Georg Frickenstein

Georg Frickenstein (born January 9, 1890 in Weener , † September 5, 1946 in Emden ) was a liberal politician in Emden during the Weimar Republic and after the Second World War , the first Lord Mayor of Emden , appointed by the British military government . He died during his tenure as Lord Mayor of the seaport city .

Origin and education

Frickenstein came from a family of teachers in Weener in the Rhineland , in southwestern East Friesland . After attending grammar school in Leer , he completed an apprenticeship in banking in Emden, the city to which he remained connected for the rest of his life. In 1918 he became head of the Stadtsparkasse Emden , four years later director of the Girozentrale Ostfriesland. From 1926 he worked as a freelancer.

Political activity in the Weimar Republic

Frickenstein belonged to the DDP and was district chairman of the DDP until 1933, which held a strong political position in East Frisia in the initial phase of the Weimar Republic, but lost it in the Reichstag elections in May 1924 and in the following years until 1933 in the region almost politically became meaningless. In 1924 he was elected to the Emden Citizens' Board, then to the municipal magistrate and, from July 1931, as a replacement for Jann Fegter in the provincial parliament of the province of Hanover . Since he campaigned early on for the democratic forces to work together against the emergence of extremism , he was forced out of his offices by the National Socialists after the “ seizure of power ” in 1933 and also briefly arrested. In the following years he worked in an inconspicuous position in the commercial area at a shipping company in Emden. In 1941 he moved to Aurich because of the increasing bombing of Emden during the air war , where he found refuge with his political companion and personal friend Jann Berghaus .

First post-war mayor of Emden

On May 18, 1945, Frickenstein was appointed Emden's first post-war Lord Mayor by the British commander of the seaport city, Newroth.

literature

Beatrix Herlemann : Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919-1945, 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 115.
Dietmar von Reeken : Georg Frickenstein (PDF; 34 kB). In: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland , accessed on February 22, 2013.
Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 115.

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Siebert, Walter Deeters, Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1750 to the present (Volume VII of the series Ostfriesland in the protection of the dike , published by Deichacht Krummhörn, Pewsum). Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1980, without ISBN, p. 270.

personal data
SURNAME	Frickenstein, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 9, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weener
DATE OF DEATH	September 5, 1946
Place of death	Emden

[1] Ernst Siebert, Walter Deeters, Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1750 to the present (Volume VII of the series Ostfriesland in the protection of the dike , published by Deichacht Krummhörn, Pewsum). Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1980, without ISBN, p. 270.