemite and personally known to Aleister Crowley, with whom he was in contact until his death and also visited him. He held the Adeptus Major degree of the Thelemic Order Astrum Argenteum and was accepted by Aleister Crowley as IX ° of the Ordo Templi Orientis . Until the end of the 1940s, the Lekve family received CARE packages from members of the Californian Apage Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis. At the beginning of the 1950s he developed his own form of Thelemas, the "Thelem Chassidim" and published his thelemic lessons in this direction. Lekve was particularly interested in the Jewish Kabbalah and was also acquainted with Gerhard and Gershom Scholem .

literature

• Peter-Robert König: The OTO phenomenon RELOAD. Volume 1. Working group for religious and ideological issues, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-941421-16-5 , p. 361 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.stadtarchiv-hildesheim.de/geschichte/buergermeister.htm , accessed on February 16, 2008 at 4:44 am
2. ↑ http://www.parareligion.ch/2008/lekve/luise.htm
3. ↑ Unless otherwise stated: http://www.stadtarchiv-hildesheim.de/strassen/strassen_f.htm , accessed on February 16, 2008 at 4:45 a.m.
4. ↑ http://www.parareligion.ch/sunrise/lekve.htm

predecessor	Office	successor
Albin hunger	Mayor and Lord Mayor of Hildesheim 1952–1953	Albin hunger