Heinrich Krahnstever

Max Heinrich Gustav Karl Krahnstöver (born February 18, 1883 in Oldenburg ; † January 4, 1966 there ) was a German lawyer and civil servant, chairman of the board of directors of the Oldenburgische Landesbank and, by order of the British occupying power in 1945, mayor of the city of Oldenburg for a few months .

Life

Krahnstöver was the son of the lawyer Heinrich Krahnstöver and his wife Luise geb. Roth. In 1902 he passed the Abitur at the Old High School in Oldenburg , where he was also a member of the Camera obscura Oldenburgensis school association . After studying law , he worked from the beginning of 1914 under Theodor Tantzen-Heering as a government assessor . After the First World War in which he was Captain d. R. had participated from 1914 to 1918, Krahnstöver was a Ministerialrat in the Oldenburg State Ministry . He played a key role in the reorganization of the administration and made a great contribution to the development and expansion of the police force. Nevertheless, he retired from his administrative career on March 31, 1923 and was a member of the board of the Oldenburgische Landesbank (OLB) from 1923 to 1954 , the last 20 years of which as chairman. From 1954 to 1962 he was then a member of the supervisory board .

In the time of his work before the war there were many challenges and crises. In order to counter this, Krahnstever campaigned for restrictions on branch activities and the merger of the Landesbank with the Oldenburgische Spar- & Leih-Bank, which took place in 1935.

After the Second World War , Krahnstöver was appointed Lord Mayor of the City of Oldenburg and Head of City Administration on June 12, 1945 at the request of the Allied Military Government and thus succeeded Fritz Koch, who had been appointed by the military government five weeks earlier. Krahnstöver held this office until December 1, 1945; then he was replaced by Max tom Dieck . During Krahnstöver's tenure, the city of Oldenburg began cleaning up after the war and rebuilding damaged buildings. The sewer system was repaired and the supply of water, gas and electricity restored. Hospitals, old people's homes and kindergartens were reopened. During Krahnstöver's tenure, Oldenburg - the city survived the war years relatively unscathed (only around 1% of the housing stock was destroyed during the war) - became a place of refuge for around 36,000 refugees and displaced persons from the east. Krahnstöver's term of office ended when the British transitional government introduced the English municipal constitution and a political mayor was elected for the first time in Oldenburg. Heinrich-Krahnstöver-Straße was named after him in the Oldenburg new building area on Brookweg.

In 1936 there was an argument with the National Socialists . Krahnstöver's son, Heinrich Wilhelm Krahnstöver, (born August 21, 1919 in Oldenburg; † March 6, 2009 in Bendorf ), attended the old grammar school in Oldenburg at this time and was also a member (president) of the student association Camera obscura Oldenburgensis . This was banned by the National Socialists in 1935 and when the then school director Hempel became aware of his son's membership, Heinrich Wilhelm and two other members (the Chancellor and the Fox Major ) were expelled from the school. Krahnstöver was verbally informed by Prime Minister Joel that it would be ensured that his son would not be admitted to any German school for the school leaving examination. After a long back and forth, his son was accepted at the Mariengymnasium in Jever and passed his Abitur there.

family

Krahnstöver was married to Mechthild geb. Calmeyer-Schmedes, daughter of the Upper Government Councilor Theodor Calmeyer-Schmedes (1857–1920). The couple had three children.

Honors

• 1953: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Krahnstöver, Max Heinrich Gustav Karl. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 392 ( online ).
• Fritz Koch: Oldenburg 1945. Memories of a mayor . Holzberg Verlag, Oldenburg 1984, ISBN 3-87358-219-8 , p. 77 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Further information: Depiction of the persecution of the "Camera obscura Oldenburgensis" in the Third Reich, written by Heinrich Wilhelm Krahnstöver [1]