Hugo Mönnig

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Hugo Mönnig (born May 22, 1864 in Kalkar , † May 8, 1950 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German lawyer and politician in the Center Party , after the Second World War in the CDU .

Life

He was born on May 22, 1864 in Kalkar, Lower Rhine, as the son of the doctor Balduin Mönnig and Helene Dorsemagen. Mönnig studied law at the universities of Berlin and Bonn . Before moving to Cologne, he worked as a court assessor at the district court of Kleve from 1894 . In 1896 he did the same as other relatives and moved to Cologne. From then on Mönnig worked as a lawyer. From 1902 to 1933 he was a city councilor for the center faction, of which he was chairman from 1913. In addition, Mönnig was a member of the Rhineland Provincial Parliament from 1908 to 1933, where he also chaired the parliamentary group towards the end of his term of office.

After the First World War , there were strong separatist efforts in the Rhineland between 1918 and 1924. Mönnig worked consistently against such intentions, while he favored the establishment of a separate federal state of Rhineland in order to prevent the annexation of his homeland by the French occupying forces. He negotiated on this matter with the French Rhineland Commissioner Paul Tirard and the Reich government. During the Weimar Republic he was a member of the Prussian State Council (1921 to 1933), provincial chairman of his party (1922 to 1933), deputy chairman of the entire party, member of the board of the German and Prussian City Councils. 1927 awarded him the University of Cologne , the honorary doctorate of law.

Grave of the Mönnig family

He always turned down offers made to him to become Reich or Prussian Minister of State, because he felt connected to local politics. In his capacity as partner and managing director of the Cologne Görres-Haus as well as publisher of the "Kölnische Volkszeitung", the new National Socialist rulers initiated criminal proceedings against him for alleged fraudulent bankruptcy. The proceedings ended in an acquittal for Mönnig and should be seen as an attempt to settle accounts with the dignitaries of political Catholicism, which remained the strongest force in the Rhineland even in the last elections of the Weimar Republic . However, the NSDAP had to realize that, as in the case of Konrad Adenauer , who as Lord Mayor of Cologne was a close confidante of Mönnig, too harsh action against functionaries of the Center Party could cause resentment in the population of the Rhineland. After the Second World War, Mönnig joined the CDU together with the majority of former members of the Center Party. In 1946, when he was already completely blind, he co-founded the Kölnische Rundschau .

Mönnig died a few days before his 86th birthday and was buried in the family grave at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 82).

Honors

In the Rhineland, two streets were named after Hugo Mönnig. In Cologne Longerich wearing Mönnigstraße his name. In 1930 he was made an honorary citizen of his native Kalkar; there is the Dr.-Hugo-Mönnig-Strasse .

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SURNAME Mönnig, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalkar
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1950
Place of death bad Godesberg