Hans Drape
Hans Drape (born May 25, 1876 in Hanover , † January 31, 1947 in Lüneburg ) was a German engineer , director of the Lüneburg light and water works and Lord Mayor of the city of Lüneburg. His places of activity were also the cities of Hanover, Essen , Berlin and Brussels .
Life
Hans Drape was born in Hanover in 1876. After attending school and studying, which he finished as an engineer, he lived in Lüneburg from 1911, where he was appointed director of the city's light and water works .
During the First World War , Drape was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class and the Order of Merit of the Principality of Lippe in the first year of the war . In Belgium , which was occupied by the German army , he joined the “civil administration of the Brussels Governorate ”, in which he was entrusted with the supervision and administration of all Belgian gas, water and electricity utilities as well as the supervision of the electrical overland centers and trams.
After the end of the Second World War , Hans Drape was appointed Lord Mayor of Lüneburg by the British military government in 1945. One of his first official acts was the renaming of some of the streets that were renamed at the time of National Socialism on the instructions of the military authorities on May 14, 1945 . Hans Drape also received an order from the British military organs to rebuild the Lüneburg Chamber of Commerce , from which the IHK was later formed.
Drape died on January 31, 1947 in Lüneburg.
literature
- Back then. Fourth home book for the district of Lüneburg . Husum 2002, pp. 187-188
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d o.V. : Drape, Hans in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek [undated], last accessed on January 12, 2018
- ↑ GWF. The gas and water compartment. Journal for gas technology and gas management as well as for water and sewage. Journal of the German Association of Gas and Water Experts (DVGW), the Association of German Gas and Water Works (VGW), the Economic Association of German Gas Works AG (WV), the Central Gas Utilization Center (ZfG) and the Wastewater Technical Association (ATV) , Vol. 60, Munich; Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1917, p. 352; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ water and gas. Organ of the Verein für Wasser- und Oaswirtschaft, EV and the Association of Water Experts, Vol. 5, printing and publishing: Deutscher Kommunal-Verlag G. mbH, Berlin-Friedenau, Hertelstrasse 5, 1914, No. 9, p. 65; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ top v .: From Hindenburgstrasse to Gartenstrasse , in top v .: Hindenburgstrasse. A contribution to the renaming of the Lüneburg Hindenburgstrasse , ed. of the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists. District Association Lüneburg, Lüneburg: VVN, 2014, p. 17f .; Downloadable as a PDF document from vvn-bda-lg.de
- ^ Rainer Schulze: Entrepreneurial self-administration and politics. The role of industrial u. Chambers of Commerce in Lower Saxony and Bremen as representatives of business interests after the end of World War II (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , vol. 38) (= sources and studies on the history of Lower Saxony after 1945 , vol. 3) (= publications by the Working group history of the state of Lower Saxony (after 1945) [vol. 3]), also dissertation 1986 at the University of Göttingen under the title Buten un Binnen, Wagen un Winnen , Hildesheim: Lax, 1988, ISBN 978-3-7848-3053-7 and ISBN 3-7848-3053-6 , pp. 73 and others; limited preview in Google Book search
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drape, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer, director of the Lüneburg light and water works and mayor of the city of Lüneburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1947 |
| Place of death | Luneburg |