Hermann Schwidden

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Hermann Josef Schwidden (born May 11, 1882 in Grevenbroich-Gilverath , † May 13, 1958 in Cologne ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Career

Schwidden joined the Prussian civil service as a court assessor in 1911. From 1919 to 1921 he was a public prosecutor in Cologne. He was then employed as a councilor in Buer (from 1921), in Aachen (from 1922) and Münster (from 1923), from 1924 as senior government councilor in Aachen and from 1925 in Arnsberg . From 1927 he was a government director in the police headquarters and from 1928 in the building and finance department in Berlin. In 1930 he took over the office of government vice-president in Hildesheim . After the National Socialists came to power, he was given early retirement in 1933. Between 1936 and 1945 he worked as a lawyer in Cologne.

After the end of the Second World War, he was appointed Vice President of the Government in Cologne in May 1945 and in 1947 in the same function in Düsseldorf . He was also a trustee of the Westdeutsche Bodenkreditanstalt . After his final retirement in 1952, he worked as managing director of the Cologne dairy, united farmers, and from 1953 as a freelancer for Rhein Energie AG .

Since 1902 he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Rheno-Guestfalia Kiel.

In 1924 he married Gertrud Ida Pfeiffer. Schwidden died two days after his 76th birthday in his apartment in Cologne-Bayenthal .

Honors

literature

  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who ?: the German Who's Who. - Berlin: Arani, 1955

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate No. 913 from May 14, 1958, registry office Cologne I Altstadt. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwidden, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwidden, Hermann Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Grevenbroich-Gilverath
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1958
Place of death Cologne