Johannes Niggemann

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Johannes Niggemann (born November 24, 1898 in Elkeringhausen ; † June 6, 1962 there ) was a German local politician ( CDU ) and Senator of the city of Hanover, as well as a publicist and journalist .

Life

Johannes Niggemann was born in Elkeringhausen in the late founding period of the German Empire . After graduating from school and after the end of the First World War , at the beginning of the Weimar Republic in 1921 he obtained his municipal civil servant diploma in Cologne and began his professional career that same year. Also in the early 1920s studied Niggemann at the Universities of Münster , Cologne and Giessen and received his doctorate just before the peak of the German hyperinflation in May 1923 at the University of Giessen on the self-government of the German economy to Dr. phil. or to the Dr. rer. pole.

After working for several months as a trainee at a bank in 1923, Niggemann turned to journalism in December of the same year in the Siegerland and Ruhr area . Until shortly after the seizure of power by the National Socialists he worked until 1933/34 in food as chief editor of " Steeler newspaper ". His journalistic activities, which continued until the end of his life, were only interrupted at the time of National Socialism by brief - politically conditioned - “compulsory breaks”. In the middle of the Second World War he went to Hanover in 1942 as a “refugee in questions of faith” to take over the main editorial office of the publishing house that was published by Schlüterschen Buchdruckerei and, until 1945, so-called Lower Saxony Economic Gazette.

Even before the end of the war, a group of 13 entrepreneurs and business representatives met in Hanover in April 1945 to discuss reconstruction and a new beginning as well as a possible future that could be shaped differently. This group included the owner of the Orpil soap factory and later Lord Mayor Franz Henkel , the cement entrepreneur and later member of the Bundestag Christian Kuhlemann , the Bahlsen managing director Kurt Pentzlin , the wholesaler and later co-founder of Deutsche Messe AG Eduard Bergmann , who later became the managing director of the IHK Hannover Hans -Joachim Fricke and - so far only evidenced by evidence - "[...] perhaps Johannes Niggemann, the first editor-in-chief of the Lower Saxony economy ", as the magazine of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, which has been published since May 15, 1946, was called: not at all for the newsletter of the time Founded chambers of industry and commerce in Lower Saxony - Braunschweig , Emden , Hanover , Hildesheim , Lüneburg , Oldenburg and Osnabrück  - Niggemann had received the license from the British military authorities , but did not appear as a licensee until 1948 in the imprint of the paper.

Sometimes with a pointed pen, the publicist Niggemann “fearlessly” and responsibly criticized on all sides. His motto was:

"Not: 'What do I have from the state?', But: 'What am I to the state?'"

Also in 1946, Niggemann joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) as one of the first personalities. From the year the Federal Republic of Germany was founded , from November 28, 1948 until his death, he was also a member of the City Council of Hanover and during this period was, with a short interruption, chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the city council of Hanover, and at times also a member on the board of the CDU in the Hanover district . In 1949 Johannes Niggemann was one of the co-founders of the Heimatwerk Hannover housing cooperative , which he then headed for life as its chairman of the supervisory board .

In the Christian faith active, the committed Catholic, local politics, among others, in the Committee on Housing Promotion of Lower Saxony's capital. In accordance with the social policy that was Catholic at the time, Niggemann also campaigned - in addition to property promotion and employee equity participation in companies - to promote residential property , in addition to housing construction and the financial sector in the interests of the common good, but also for the reconstruction of the air raids Hanover destroyed schools. From April 27, 1955, Niggeman was available as Senator for the City of Hanover. He was the mayor's representative from June 29, 1955 to November 27, 1956 in the transition from Wilhelm Weber to August Holweg .

In 1956 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in Cologne on December 8, 1956 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He belonged to the Commandery Braunschweig.

Half a year before his death, Niggemann was appointed to the Supervisory Board of Preussag , in which he campaigned in particular for the interests of the small shareholders of the Preussische Bergwerks- und Hütten-Aktiengesellschaft .

Niggemann was a member of the local committee for the 79th Katholikentag in Hanover in 1962, which he did not experience himself. He died on June 6, 1962 "[...] in his homeland" after "long and severe suffering".

Niggemannweg

The Niggemannweg , which was laid out in the Bothfeld district of Hanover in 1963, has since honored Niggemann with its name.

Fonts

  • Self-government of the German handicrafts , 1923
  • Festival edition for the inauguration of the restored chamber building in Hanover , 24 pages, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Hanover 1954

literature

  • Rainer Schulze: Entrepreneurial self-government and politics: the role of the chambers of industry and commerce in Lower Saxony and Bremen as representatives of entrepreneurial interests after the end of the Second World War , Hildesheim: August Lax 1988
  • Klaus Pohlmann: New beginning with conviction ... , in: Niedersächsische Wirtschaft , edition from March 2018, p. 40f.

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to the municipal ordinance of Lower Saxony in force from 1955 onwards, councilors in urban districts were designated as "senators", who as members of the administrative committee had a special significance compared to normal councilors.
  2. ↑ The name Fritz Henkel was probably accidentally mentioned as the "head of the Orpil soap factory"; Compare Klaus Pohlmann: New beginning with conviction ... , in: Niedersächsische Wirtschaft , edition from March 2017, p. 40f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann : Niggemannweg , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 182
  2. ↑ a b c d Obituary notice of the town hall faction and the board of the CDU capital Hanover, represented by Senator Karl Elkart , in the magazine Niedersächsische Wirtschaft (NW) of June 20, 1962, p. 487
  3. ↑ a b c d e Klaus Pohlmann: New beginning with conviction ... , in: Niedersächsische Wirtschaft , edition from March 2017, p. 40f.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Kr .: In the service of self-administration / On the death of our chief editor Dr. Johannes Niggemann , in: Lower Saxony Economy of June 20, 1962, p. 463
  5. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  6. ↑ a b Obituary notice from Schlütersche, Buchdruckerei, Verlagsanstalt, represented by Emil Engelbrecht , in: NW of June 20, 1962, p. 486
  7. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Henkel, Franz Wilhelm , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present . Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 164 and others; limited preview in Google Book search
  8. ^ A b c d progress: Hanover, four years of council work, 1960–1964 , Steinbock 1964
  9. ↑ a b Obituary notice of the capital Hanover, represented by the mayor August Holweg and the city director Martin Neuffer , in the NW of June 20, 1962, p. 488
  10. ↑ Johannes Kirchner : In memory of Dr. Johannes Niggemann , in: 40 years Heimatwerk Hannover. 1949–1989 , commemorative publication for the founding anniversary, ed. from Heimatwerk Hannover, Hannover [1989], p. 27
  11. ^ Preussag obituary notice in the NW of June 20, 1962, p. 487
  12. ↑ memorial IHK Hannover, represented by its president Christian Kuhlemann and General Counsel Hans-Joachim Fricke and - to the Staff Committee - "Dipl-Volksw. Reichart ”, in: NW of June 20, 1962, p. 487
personal data
SURNAME Niggemann, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chief executive of the Hanover Chamber of Crafts, local politician and Senator of the city of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Elkeringhausen
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1962
Place of death Elkeringhausen