Hans Rudel

Johannes Hans Rüdel (born July 6, 1888 on the building yard in Nörtershausen , † June 8, 1975 in Trier ) was a German district administrator .

Life and origin

Hans Rüdel was born on July 6, 1888 into a local farming family that had been living in the building yard in Nörthausen for 200 years. After completing his school education, he completed administrative training as a trainee in the mayor's office in Brodenbach from 1904 to 1907 and then worked as an office assistant at the city administration in Bad Honnef . From 1908 until 1915 he was employed in the social welfare office of the city of Gelsenkirchen , where he passed his first administrative examination as an administrative assistant in 1913 (according to other sources in 1915) , which was followed by a visit to the administrative academy in Essenand attending courses at various universities followed. In 1915 he took up a civil service position at the district committee of the Bochum district , from where he switched to the Bad Kreuznach district welfare office in 1918 , which he headed as district inspector from July 1, 1924. In his other capacity as manager of the Red Cross , he helped in 1923 during the imperial government proclaimed passive resistance against the French - Belgian occupation of the Ruhr and until 1924 continued Rhenish separatist unrest needy families of political prisoners and by the French from the circle designated persons financially. In 1930 he was awarded the German Red Cross 1st Class Decoration in recognition of these services .

On April 12, 1933, he was classified as politically unsustainable, then initially on leave and finally released from service in the Bad Kreuznach district on October 13 . In March 1936 he temporarily took over the management of the Brothers Hospital in Bad-Kreuznach, but he was released again on September 30, 1938 on the instructions of the district management. In the period from December 1, 1938 to April 30, 1941 he was an insurance agent and from May 8, 1941 he found employment again as a war aid worker at the Trier district administration. On May 1, 1943, he became a recall officer in the management of the finance and tax department and after the end of World War II he was again district inspector. After joining the CDU in January 1946, he was appointed mayor of Ruwer on the 21st of the same month by the Trier district president Wilhelm Steinlein in agreement with the French military government . Rudel did not take office, however, as he was promoted to district administrator by District Administrator Heinrich Salzmann on May 4, 1946 and entrusted with the management of the district administration. From November 9, 1946 to April 21, 1947, Rüdel was entrusted with the official business of the management of the Trier district as a deputy . On March 15, 1948, he was appointed managing district administrator of the Prüm district . After the explosion in Prüm on July 15, 1949, Rüdel and Police Commissioner Franz Meyer resolutely had the town of Prüm evacuated after a fire broke out, thus preventing more people from perishing in addition to 12 deaths. Rüdel retired in 1952.

literature

• Franz-Josef Faas: Rüdel, Hans . In: Heinz Monz (ed.): Trier biographical lexicon . Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , p. 383

Web links

• Entry on Hans Rüdel in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
• Inauguration of the memorial stone for the Marquis de Vassoigne by District Administrator Rüdel, In: kulturdb.de (accessed on August 12, 2020)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz / inventory 700,172 - Johannes Rüdel (1888–1975), District Administrator in Prüm (1948–1952)
2. ↑ Explosion of an ammunition dump in the Eifel, When the sky cried "bloody tears", by Wolfgang Brenner, July 15, 2019, In: spiegel.de (accessed on August 16, 2020)
3. ↑ Cleaned and packaged, July 21, 1949, In: spiegel.de (accessed on August 16, 2020)