Heinrich Jansen

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Heinrich Joseph Maria Johann Bernhard Jansen (born April 5, 1876 in Lüdinghausen , † September 16, 1945 in Warburg ) was the landowner and long-time district administrator of the Brilon district .

Life

He was the son of the businessman Wilhelm Stephan Jansen and Antonia Maria Franziska (née Wattendorf).

Jansen attended high school in Coesfeld . He then studied law in Innsbruck , Würzburg and Göttingen . He did his military service as a one-year volunteer in 1897/98 with the 2nd Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment in Würzburg. He was later a lieutenant in the reserve. Jansen completed the usual preparatory service for the Prussian legal career. In 1902 he bought the Hoppecke manor with 525 hectares of land in the Brilon district. After being appointed court assessor in 1907, he worked at the Gerresheim District Court and in 1908 at the Düsseldorf District Court . In addition, he worked for informational employment at the Düsseldorf District Office. In 1909 he was entrusted with the administration of the Brilon District Office and in 1910 he was definitively appointed District Administrator. During the First World War he was a participant in the war. He remained as a supporter, if not a party member of the center , during the Weimar Republic district administrator. Between 1915 and 1920 and again from 1924 to 1933 he was a member of the Westphalian Provincial Parliament and was its chairman from 1919 to 1920. Even at the beginning of the National Socialist era , he initially remained district administrator. In 1936 he anticipated his replacement by a staunch National Socialist and asked for his release because of alleged illness. Later he managed some district offices on a representative basis.

A street in Brilon is named after him.

literature

  • Become, grow, work. The Change of Time - District Administrations in the Hochsauerlandkreis 1817–2007. Arnsberg 2007 p. 313
  • Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 360.

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predecessor Office successor
Karl von Rumohr District Administrator of the Wittgenstein District in
1936
Otto Gail
Hermann Rotberg District Administrator of the Wittgenstein District
1940–1942
Otto Marloh