Heinrich Möhle

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Heinrich Möhle (born December 20, 1888 in Hanover ; † May 6, 1962 there ) was a German social democrat , local politician and employee of the Hanover city administration .

Life

Born in Hanover, Heinrich Möhle completed elementary school and began an apprenticeship as a moulder at the Knoevenagel iron foundry at the age of 14 in 1903 , where he was subsequently able to work with interruptions as a hand moulder until 1945 .

As a young man, Möhle served as a soldier during the First World War from 1915 to 1917 .

During the Nazi era Möhle was persecuted and arrested several times, for example in the middle of the Second World War as part of the so-called “ Aktion Gewitter ” after the failed assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 on Adolf Hitler .

Immediately after the end of the war - in Hanover - Heinrich Möhle, together with Albin Karl and Erwin Barth , proposed to the American military rulers on April 11, 1945 that Gustav Bratke be appointed Lord Mayor of Hanover . On the same day Möhle and Albin Karl were commissioned to found the Committee for Reconstruction (AfW) together with other representatives from the former underground movement .

In the city, almost half destroyed by the previous air raids on Hanover, with around 250,000 homeless people and the more than 100,000 refugees and displaced persons who soon followed , Möhle was able to work in the Hanover housing authority on April 15, 1945 during the time of the British occupation zone .

After the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany , Heinrich Möhle worked in the personnel office of the city of Hanover, where he worked until his retirement on December 31, 1953. He died in his hometown in 1962.

Heinrich-Möhle-Weg

The state capital Hanover honored the deceased mayor by naming the Heinrich-Möhle-Weg, which was laid out in 1984 in the Bothfeld district .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Möhle, Heinrich in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version dated March 12, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Klaus Mlynek : Möhle, Heinrich. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 257.
  3. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1945. In: Hannover Chronik , here: p. 191; online through google books
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Second World War. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 694f.
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Refugees. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 182
  6. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Heinrich-Möhle-Weg , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 112
personal data
SURNAME Möhle, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democrat and local politician, persecuted by the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1962
Place of death Hanover