Heinrich Raskin

Heinrich Raskin (born July 17, 1902 in Cologne , † July 31, 1990 in Baden-Baden ) was a German local politician ( CDU ) and Lord Mayor of Trier from 1949 to 1963 .

Life

Heinrich Raskin was born as one of five children of the postman Bernhard Josef Raskin (born January 25, 1871, † June 10/25, 1925 in Cologne) and his wife Johanna Katharina Henriette Raskin, née. Giesen (born April 12, 1874 in Bergisch Gladbach; † October 23, 1961 in Cologne). He grew up with his siblings in Cologne-Ehrenfeld and in the center of Cologne on Werderstraße and, together with his older brother Adolf, also had to take on financial responsibility for the younger siblings after the early death of their father.

After studying law and economics, he worked for the Cologne city administration from 1930 to 1936 and for the Deutsche Verkehrsgesellschaft Berlin from 1936 to 1945. During the Second World War , Raskin fled to Engelskirchen , where he was appointed mayor of the occupying forces on May 4, 1945. His term of office ended in October 1946, when he had been elected senior city director of Rheydt . In 1949 he became the first full-time Lord Mayor of Trier after the Second World War. “He was the Lord Mayor of the Trier Reconstruction.” It should also be emphasized that in 1960 Raskin succeeded in having the Trier City Library publish a facsimile print of the manuscript “ Codex Egberti ” .

Honors

The city of Trier commemorates him with “Heinrich-Raskin-Straße”.

Fonts

• Heinrich Raskin: The unconstitutionality of the compulsory guilds . Cologne 1929 (Cologne, legal dissertation, 1928).
• Heinrich Raskin: Speeches and speeches for the millennium celebration of the market cross in Trier on June 29, 1958 . Lintz, Trier 1958.

literature

• On the death of Dr. Heinrich Raskin, retired Lord Mayor . In: New Trierisches Jahrbuch . Trier 1990, p. 15-16 .
• Heinz Monz: Development years: Events and developments in the city of Trier after the end of the Second World War up to 1975 . Verl. D. Akad. Buchh., Trier 1987, ISBN 3-88915-031-4 (especially chapter 21.).
• Trier biographical lexicon . Landesarchivverwaltung, Koblenz 2000. ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , pp. 351–352

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Raskin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Heinrich Raskin in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
• Rathaus-Zeitung: Weekly newspaper of the city of Trier . City of Trier, Office for Press and Public Relations, July 16, 2002, ZDB -ID 1346108-4 ( online ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Josef Hesse: Engelskirchen in the 19th and 20th centuries. Engelskirchen 1985, pp. 158-159
2. ^ Emil Zenz : The city of Trier in the 20th century . 1st half 1900–1950. Trier 1981. pp. 467-473
3. ↑ Rathaus-Zeitung: Weekly newspaper of the city of Trier . City of Trier, Office for Press and Public Relations, July 16, 2002, ZDB -ID 1346108-4 .