Johannes Gronowski

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Johannes Gronowski (born February 4, 1874 in Graudenz ; † August 27, 1958 in Paderborn ) was a German politician ( center and CDU ).

Life

Gronowski came from a humble background, his father died before he was born. After elementary school he learned the trade of machine and building fitter in Berlin . He further qualified in evening courses organized by the Catholic trade union movement. Under the influence of the educational work of the " People's Association for Catholic Germany " founded in 1890 , Gronowski set up the first "People's Office" in Dortmund, which advised workers on social security and occupational safety issues. In 1902 he took over the management of the newly established workers' secretariat in Dortmund-Hörde. Four years later he founded the first Catholic workers' association in Dortmund.

politics

In 1905 Gronowski was elected to the Dortmund city ​​council as a member of the center and to the Prussian House of Representatives on June 16, 1908 , to which he belonged until 1918. After he had been a member of the Prussian state constitution-making assembly since 1919, he was a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1921 to 1933 and was elected to both the party and parliamentary committee. From 1922 to 1933 he was also President of the Prussian Province of Westphalia . He was particularly committed to socio-political issues and was more likely to be assigned to the left wing of the center. After the National Socialists came to power, he was put into temporary retirement on February 22, 1933. Gronowski was one of the leading members of the Cologne Circle . After the Second World War he was one of the founders of the CDU in the British zone of occupation. From 1948 to 1951 he was state chairman of the CDU Westphalia-Lippe . From 1946 to 1950 and from December 28, 1953, when he replaced the late Josef Schrage , until July 4, 1954, he was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . The state parliament elected him in 1949 as a member of the first Federal Assembly , which elected Theodor Heuss as Federal President .

Gronowski died on August 17, 1958 of a serious heart condition.

literature

  • Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections in 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , pp. 78–80.

Web links

Commons : Johannes Gronowski  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Joos: This is how I saw her. People and events. Augsburg, 1958, pp. 33-37.
  2. ↑ Horst Möller: The Prussian Upper Presidents of the Weimar Republic as an administrative elite. In: Klaus Schwabe (ed.): The Prussian Oberpräsident 1815–1945 (= German leadership classes in the modern age. Vol. 15 = Büdinger research on social history. 1981). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1985, ISBN 3-7646-1857-4 , pp. 183-217.
  3. ^ Karl Teppe: Johannes Gronowski. In: Walter Först (Ed.): From thirty years. Rhenish-Westphalian politician portraits. Cologne 1979, pp. 21-37.
  4. ↑ Gronowski, Johannes . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Gaa to Gymnich] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 402–403 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 297 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Gronowski, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center, CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Graudenz
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1958
Place of death Paderborn