Heinrich Gau

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Sign to the senior citizens facility named after Heinrich Gau in Wedel

Heinrich Fritz Peter Hans Gau (born January 10, 1903 in Altona ; † July 16,  1965 ) was a German politician and administrative officer . From 1950 until his death he was mayor of the city of Wedel .

Life

After graduating from elementary school, Gau completed an apprenticeship as a shipbuilder at Blohm & Voss and the Deutsche Werft and worked in this profession from 1921 to 1924. He made up his secondary school leaving certificate and then worked as a technical employee in Hamburg .

From 1937 Gau worked as a technical administrative officer in the building department of the city of Wedel, in 1940 he became head of the economic and food department. After World War II , he was appointed city inspector by the British military administration in 1945 and became city director in 1947. On April 27, 1950 Gau was appointed mayor of the city of Wedel. In 1962 he was re-elected.

He was a member of the board of the German Association of Cities in Schleswig-Holstein and from 1948 to 1952 chairman of the "Five-City Association Pinneberg", of which he was one of the founders.

Gau succumbed to a heart attack in the early morning of July 16, 1965, after he had returned to Wedel from a business matter from Kiel the previous evening and then went to the town hall to work. In the obituary of the city of Wedel it was said: “He lived a life for his city.” Gau would have left office at the end of 1965 at his own request. Shortly after his death in August 1965, the municipal nursing and old people's home, which was inaugurated in February 1965, was named after Gau.

During his tenure as Mayor of Wedel, among other things, the construction of the Johann-Rist-Gymnasium was decided, which opened three months before his death, as well as the construction of the municipal indoor swimming pool, which was built from the summer of 1967.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Carsten Dürkob: 25 years for the reconstruction; Heinrich Gau . In: Wedel. A city story . A. Beig Druck und Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-923457-52-9 , pp. 207, 208 .
  2. ↑ Mayor of the City of Wedel - wedel.de. Retrieved December 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Carsten Dürkob: 25 years for the reconstruction; "He lived a life for his city ..." In: Wedel. A city story . A. Beig Druck und Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-923457-52-9 , pp. 232 .
  4. ^ February 1965 - A home for old people - wedel.de. Retrieved December 21, 2018 .
  5. ^ Carsten Dürkob: A grammar school and an indoor swimming pool for Wedel . In: Wedel. A city story . A. Beig Druck und Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-923457-52-9 , pp. 230, 231 .
personal data
SURNAME Gau, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gau, Heinrich Fritz Peter Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1965