Johannes Bentlage

Johannes (baptized name: Heinrich Hermann Johannes) Bentlage (born September 17, 1888 in Mariendrebber ; † December 23, 1950 in Schleswig ) was a Prussian district administrator.

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After graduating from high school in Osnabrück, Johannes Bentlage studied law at the Universities of Tübingen , Paris and Göttingen and became a trainee lawyer at the Higher Regional Court of Celle on November 14, 1913 . From May 18, 1915 until the end of the war, he took part in the First World War. Appointed court assessor on December 30, 1920, he initially worked as an assistant judge in Isenhagen and Celle. He switched to the administration and in April 1922 became a government assessor at the Stade district government , until in October 1922 he was commissioned to manage the Genthin district office on a representative basis . In May 1923 he was definitely the district administrator and remained in office until August 8, 1925, when he was entrusted with the representative administration of the Hamm district office. In February 1926 he was definitely district administrator of the Hamm district (renamed Unna district in 1930 ) and remained in this office until March 25, 1933, when he was sent into temporary retirement due to the provisions of the law for the restoration of the civil service . After the transfer to the Schleswig district government in August 1933, he became a member of the government council and head of the Schleswig government's municipal examination office a year later.

Promoted to the Upper Government Council in March 1939, the decree on delegation to the Karlovy Vary government came on December 7, 1941 . Here he became government director in October 1942 and held this position until the end of the war. After the war, Bentlage was reinstated as a councilor and head of the municipal examination office of the Schleswig government. He switched to the state administration (1947 state government) and (1948 state audit chamber) and was promoted to the senior government council on December 18, 1947. He retired at the end of 1950 at his own request. Bentlage was a member of the DDP and a candidate for the Westphalian Provincial Parliament.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , pp. 118f. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16).