Helmut Janßen

Helmut Janßen (born November 29, 1910 in Jever ; † July 20, 1992 ) was senior district director of the Rotenburg (Wümme) district .

Life

Janßen came from a family of teachers. He graduated from the Mariengymnasium in Jever in 1929 and then studied law and political science at the universities of Jena and Göttingen . During his studies in 1929 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar . After his legal clerkship at the Oldenburg judicial administration and the second state examination in law, he became an assessor at the Cloppenburg district office . On July 1, 1940, he was appointed to the government council and on the same day drafted into the armed forces. After the end of the war he worked in the district administrations of Oldenburg and Vechta. On October 1, 1950, he was appointed district councilor in the district of Cloppenburg. The district council of the district of Rotenburg elected him on June 8, 1951 as senior district director. In 1962 he was re-elected for a further twelve years, the term of office subsequently extended to the age of 65 due to the upcoming district reform. In 1977 Janßen retired.

His term of office included the planning and expansion of the road network and the reorganization of the water management with the establishment of eleven water and soil associations and the drinking water supply association. Janßen promoted the settlement of industrial and commercial enterprises and tourism in the district. He also took care of the takeover of the vocational schools and secondary general education public schools in the sponsorship of the district and the establishment of the district music school in Rotenburg. The partnership with the French region of Ste-Foy-le-Grand also goes back to his initiative.

In 1953 Janßen was a key co-founder, chairman and later honorary chairman of the Rotenburg / Wümme Heimatbund, which under his leadership developed into one of the largest clubs of its kind in northern Lower Saxony with at times more than 1,600 members. In 1954 the local history museum was founded, later an institute for local history research. In 1979 he was jointly responsible for the rescue of the Rudolf Schäfer House, one of the oldest Rotenburg houses and the last home of the church painter Rudolf Schäfer , in which a small town history museum was set up.

In addition to his own home history, Janßen was also involved in East German cultural work. In 1955, the district took on the sponsorship of the East Prussian district of Angerburg .

Janßen was a member of the Advisory Board in 1964, an honorary member in 1975, and Vice-President of the Lower Saxony Homeland Federation in 1986 . In 1982 he became chairman of the Museum Association for Lower Saxony and Bremen. He was also a long-standing member of the board of the Stade Regional Association . He was chairman of the Rotenburg district association in the German Red Cross, member of the board of trustees of the Deaconess Motherhouse Association and second chairman of the Rotenburg Tourist Association.

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1977)
• Lower Saxony Cross of Merit 1st Class (1980)
• Honorary Citizen of the City of Rotenburg (1980)

literature

• Günter Petschel: Helmut Janßen † . In: Rotenburger Schriften 77 (1992), pp. 83-87

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Burschenschafter Stammrolle 1991. p. 175.