Gustav Pinkenburg

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Gustav Pinkenburg (* April 21, 1886 ; † 1958 ) was a German administrative officer and mayor of Würzburg in 1945/46 .

Life

Pinkenburg came to Würzburg in 1908. After a period in the military as a non-commissioned officer (he was an active military sergeant in World War I), he later worked for the Reichsbahn and then as the head of a traffic and travel agency he founded in 1924 on the Würzburg station square. Then he was sub-director of the Allianz life insurance company.

On April 6, 1945, the day after the last World War II fighting in Würzburg , Pinkenburg, who had previously been a member of the SPD, was appointed provisional managing mayor of Würzburg by the American military government under its director Henderson. His deputy was the manufacturer Otto Stein from April to July 1945. Pinkenburg gave up his post as acting mayor on June 6, 1946 for health reasons and Michael Meisner was then the city's first elected mayor after the war. The mayor's office was initially located at Ludwigkai 4 in the building of the military government and from September 1945 in the student house at Jahnstraße 1.

The former mayor, who worked as a merchant, had his apartment. D. in Marienstraße.

literature

  • Ulrich Wagner: The conquest of Würzburg in April 1945. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume III (2007), Pp. 294-314 and 1290-1292; here: pp. 312–314.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Bavarian Main State Archives: NCO personnel files 56104. ( Pinkenburg, Gustav ).
  2. Rolf-Ulrich Kunze : Würzburg 1945-2004. Reconstruction, modern city. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume III (2007), Pp. 318-346 and 1292-1295; here: p. 337.
  3. Ulrich Wagner (2007), p. 314.
  4. Ulrich Wagner (2007).
  5. Ulrich Wagner (2007), p. 314.
  6. ^ Association for Computer Genealogy: Entries from Würzburg Address Book 1947 .