Jakob Odenthal

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Jakob Odenthal (* 1886 in Bergisch Gladbach ; † 1954 in Düsseldorf ) was district administrator for the Kempen-Krefeld district from 1929 to 1945.

Life

Jakob Odenthal studied law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and became a member of the Catholic student association AV Guestfalia Tübingen in the CV . He initially worked as a court assessor and after the end of the First World War he worked for the Gergisch-Gladbach city administration, the Cologne tax office and the city of Cologne.

In 1922, Odenthal became provisional district administrator in the district of Crefeld, succeeding Konrad Saaßen ; elected district administrator in May 1923. On July 31, 1929, he was put into temporary retirement; on August 1, 1929 provisionally commissioned with the administration of the district administration in the Kempen-Krefeld district. Under Odenthal, the district of Krefeld and the district of Kempen, the rural communities Neersen and Schiefbahn , the district of Munich-Gladbach and the rural communities Hinsbeck and Leuth , the district of Geldern to form the new district of Kempen-Krefeld with the administrative seat is the municipality of Kempen.

In February 1930 he was appointed district administrator of the Kempen-Krefeld district and held the office until 1945. During his term of office, on January 1, 1934, the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Law of December 15, 1933 was introduced and the municipalities were renamed cities. On November 1, 1934, he implemented the Prussian official regulations of October 8, 1934; on April 1, 1935, he introduced the German municipal code of January 30, 1935 and renamed the rural communities to municipalities. On January 1, 1939, the Kempen-Krefeld district was renamed the Kempen-Krefeld district, which was followed by the incorporation of the municipality and the Viersen district (partially) into the Kempen-Krefeld district on February 1, 1940 . On February 1, 1942, the city and the Munich-Gladbach district were (partially) incorporated into the Kempen-Krefeld district. On January 1, 1945, the district of Kempen-Krefeld in the Prussian Rhine province , district of Düsseldorf , comprised a total of 32 municipalities with administrative headquarters in the city of Kempen on the Lower Rhine.

In 1945 he retired. In 1929 he gave the name to Odenthalstrasse in Krefeld- Fischeln .

Correspondence documents as well as personal documents, documents for denazification and activity reports are administered in the Viersen district archive and in the federal archive.

literature

  • Gerhard Rehm: "Jakob Odenthal, District Administrator of the District of Kempen-Krefeld 1929-1945" , in: Heimatbuch des Kreis Viersen 1995, pp. 27–47
  • A. Jux: "In memory of District Administrator Jakob Odenthal" , Romerike Berge Edition 9, 1959

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “Fischeln: Odenthalstrasse”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Fischeln Citizens' Association, viewed on September 1, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.buergerverein-fischeln.de  
  2. ↑ a b "Landkreis Kempen-Krefeld" , viewed on September 1, 2009
  3. ^ "Finding aid A III 73: copy of private papers 1946-1969 and newspaper clippings" , Archives NRW Stocks, viewed on September 1, 2009
  4. ↑ "In memory of District Administrator Jakob Odenthal"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , BGV Rhein-Berg, viewed on September 1, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / archiv.bgv-rhein-berg.de  


personal data
SURNAME Odenthal, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer, district administrator of the Kempen-Krefeld district
DATE OF BIRTH 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergisch Gladbach
DATE OF DEATH 1954
Place of death Dusseldorf