Hermann Nellen

Hermann Nellen (born 7. May 1910 in Dusseldorf , died on November 2 1982 ) was a Prussian district administrator of the district of Saarburg 1941 to 1945 and most recently Assistant Secretary at the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

Origin and education

Hermann Nellen was the son of the teacher of the same name Hermann Nellen (born 1882) and his wife Margarethe Nellen, nee Weidtmann. His father had passed the examination as a secondary school teacher in Koblenz in 1905 and also the rector examination in 1910. In 1912 he was transferred to the local Evangelical elementary school with upper classes in Bacharach , where he was responsible. Due to the places where his father worked, Hermann Nellen grew up in Koblenz and Bacharach, in Koblenz he also attended the Kaiser-Wilhelm Realgymnasium , which he left when he passed the school- leaving examination in March 1929, and subsequently studied law and political science at the universities in Bonn , Hamburg and Cologne . Immediately after graduating from high school, he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) for the first time from April 1 to November 1, 1929 . The reasons for his temporary non-membership are not documented, but he rejoined the NSDAP on May 1, 1931.

After passing the first state legal examination and being appointed court trainee (June 30, 1933), Nellen moved to the general state administration on April 27, 1934, being appointed government trainee. After passing the state examination , on December 17, 1936, he was also appointed government assessor . As such, he was employed as an unskilled worker at the Cosel district office and the Potsdam government , before he was transferred to the Oberpräsidium of the Rhine Province in Koblenz on September 16, 1939, just a few days after the start of the Second World War . There he received on December 1, 1939 the appointment as a member of the government , with work in the office in Essen .

Career

After the previous district administrator of the Saarburg district, Norbert Hering , was transferred on November 5, 1941 to the Upper Presidium of Hanover, Hermann Nellen was entrusted with the provisional administration of the district on November 8, 1941 as his successor. Because of his military service , however, he had not started his administrative service since May 1, 1941. After his permanent appointment as district administrator in Saarburg on July 29, 1943, the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 was followed by his formal dismissal from office.

After 1945

While Hermann Nellen initially worked in the private sector from 1946, he returned to the public service in 1948 when he joined the North Rhine-Westphalia State Food Office. In 1950 he moved to the higher-level department, the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests, which at that time was under the direction of Heinrich Lübke , who later became President of the Federal Republic of Germany. Appointed ministerial director there in September 1964, Nellen retired on June 30, 1972 .

family

Hermann Nellen, who originally belonged to the Evangelical Church and later converted to Catholicism, married Annemarie Sens, the daughter of the gardener Otto Friedrich Sens and his wife Winfrida Wilhelmine Sens, née Goltz, on December 10, 1939 in Linz. In the second he was married to Grete Schwirblat.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} 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. 652 f .
2. ↑ Hermann Nellen ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at bbf.dipf.de, accessed on February 9, 2017.