Johannes Renken

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Johannes Renken (born May 6, 1894 in Insel bei Soltau ; † October 10, 1988 there ) was a German politician ( ChrsV , CDU ).

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Renken grew up as the son of a free farmer. He was trained at the elementary school in Insel and at the agricultural school in Soltau. He later attended a missionary seminar in Hermannsburg in the Celle district. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, in which he fought on the western front with the rifle regiment No. 108 in Dresden.

After the war, Renken returned to agriculture. In 1922 he took over his parents' farm in Insel, Soltau district. In 1923 he became community leader and representative of the Insel Soil Improvement Cooperative. In 1929 he became a member of the community committee and the district council member. He also became chairman of the supervisory boards of the agricultural reference and sales cooperative Schneverdingen and the dairy cooperative Schneverdingen and the savings and loan fund Schneverdingen.

In the Reichstag election of September 1930, Renken entered the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic as a Reich election proposal from the Christian Social People's Service (ChrsV) , from which he left again on the occasion of the Reichstag election of July 1932. His candidacy was particularly supported by the regional church communities in the Hanover constituencies. According to Der Spiegel , Renken excelled in his home town of Insel as an “unshakable warner against the Nazis”. As a result, during the Nazi era, Renken faced persistent harassment and repression. The district farmer leader Hermann Lütjens certified Renken as "suitability for a concentration camp" as early as 1933 and systematically drove him out of the island. In 1939 Renken was declared “not suitable for farming” and had to sell his farm, the 139 hectare Helkenhof. From 1939 to 1940 Renken took part in the Second World War.

After the Second World War, Renken joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 1946 to 1951, Renken was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the CDU. From his old property, which had been broken up into 39 parts, he was only able to buy back the 56 hectare rest yard. The Higher Regional Court in Celle warned Renken to finally “see that he had not lost the farm through Nazi persecution, but for real reasons”. As a reaction to the courting of his old enemy Lütjens by the Bundestag member for Harburg-Soltau Hans-Christoph Seebohm, Renken left the CDU, which he co-founded in Soltau.

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literature

  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 307.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Opitz: Christlich-Sozialer Volksdienst , 1969.
  2. ↑ a b c The concentration camp comes back at night. In: Der Spiegel 12/1979.
personal data
SURNAME Renken, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (ChrsV, CDU), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Island near Soltau
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1988
Place of death Island near Soltau