Hans Lamers

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Hans Lamers (born October 16, 1926 in Schiefbahn ; † November 20, 2014 there ) was a German lawyer and local politician. From 1961 to 1969 he was the last mayor of the community of Schiefbahn and from 1970 to 1979 the first mayor of the newly founded town of Willich . From 1979 to 1991 he was city director in Willich.

Life

Hans Lamers passed his Abitur in 1946 and then studied law at the University of Cologne . After completing his studies, he worked as a trainee lawyer in Krefeld from 1951 to 1954 before he was appointed to the Chamber for the Restitution of National Socialist injustice in 1954. There he stayed until 1956. In 1955 he received his doctorate at the University of Cologne on the subject of the relationship between § 25 HGB and § 419 BGB for a doctorate in law . From 1957 to 1964 he worked as a judge at the Krefeld District Court . He was then a member of a civil senate at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court .

Hans Lamers joined the CDU in 1961 . After the local council election in Schiefbahn on March 29, 1961, Lamers was elected by the local council on April 24, 1961 to succeed Mayor Karl Schäfer ( FDP ). After the municipal council election on October 8, 1964 he was confirmed in this office and remained so until the municipal reorganization on January 1, 1970. From 1965 to 1969 he was chairman of the mayors' conference in the Kempen-Krefeld district . During his two terms as mayor of Schiefbahn, the land consolidation in the community of Schiefbahn, the designation of the industrial area "Am Nordkanal ", the establishment of the Hubertusstift nursing home, the construction of the Agnes-Miegel-Schule primary school and the Jahnschule secondary school. On September 11, 1966, he signed the partnership document for the town twinning between Schiefbahn and the French Linselles . The partnership is continued to this day by the city of Willich.

After the first local election in the new town of Willich on March 15, 1970, Lamers was elected mayor by the city council on April 2, 1970. His acting predecessor was the former mayor of Willich, Emil Merks. After the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 4, 1975, he was re-elected as mayor by the city council on May 22, 1975.

After city director Bernhard Hüsers decided in 1978 to retire before the end of his twelve-year service, the Willich city council elected Hans Lamers as his successor in the second ballot on January 30, 1979. In order to take office, he resigned the mayor's office and his council mandate at the council meeting on February 13, 1979. The inauguration as city director took place on June 20, 1979. His successor in the office of mayor was Käthe Franke . In 1991 Lamers renounced another term as city director. On February 1, 1991 the city council elected the previous treasurer Dieter Hehnen as his successor.

After 30 years in local politics, Lamers withdrew into private life. For several years he worked as a lawyer in a law firm in his hometown of Schiefbahn. On November 20, 2014, Hans Lamers died in Schiefbahn at the age of 88.

Honors

literature

  • Willicher Kulturstiftung (ed.): City history Willich . Boss Druck und Medien, Kleve 2003, ISBN 3-933969-34-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. Hans Lamers is dead. Wz-newsline.de, accessed on November 21, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President