Hans Janßen (politician, 1918)

Hans Janßen (born September 22, 1918 in Rüstringen ; † August 20, 2001 in Wilhelmshaven ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament and Lord Mayor of the city of Wilhelmshaven.

Life

After attending primary and secondary school, Hans Janßen completed a commercial apprenticeship. After graduating, he worked as an insurance salesman for a year, after which he did Reich Labor Service . On September 1, 1938, he became a member of the NSDAP . From 1939 to 1945 he served as a lieutenant and battery chief in the Navy.

After the end of the Second World War , he worked for ten years in his parents' business, from 1968 as an employee for a financial institution. During his denazification , Janßen tried to make believe that he was only a party candidate in the NSDAP and that membership had come about through corporate transfer instead of his own application. In the matter Arthur Raschke acted as Janßen's advocate, who attested to the Oldenburg Denazification Committee that Janßen had been taken over by the HJ into the NSDAP and was also “politically uninterested” and “mainly concerned himself with his professional interests . He did not use his party membership to gain advantages or to harm other people. ”(Quoted in Glienke, p. 102)

In 1956 he took over the position of CDU district manager, five years later (1961–1967) he became regional manager. Janßen was a member of the supervisory board of Schifffahrtsgesellschaft Jade mbH and the housing company Jade mbH. He took over the chairmanship of the shareholders 'meeting of the Wilhelmshaven energy supplier Gas, Elektrizität, Wasser GmbH, and was a member of the shareholders' meeting of Flugplatz GmbH in Friesland-Wilhelmshaven.

Hans Janßen was politically active from 1946 onwards, first as a councilor, from 1955 to 1981 he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group and, in November 1981, Lord Mayor of Wilhelmshaven. In 1986 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. On September 16, 1998 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Wilhelmshaven.

Janßen was from May 20, 1963 to June 20, 1986 member of the Lower Saxony Landtag for the 5th to 10th electoral term. From September 25, 1974 to June 20, 1986, he chaired the subcommittee on auditing of the budgetary accounts of the Committee on Budget and Finance .

Hans Janßen was married and had one child.

literature

• Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition. Hannover 2012, p. 102f ( online as PDF) .
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 182.