Johannes Kossen

Johannes Heinrich Anton Kossen (born May 21, 1869 in Sögel ; † February 7, 1934 there ) was a German farmer and politician ( center ).

Life

Johannes Kossen was born the son of a farmer. After attending school, he did military service and completed an agricultural training course. Later he took over the management of his parents' farm in Sögel. In May 1897 he married Theodora Maria Holling (1871–1908), the heiress of the well-known Sögel inn "Hotel zur Post". He thus became a brother-in-law of the influential Emsland center guide and Meppen lawyer Joseph Holling. Since the marriage he had run an inn with an attached hotel, which his wife had brought into the marriage.

From June 1903 to 1918 he was a member of the Reichstag election committee of the Center Party of the 3rd Hanoverian electoral district, the Windthorst constituency, and in 1908 also the electoral committee of the Meppen-Aschendorf-Hümmling state constituency. Around 1902 Kossen was elected to the council of Sögels, in which he remained until his death. For many years he was also chairman of the Sögel community of brands. At the end of November 1918, he became a representative of the Hümmling district committee, to which he belonged until 1933 (from 1932 Aschendorf-Hümmling district committee), head of the district farmers' council for the Hümmling district . In this function, Kossen took the initiative in June 1919 to found an agricultural district association in Hümmling. When it was constituted, he was elected chairman of the new agricultural district association, which he remained until the National Socialist conformity in 1933, when he was ousted. In September 1919, at the founding meeting of the district association of the Hümmling Center Party, he was appointed district chairman and representative of the Hümmling in the "Emsland" center association, the center party's management committee for the Aschendorf, Grafschaft Bentheim, Hümmling, Meppen and Lingen districts. In addition, Kossen Hümmlinger was a representative on the board of the Center Party of the Weser-Ems constituency. He held all functions until 1933. He also ran for the Center Party in elections. He belonged to the Prussian state parliament from November 26, 1931, when he replaced the deceased MP Friedrich Grebe , until 1932.

In addition to his political activities, the Hümmlinger was also involved in the region's agricultural associations. Since it was founded in 1920, he was a member of the board of the "Emsland farmers' association". In 1926, through the vote of the Hümmlinger Landwirtschaft, he became a member of the board of the “Main Agricultural Association for the Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen and the Counties of Bentheim and Lingen”, the leading organization of the agricultural cooperative in Emsland. At the same time, Kossen belonged to the Hanover Chamber of Agriculture for many years .

Johannes Kossen had been married to Hermine Holling since 1911 and had five children.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 . P. 201.
• Helmut Lensing: Art. Kossen, Johannes, in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.): Emsländische Geschichte, Vol. 6, Dohren 1997, pp. 237–238.