Henry Peter Rickmers

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Henry Peter Rickmers (1993)

Henry Peter Rickmers (born December 14, 1919 on Heligoland ; † May 6, 2013 there ) was a German local politician who played a key role in the reconstruction of his home island in the post-war period .

Life

He comes from an old Heligoland Rickmers family that can be found on the island from 1719. His father owned a duty-free grocery store in what is now Lung Wai. According to him, he went at the age of 16 years from Bad Segeberg , where he attended the German high school until graduation in 1939. Rickmers was after the subsequent duty time when Reich Labor Service for the Navy convened. Since 1944 commander of a minesweeper , he was involved in the Hannibal company. His boat rescued shipwrecked people from the Gustloff . After the war, he was unable to return to his home island because it had become uninhabitable due to the bombing of the Royal Air Force on April 18, 1945.

From the winter semester 1945/46 Rickmers studied law at the University of Hamburg . The first state examination on November 16, 1948 was followed by a legal clerkship in the area of ​​the Higher Regional Court of Celle, from August 1, 1950, he continued it in the Pinneberg district, ultimately without a degree. In Cuxhaven, where his parents lived, he was elected chairman of the Hallunner Moats uun Tress club , a center for the evacuated Heligoland who lived in 180 localities. From November 1, 1950, he headed the Helgoland office in Pinneberg. As an administrative employee of the federal government in the Pinneberg district, he later had to arrange for her to return. He operated the clearance of Heligoland on March 1, 1952. Used by the British military government as head of the Heligoland administration, he was instrumental in the reconstruction of the island. The demolition of bunkers on Heligoland made reconstruction even more difficult.

When the municipality of Helgoland was officially founded in 1956, the islanders elected Rickmers as mayor . During his 24-year tenure, he welcomed Ludwig Erhard , Erich Mende and Willy Brandt as guests on the island. The regular visits to Hamburger SV with the team around Uwe Seeler and Willi Schulz were important to him . As a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany , he represented the community from 1959 to 1964 and from 1980 to 1994 in the Pinneberg district assembly .

His wife Erni Rickmers , who was ten years younger than him , built the Insulaner apartment house. She was the daughter of the electrician Ludwig Krüss and sister of James Krüss . He survived her by a year and left two children and six grandchildren.

Honorary positions

Honors

Works

Independent works by him are not verifiable, but interview volumes with him as a conversation partner and titles, which, due to his prominent name, suggested a higher circulation.

  • Henry P. Rickmers, Frank Woosnam with the collaboration of Beate Griese: Helgoland - an island on the way to Europe . Otterndorf 1992
  • 500 tips for Heligoland , 7th edition. 1982 (up to the 6th edition, Gerhard Eckert is named as the author )
  • Christian Müller and Henry P. Rickmers: Everything is different on Heligoland , Hamburg 2002

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ http://ofb.genealogy.net/famreport.php?ofb=helgoland&ID=I638&nachname=RICKMERS&modus=&lang=de
  2. ↑ here and in the following after: Henry P. Rickmers, Frank Woosnam with the collaboration of Beate Griese: Helgoland - an island on the way to Europe . Otterndorf 1992, page 15. There is no evidence of a German secondary school in Bad Segeberg
  3. ↑ 50 years ago 1945: Flight, expulsion, end of war: Exhibition from March 25 to November 19, 1995, Warendorf 1995
  4. ^ Message from Frank Botter, former mayor of Helgoland
  5. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt from November 15, 2018 [1]
  6. ↑ a b Hamburger Abendblatt dated May 7, 2013
  7. ↑ Elmshorner Nachrichten of May 8, 2013, p. 10
  8. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt from November 15, 2018 [2]
  9. ↑ Woosnam had ordered the demolition of Heligoland in 1947
personal data
SURNAME Rickmers, Henry Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Heligoland
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 2013
Place of death Heligoland