Heinrich Linder

Heinrich Linder (born April 5, 1899 in Brambach (Overath) ; died January 18, 1979 in Bensberg ) was District Administrator of the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in 1945 .

Life

As the son of the father of the same name, Heinrich Linder, a farmer from Brambach near Overath and his wife Anna Katharina Linder, née Eisengarten, Linder began a three-year administrative training course at the town hall in Overath after attending primary school on April 1, 1914. With the successful completion Linder was acquired on April 1, 1917 as administrative assistant in the administrative service and remained in that position until 28 February 1923. After promotion to community Upper Secretary to March 1, 1923 it commissioned on 13 March 1923, the Cologne District President kommissarisch with the takeover of the office of the Mayor of Overath. The final appointment of Linder as mayor, desired by the municipal council in 1926, came before the then district administrator of the Mülheim am Rhein district , Matthias Eberhard , when he appointed him to the district administration in Mülheim .

Simultaneously with the dissolution of the Mülheim am Rhein district on October 1, 1932 and its simultaneous amalgamation with the Wipperfürth district to form the newly formed Rheinisch-Bergisch district with the future seat in Bergisch Gladbach , Linder was appointed administrative director. After the early resignation of the previous district administrator Matthias Eberhard on March 15, 1933, immediately after the Nazis seized power and before Eberhard's official departure on May 1, 1933, Linder joined the NSDAP on April 24, 1933 . On the same day, Eberhard's successor, NSDAP district leader Julius Mennicken, took over the administration of the district.

Until the end of the war in 1945, Linder headed the War Economics Office, which was part of the district administration. Mennicken awarded Linder, who had been his deputy since December 24, 1940, with the War Merit Cross on September 1, 1942 . It followed on March 4, 1943, Linder had meanwhile become district office director, the second level of the trust mark of honor. Although Linder was a member of the Landwehr , he was postponed from active military service during World War II as indispensable .

After the occupation of the area of ​​the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis by units of the Allies, Linder was burdened by the American military government on April 15, 1945 in succession to the establishment of the military zones and the transfer of the area to British administration or to the British military government Mennicken appointed as district administrator of the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis. A family from Bensberg and Frankenforst informed the local district commanders of the military government that Linder was also a member of the NSDAP, whereupon he was deposed as district administrator on May 19, 1945 after only six weeks. The denazification process that was initiated classified him as unencumbered (level V) by a decision of September 29, 1947. Linder protested and contradicted the release. After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany in May 1949, the district assembly of the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in its meeting on November 28, 1949 came to the conclusion that Linder's appointment to the district administrator in 1945 was right.

Meanwhile, a refugee and main transit camp had been set up in Wipperfürth , of which Linder had been the deputy head of the camp since October 16, 1945, and of which he was appointed to head on December 1, 1946. At the same time, he continued to make efforts to return to his previous place of work, the district administration in Bergisch Gladbach. The district council complied with these efforts and Linder's request of May 27, 1953 on March 17, 1955 and appointed him administrative director on April 1, 1955. As such, he initially headed the administration on a provisional basis. From the promotion by a district council resolution of May 14, 1959 to his retirement on June 30, 1962, Linder acted as district director.

The Catholic Heinrich Linder lived in childless marriage with his wife Lotte (died on May 22, 1986).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} The lost district administrator - Heinrich Linder on rbk-direkt.de, accessed on March 29, 2019.