Hans Bornkessel

Hans Bornkessel (born April 26, 1892 in Munich , † September 15, 1977 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Bornkessel attended a grammar school in Munich and studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University . During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich and was its first chairman after the war . He had to interrupt his studies for a few years because he took part in the First World War as a volunteer soldier. In 1922 he began as a government assessor, later he became a district official in Bad Berneck and Schwabach and was temporarily active in the Reich Insurance Office. From 1929 until his suspension in 1933 or his retirement in 1934, he worked as a professional city councilor, welfare and police officer for the city of Fürth . In 1938 he moved to Berlin for several years . After a period of political imprisonment, he worked for the Arado aircraft factory in Potsdam . In August 1945 he was elected District Administrator and Deputy District Administrator of the Brandenburg district of Eberswalde , but only held these offices for a short time. In 1946 he returned to Fürth, where he was elected Lord Mayor. Bornkessel held this office until 1964. He belonged to the Bavarian and German Association of Cities and from 1947 to 1967 to the Bavarian Senate .

Awards

• 1957: Large Federal Cross of Merit
• 1959: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1964: Golden Citizen Medal of the City of Fürth
• 1967: Large Federal Cross of Merit with a star

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 27.

Web links

• Hans Bornkessel in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History