Hermann Pütz

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Hermann Pütz

Hermann Josef Puetz (* 17th June 1878 in Dusseldorf , † 12. April 1928 in Aachen ) was a Prussian administrative officer and district administrator of the district of Aachen .

Life

Origin and education

Hermann Pütz was the son of the Secret Medical Council and Dr. med. in Düsseldorf, Josef Pütz and Maria Elisabeth, born. Savages. But he came from a family in the Aachen district. After attending grammar school, which he left at Easter 1901 when he passed the final exams, he studied from 1901 to 1904 at the universities of Tübingen (member of the student association AV Guestfalia Tübingen ), Berlin and Bonn ( student association Bavaria , April 26, 1906, band philistine ) Law and Political Science . After graduating, he entered the Prussian judicial service with the swearing-in as a court trainee (March 9, 1905). On July 10, 1910, he was appointed court assessor .

Career

Subsequently, however, Pütz did not take up any work at a court, but instead took up an “informational job” in the local government (mayor Altenessen ). After his hiring as a legal assistant (March 1, 1911), he was appointed salaried alderman on January 6, 1913. But he left Altenessen before it was incorporated into the city of Essen on April 1, 1915 , when he was elected mayor of the city Bergisch Gladbach on July 14, 1914. Hermann Pütz was elected as the new District Administrator on May 3 , 1914, succeeding Jürgen Freiherrn von Funck , who had headed the District Office of the Aachen District until April 1, 1920. After his temporary entry into service (July 5, 1920), the definitive appointment followed on November 26, 1920 . Hermann Pütz died on duty. After his death, the district council wanted to elect the district syndic Adolf Richter as his successor, whom Pütz had brought from Bergisch Gladbach to Aachen. But the State Ministry refused.

Classen as Aachen district administrator

Immediately after taking up the job, Hermann Pütz began with the first sustainably effective infrastructure measures. In 1920 he initiated a “trend-setting” housing construction program in what was then the second largest district in the Rhine province with 181,000 inhabitants . He also arranged for a district participation in the future brown coal power plant in Weisweiler and in other related companies for long-term capital procurement. He gained popularity with the population in the hard winter of the war in 1920/21, when he drove to neighboring countries without a passport and bought 125 wagons of potatoes for the starving population. He also founded the Süssendell children's recreation center and the Rolandseck mothers' rest home . The horse show in the Soers is one of the numerous ideas he has implemented .

Memberships
family

The Catholic Hermann Pütz married on August 14, 1912 in Düsseldorf (?) Adelheid Luthe (* January 12, 1886, † after 1928), the daughter of the Senate President Julius Luthe († January 8, 1907 in Düsseldorf) and Antonie, née Piepenbrock († January 31, 1927 in Düsseldorf).

Aftermath

In 1997 the “Prize of the District of Aachen in memoriam District Administrator Hermann-Josef Pütz” of the CHIO Aachen was donated in his honor .

literature

  • District of Aachen (Ed.): 150 years of the district of Aachen. Aachen 1966, p. 54f (with picture).
  • Gerhard Geurts : Vision and energy, Hermann Pütz – Mayor in Bergisch Gladbach 1914–20. in: Home between Sülz and Dhünn. History and folklore in Bergisch Gladbach and the surrounding area. Issue 9, Bergisch Gladbach 2002, pp. 2–13.
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e 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 .
  2. ↑ a b c Aachen district (ed.): 150 years Aachen district
  3. ↑ "How to invent a 'World Equestrian Festival' - The Aachen show jumping, riding and driving tournament from 1924 to 1939" (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  4. ^ "S4 Prize of the Aachen District in memoriam District Administrator Hermann-Josef Pütz" , CHIO Aachen
  5. ^ Prize of the Aachen district in memoriam District Administrator Hermann-Josef Pütz
personal data
SURNAME Pütz, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pütz, Hermann Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Bergisch Gladbach; District Administrator of the District of Aachen (center)
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1928
Place of death Aachen