Heinrich Klosterkemper

Heinrich "Heinz" Klosterkemper (born December 16, 1902 in Osnabrück , † November 28, 1976 in Düsseldorf ) was a German administrative lawyer and district administrator .

After graduating from high school in his hometown in 1922, he studied law and political science at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Göttingen. Since 1922 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau . After completing his legal clerkship, he joined the civil service as a government assessor, where he worked at the Wiedenbrück district office from 1930 and at the Unna district office from 1931. After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Klosterkemper, who had previously been close to the center, joined the NSDAP in early May 1933 .

He worked as district administrator in the Unna district from October 1, 1933 to January 13, 1937 and was in office in the Glatz district from 1937 to 1945. In the meantime he did military service in the Wehrmacht from mid-June 1940 during the Second World War , most recently as a first lieutenant . From 1941 until the end of the war in 1945 he was employed in the Reich Ministry of the Interior as general advisor for administrative simplification.

After the end of the war Klosterkemper found employment in the construction industry. He was denazified as exonerated in December 1948 after a court proceedings . He was admitted to the board of directorships in 1949. From 1952 until his retirement in 1966, he worked as the ministerial director of the department of land consolidation, agricultural structure improvement, settlement, water management in the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests of North Rhine-Westphalia .

literature

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , pp. 195-196.