Johannes Nepomuk Maria Falk

Johannes Nepomuk Maria Falk (born March 23, 1882 Mainz ; † January 14, 1964 Frankfurt am Main ) was Lord Mayor of Bonn from 1923 to 1931 .

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The son of a family of printers and publishers from Mainz studied law and economics in Strasbourg, Freiburg and Giessen. In 1906 he obtained his doctorate jur.

He began his professional activity as a research assistant at the municipal authorities in Fulda. Then he moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he was promoted to the magistrate's syndic. Above all, his services in the municipal reorganization and in founding the university there are to be emphasized. In the First World War he took part as an officer. In 1919 he went to Bochum, where he was deputy mayor and deputy mayor.

In 1922 he was elected by the Bonn city ​​council as the successor to Fritz Bottler as a civil servant mayor. In January 1923 he took up his new office. He immediately came into conflict with the French occupying forces, who tried him before a court martial and sentenced him to several years in prison. For health reasons, he only spent a few months in prison and was then referred to the university hospital. In autumn 1924 he was released again. In 1925 he was able to organize the millennium celebration of the Rhineland and in 1927 the German Beethoven Festival in Bonn. For his services to the city's famous son, the Beethoven-Haus Bonn awarded him honorary membership.

Health reasons, grueling accusations and legal disputes with the National Socialists, but also differences with the government made him resign prematurely from his post in 1931.

Falk moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he died on January 14, 1964.

The Mainz journalist and member of the Hessian state parliament Johann Falk (1825–1905) was his grandfather.

Falk was a member of the Catholic student associations KStV Nassovia Gießen, KStV Frankonia-Strasbourg Frankfurt and KStV Brisgovia Freiburg as well as honorary philistines of the KStV Görres Bonn and KStV Staufia-Strasbourg Frankfurt.

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Obituaries in the Bonner Rundschau and in the Generalanzeiger (January 1964)