Fritz Hähnsen

Fritz Heinrich Anton Hähnsen (born April 3, 1892 in Kiel ; † September 9, 1965 in Bad Orb ; buried in Flensburg ) was a German lawyer , lawyer and historian .

Life

Fritz Hähnsen came from a family of craftsmen. His father Conrad Johann Anton Hähnsen (born January 26, 1857 in Kappeln ; † April 9, 1931) worked as a butcher in Kiel and was married to Johanne Adolphine Leonore Schacht (born April 25, 1862 in Kiel; † June 17, 1937 there) . He himself married Käthe Louise Jacobsen on August 8, 1922 in Flensburg (June 4, 1893 in Norburg ; † April 15, 1962 in Flensburg), with whom he had two daughters.

Hähnsen began studying at the Reform Realgymnasium in Kiel from Easter 1898 and passed the school- leaving examination there in February 1910. He then studied history, political science and philosophy at the University of Freiburg. He spent the summer semester of 1911 in Kiel and the following semester in Munich. After a three-month study trip to London, he completed the summer semester of 1912 in Kiel again. The most important teachers for him were Friedrich Meinecke and Georg von Below in Freiburg and Felix Rachfahl and Richard Passow in Kiel. In November 1914 he received his doctorate from Rachfahl with an extensive work on the history of the craft offices for Dr. phil. Although still unfinished, the faculty accepted the first part of his thesis as a dissertation and in 1916 allowed the second part to be printed.

Hähnsen then went to the navy as a volunteer and fought in Flanders during the First World War from April 1915 until the end of the war. He then completed his work in Kiel through the craft offices, where he majored in political science. In May 1921 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. He dealt with the development of rural handicrafts in Schleswig-Holstein.

Hähnsen was involved in the Schleswig-Holsteiner Bund together with the journalist Ernst Schröder and the pastor Karl Nissen from autumn 1919 . They were supposed to prepare the referendum in Schleswig on the German side . In April 1921 Hähnsen took over the office of "Political Director" of this association. In addition to Christian Tränckner , he held a central position that was not visible to the outside world.

In June 1924, a general assembly of the Flensburg Chamber of Crafts elected Hähnsen as their syndic. This was the starting point of his actual professional activity. The choice was made because he came from a family of craftsmen in Schleswig-Holstein, was familiar with economic policy and was familiar with the problems between Germans and Danes with regard to the border issue. His term of office has been extended several times. He continued to work with the Schleswig-Holsteiner Bund until 1933 and 1948 and retired in 1959.

Act

Hähnsen was involved in local politics from 1924 to 1933 as a city councilor. He joined the bourgeois block group, which was called "Bürgerbund" from 1924 to 1929 and then "Civil United Front". After 1933 he joined the NSDAP and later left it again. As a former lieutenant in the navy, he was assigned to the "officer corps of the state on leave" after an application in May 1936, which probably helped him to leave the party. During the Second World War he did military service in the Navy and left it as a corvette captain.

In addition to his job, Hähnsen constantly dealt with historical and cultural issues and was also scientifically active. In addition to his two extended dissertations, in 1929 he published the noteworthy, two-volume publication on “The Origin and History of Article V of the Peace of Prague”. This was part of the official series "Diplomatic Files of the Foreign Office", in which the authors Walter Platzhoff , Kurt Rheindorf and Johannes Tiedje published the files "Bismarck and the North Schleswig Question 1864–1879". The historian Aage Friis also dealt with this topic from the Danish side, exchanged views with Hähnsen and advocated that he could inspect documents from the Foreign Office. Hähnsen's publications were created within the framework of the "Baltic Commission", which, led by Otto Scheel and his deputy Fritz Rörig , had existed since 1925 and of which Hähnsen was also a member.

In the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History , conflicts between Volquart Pauls , Paul von Hedemann-Heespen and Otto Brandt probably prevented Hähnsen from assuming its chairmanship. Hähnsen tended more towards the cultural and historical magazine "Nordelbingen", which was in rivalry with the "Journal for Schleswig-Holstein History" created by Hedemann-Heespen. After the end of the war, this competition no longer existed. In 1948, Hähnsen and another person re-founded the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History . Until 1965 he was a member of the board of directors and advisory board and was second member of the board. He was also involved in the editorial board of the magazine and the series "Sources and Research". The Society for Flensburg City History elected him to the board in 1937, where he was chairman from 1946 to 1962.

Hähnsen had good personal relationships with Peter Christian Hansen and was particularly committed to him. From 1938 until the end of his life, he took over the chairmanship of the Flensburg workers' building association founded by Hansen . G. mb H. He also headed the “Northern District Working Group” of the “Working Group of Schleswig-Holstein Housing Companies” and was a member of the supervisory board of the insurance company “Nova” for many years.

Hähnsen was particularly concerned with public relations, training and technical and business support for the craft. In 1925 and 1950 he directed large craft exhibitions, which were among the highlights of his work. In 1925 the Chamber of Crafts bought an administration building and founded a "business administration office". This was formally a branch of the research institute for efficient management in the craft, in which the German Chamber of Crafts and Trades took part. The later renamed business administration office was the first of its kind to be established by German chambers of trade and proved to be very successful over the long term.

It was important to Hähnsen that prospective craftsmen attended general and technical courses at Schleswig-Holstein adult education centers. He had received the suggestions for this in Denmark. He himself was a member of the board of trustees of the Heimvolkshochschule Rendsburg and participated nationally in the committees for vocational training and education in the Lower Saxony Chamber of Crafts in Hanover and then in the German Chamber of Crafts in Bonn .

literature

• Hans-Friedrich Schütt: Hähnsen, Fritz . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11-2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , pp. 137-139.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Hans-Friedrich Schütt: Hähnsen, Fritz . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , p. 137.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Hans-Friedrich Schütt: Hähnsen, Fritz . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , p. 138.
3. ^ Hans-Friedrich Schütt: Hähnsen, Fritz . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11-2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , pp. 138-139.
4. ^ Hans-Friedrich Schütt: Hähnsen, Fritz . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , p. 139.