Heinrich Günnewig

Heinrich Günnewig (born February 10, 1889 in Bochum , † August 7, 1981 in Düsseldorf ) was a German lawyer and Lord Mayor of Wanne-Eickel .

Life

After attending grammar school, which he left during the First World War by taking the war matriculation examination , Heinrich Günnewig did his military service from November 17, 1916 to January 8, 1919. On his return he began to study law and social sciences , as well as economics at the universities of Münster and Halle , which he completed in 1921 with the first state examination in law. After passing the second state examination in law , he joined the Prussian judicial service as a judicial assessor at the Bochum district court , but then settled in Bochum as a Prussian notary . From 1932 he ran a law firm there as a lawyer and notary. After the seizure of power by the Nazis Heinrich Günnewig was in the tradition of William Wulf used on 12 February 1934, first as acting as mayor of Wanne-Eickel. After the definitive transfer on July 2, 1934, he held the office until April 17, 1945.

In February 1948 Heinrich Günnewig was sentenced to five months in prison for membership in the SS . Assumptions that he might have been involved in the fire of the Wanner synagogue during the November pogrom of November 10, 1938, could not be confirmed in the process.

Memberships

National Socialist German Workers' Party (membership number 862.252)
SS troop leader and legal adviser in the staff of SS Section XXV (Bochum); last (April 20, 1939) SS-Sturmbannführer (membership number 49.965)

literature

Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia XXII A, Historical Works on Westphalian State Research, Economic and Social History Group, Volume 16), Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 166. (Note after Lilla Günnewig had obtained his doctorate)

Web links

Internet portal “Westphalian History” / Günnewig, Heinrich - the biography is an unchanged takeover from Lilla.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officers and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia XXII A, Historical Works on Westphalian State Research, Economic and Social History Group, Volume 16), Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 166.

personal data
SURNAME	Günnewig, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 10, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bochum
DATE OF DEATH	7th August 1981
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[Lilla-1] Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officers and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia XXII A, Historical Works on Westphalian State Research, Economic and Social History Group, Volume 16), Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 166.