Hugo Rosendahl

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Hugo Rosendahl (born December 28, 1884 in Sterkrade , † April 23, 1964 in Essen ; full name: Franz Hugo Rosendahl ) was a German lawyer and local politician ( center ). From 1931 to 1933 he was Lord Mayor of Koblenz , from 1945 to 1946 Lord Mayor of Essen and there from 1945 to 1950 City Director .

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As the son of an engineer, Rosendahl attended high schools in Duisburg and Mülheim an der Ruhr . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Philipps University in Marburg , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 1907 he passed the first state examination in law. After receiving his doctorate from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in August 1910 , he went to his hometown of Sterkrade as an assessor in 1913 . From August 3, 1914 to July 31, 1915, he took part in the First World War as a lieutenant in the reserve . In 1915 he became first alderman in Sterkrade . He was then on June 19, 1916 Mayor in Andernach and on March 1, 1921 Mayor in Hamborn . After the unification of Hamborn with Duisburg in 1929, he lost this office.

Between 1931 and 1933 Rosendahl was mayor of Koblenz. After being there after the seizure of power of the Nazis had to resign for political reasons, resigned, he settled in food in the spring 1934 as a lawyer down. From 1936 to 1942 he was also managing director of the Winkel & Co. construction company in Duisburg.

On May 20, 1945, he was appointed Lord Mayor of Essen by the American military government. After he was replaced by Heinz Renner on February 6, 1946 , he took over the post of senior city director until he retired on August 31, 1950.

From 1950 to 1955, Rosendahl was a member of the board of the Essen-based energy supplier RWE . He was also a member of several supervisory and advisory boards of other companies and institutions. He was also president of the regional association of the German Red Cross from 1946, and also chairman of the association for the preservation of the Essen Minster from 1946 .

Removal of the mayor of Koblenz

The city council elected Rosendahl on July 8, 1931 as Lord Mayor of Koblenz. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists notified Karl Carius , Group spokesman of the Nazi Party in the City Council, on March 7, 1933 Mayor, that the next day the swastika flag on the Koblenz City Hall should be hoisted. Rosendahl contradicted the plan and invoked the flag decree of the new government. Only the flags of Prussia and the city of Koblenz are allowed.

On March 8, 1933, the NSDAP held a rally for the city council election on March 12, 1933 on Jesuitenplatz. During the event, an SA troop broke into the mayor's office and arrested Rosendahl. He was forced to watch the rally from the window of the town hall. This is where Carius spoke, who insulted the Lord Mayor in the worst possible way and declared him deposed. Rosendahl still tried to complain to the Prussian Interior Minister Hermann Göring about this treatment. But it was useless and he could not prevent his compulsory leave of absence, because on March 16 Göring appointed Otto Wittgen provisionally as Lord Mayor. On August 1, 1933, Rosendahl was officially retired.

These events led on March 7, 2003 to a meeting between the grandson of Karl Carius and the CDU parliamentary group chairman in the city council, Michael Hört . Achim Carius presented the city of Koblenz with a letter of apology for his grandfather's actions. In it he wrote: “The city and its head were not only humiliated, the measures also marked the beginning of a twelve-year dictatorship in this city. Even if I personally reject the inheritance of ancestral guilt, I, as my grandfather's eldest grandson, ask the city and the descendants of Dr. Rosendahl for my apologies. "

Honors

literature

  • Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads. People of the city's history. Namesake for streets and squares. 2nd revised and expanded edition, Verlag für Werbung Blätter GmbH, Mülheim-Kärlich 2005.
  • Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz. (Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt)
    • Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X .
    • Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5 .
  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen, Historical Association for the City and Abbey of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
  • Essen personalities. Biographical essays on the administrative and cultural history of Essen, Schmidt-Verlag, Neustadt / Aisch 1986.

Individual evidence

  1. Stadtarchiv Koblenz (ed.): Stadtchronik 2003. P. 13 f. ( online as PDF, 612 kB)