Hermann Wandersleb

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Hermann Wandersleb

Hermann Wandersleb (born August 22, 1895 in Meiningen , † May 19, 1977 in Bonn ) was a German civil servant .

Life

The son of a surveyor, from 1913, interrupted by the First World War , studied law in Halle (Saale) , Berlin and Heidelberg , where he also received his doctorate. In 1919 he played a leading role in founding the German Student Union , including as chairman of the constitutional committee. His career began in 1923 in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior under Carl Severing . In 1927 he was appointed the youngest Prussian district administrator in the Querfurt district. In 1933, Wandersleb was initially deposed as politically unpopular by the National Socialist rulers and later transferred to Aachen as district administrator "on daily revocation".

After the Second World War , in May 1945, he first became Vice President of the Upper Presidium of the North Rhine Province and from 1946 he played a key role in establishing the state administration there as head of the state chancellery of the newly formed state of North Rhine-Westphalia . In the summer of 1948 he successfully campaigned for Bonn to become the venue for the Parliamentary Council . Together with its chairman Konrad Adenauer , he then succeeded in establishing the city as the provisional federal capital . This earned him the nickname " Bonnifacius " (Bonn-Macher). From May 1949 to November 1949 he headed the Federal Capital Office , which organized the accommodation of the Federation and the Allied High Commission in Bonn and the surrounding area.

From 1949 to 1959, Wandersleb was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Spatial Planning, Building and Urban Development . In this capacity, too, he was particularly responsible for accommodating the newly created federal authorities and their numerous employees. Shortly before reaching the age limit, Paul Lücke , building minister in the Adenauer III cabinet , pushed Wandersleben out of office; he resigned in February 1959. From 1959 until his retirement in 1963 he was managing director of the state-owned company for nuclear research mbH in Karlsruhe.

In 1957, Wandersleb was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a star and shoulder ribbon for his services ; In 1968 the city of Bonn made him an honorary citizen . In addition, a section of federal highway 56 in the city was named after him.

Wandersleb's first marriage was to Elfriede Engler (1895–1970); they had two children. He later married Caitriona Hertz (1919–2002), widow of the Bonn professor and politician Rudolf Hertz (1897–1965).

His grave is in the old cemetery in Bonn.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hermann Wandersleb  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henning Koehler : Adenauer. A political biography. Propylaeen, Berlin 1994, pp. 496-500.
  2. ^ City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt: "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4". The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , pp. 34–42.
  3. ↑ a b Maria Th. Dix: Hermann Wandersleb ( online at www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de)
  4. ↑ Der Spiegel 7/1959, p. 64 ( online )
  5. ↑ bonn.de ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bonn.de
  6. ^ Hermann-Wandersleb-Ring in the Bonn street cadastre
personal data
SURNAME Wandersleb, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiningen
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1977
Place of death Bonn