Hermann von Lüninck

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Hermann Joseph Anton Maria Freiherr von Lüninck (born May 3, 1893 in Ostwig , † May 16, 1975 in Engelskirchen ) was a German administrative lawyer and agricultural functionary.

Life and work

Von Lüninck came from the old Lower Rhine noble family von Lüninck . His brother was the President of the Province of Westphalia , Ferdinand Freiherr von Lüninck . After passing the state examination in law and then participating in the First World War , von Lüninck worked as an unskilled worker in the Prussian Ministry of Commerce from 1920 to 1922. From 1923 to 1925 he was deputy general secretary of the Rhenish farmers' associations and in 1925 was elected President of the politically influential Rhenish Chamber of Agriculture .

In the same year he married Ferdinandine Bertha Countess von und zu Westerholt and Gysenberg (1897–1945). The marriage had seven children.

In 1929, in addition to the office of President of the Rhenish Chamber of Agriculture, he also took on the office of Executive Chairman of the Rhenish Land Federation and in 1930 that of the Chairman of the Association of Rhenish Agricultural Cooperatives. As a member of the DNVP and an influential functionary in the Reichslandbund, von Lüninck was designated as Reich Food Minister of a right-wing conservative Reich government several times in the early 1930s .

On June 3, 1932, he wrote a letter to State Secretary Otto Meissner to transfer government power to the NSDAP . However , he refused to sign the industrialists' application.

In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and gave up his functions in agricultural policy when he was appointed President of the Rhine Province by the Prussian Prime Minister Hermann Göring as a personal concession to the German national coalition partner . After constant quarrels with the local National Socialist leaders, he was replaced in 1935 by the Essen NSDAP Gauleiter Josef Terboven . Until 1937 he remained a member of the Prussian State Council without any influence .

In the Beck / Goerdeler shadow cabinet , von Lüninck had been planned as a potential food minister in the event of a successful coup d'état following the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 . After the attack failed, he was arrested while visiting his brother Ferdinand, who was in custody. However, a trial against him did not take place. Von Lüninck was released from the Lehrter Strasse cell prison on April 22, 1945 .

After 1945, until his death, he was chairman of the Guard Rifle Federation, an association of former members of the Prussian Guard Rifle Battalion .

He entered the North Rhine-Westphalia state list of the DKP-DRP unsuccessfully for the 1949 federal election .

Hermann von Lüninck died on May 16, 1975 at Alsbach Castle on the outskirts of Engelskirchen in the Bergisches Land .

Works

  • For truth, freedom and Law! Selection of lectures and memoranda, 1973.

literature

  • Heinz Hürten:  Lüninck, Hermann Freiherr. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 470 ( digitized version ).
  • Kordula Kühlem: Ferdinand Freiherr von Lüninck (1888–1944), in: District history in the mirror of biography. The district administrators and senior district directors of the Rhein-Kreis Neuss and its legal predecessors from 1816 to the present, ed. from the Rhein-Kreis Neuss - The District Administrator - Archive in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss - Stephen Schröder. Publications of the archive in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss. Vol. 2, Neuss 2019, pp. 260-279.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hermann Baron von Luninck on thepeerage.com , accessed on October 4, 2015.
  2. Eberhard Czichon : Who helped Hitler to power? Cologne 1967, p. 62 f.
  3. ^ Letter from Hermann Freiherr von Lüninck to Kurt Freiherr von Schröder dated November 15, 1932; printed in: Czichon, p. 68 f.
  4. Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
  5. Lüninck, Hermann von . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Laade to Lux] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 772–773 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 308 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).