Heinz Ehmke

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Heinz Ehmke (born January 14, 1910 in Kiel ; died March 6, 1943 in Petrowskij near Kursk , Soviet Union ) was district administrator for the Malmedy district from 1940 to 1943 , and represented the Monschau district in 1941/1942 .

Life

Origin and education

As the son of the senior postal secretary and later postal inspector August Ehmke and his wife Pauline Ehmke, née Bohnsack, Heinz Ehmke received a high school education. After obtaining his university entrance qualification , he began to study law at the universities in his hometown of Kiel and then in Munich (1928 to 1932). By passing the first State examination on 22 April 1932 Ehmke came on May 20, as a court clerk into the Prussian Administration of Justice, where he of part of its further legal education in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Kiel found employment. In this phase Ehmke accepted on December 1, 1932 membership in the National Socialist German Workers' Party . With the great state examination on November 7, 1935, Ehmke completed his training and, with the appointment as government assessor , transferred to the Prussian administrative service on May 1, 1936.

Career

Ehmke's administrative career began in April 1937 with a job at the Hanover District Office , from where he moved to the Aachen government in November of the same year . There he received on August 24, 1938 the appointment to the government council . From this position, his employer commissioned him from September 1, 1939 to act as a substitute for the administration of the Monschau district office, after the district administrator there, Kurt Dingerdissen , had been called up for military service at the beginning of the war. After the attack on Belgium by the German Reich on May 10, 1940, Ehmke was entrusted with the provisional administration of the Malmedy district annexed by the German Reich on May 28, 1940, even before its unconditional surrender. His final appointment followed on August 28, 1941, with effect from September 1, 1941. At the same time he again took over the administration of the Monschau district, which in the meantime was again provided by Kurt Dingerdissen from January 2, 1941 to March 27, 1942.

In the course of 1942 Ehmke was also called up for military service. The administration of the Malmedy district was taken over by the Eupener District Administrator Felix Seulen . Ehmke fell on March 6, 1943. His grave is near Petrovsky.

On April 30, 1937, Heinz Ehmke married Lieschen Körner in Albersdorf (born on January 13, 1908 in Heide ). He was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church .

literature

  • Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 734-735 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816-1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 426-427 .
  2. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 745 .
  3. ↑ Heinz Ehmke , on volksbund.de, accessed on January 12, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ehmke, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator and administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1943
Place of death Petrovsky