Johannes Rings (politician)

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Johannes Rings , born as Johann Baptist Rings , (born June 2, 1856 in Cologne ; † June 13, 1950, ibid.) Was a German local politician in the Cologne area and a journalist for the Kölner Local-Anzeiger .

Working as a journalist

Johannes Rings was born the son of the master carpenter Johann Joseph Rings and his wife Katharina Moers. After finishing school, he worked for the JP Bachem publishing house in Cologne for a year as a “reader on the proofreading”, then he completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter . Later he worked as a factor in newspaper typesetting and became head of all typesetting shops at Bachem. The Kölnische Volkszeitung and the Kölner Local-Anzeiger (later Rheinische Volkswacht ) were printed by JP Bachem . Rings worked his way up to the editor-in-chief of the Localanzeiger. He received this position at the age of 71 and held it from 1927 to 1933.

Act as a politician

From 1900 until the seizure of power in 1933, Rings belonged to the Cologne city ​​council as an influential member of the Center Party and was its parliamentary group and party chairman for many years until 1933 . From 1912 to 1918 he was also a member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament . He prevented a clericalization of the Center Party in Cologne , in contrast to the development across the empire in the Weimar Republic . After the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944 , he was briefly imprisoned.

In his capacity as staff department head of the Center Party ring was instrumental in the candidacy of Konrad Adenauer to the Assistant Secretary participated in the Cologne Council. He later advised Adenauer on many matters during his time as Cologne Mayor 1917–1933.

Rings died at the age of 94 in his apartment in Cologne-Lindenthal . He was widowed by Johannette Holzfuß, whom he married in 1882.

The city of Cologne named Johannes-Rings-Strasse in the Cologne-Longerich district in his honor.

Trivia

The Mülheimer Brücke in Cologne was opened in December 1926. On April 1 of this year, Johannes Rings published in the Kölnische Volkszeitung that the bridge was already accessible for pedestrians. Many Cologne residents flocked to the bridge, where they realized that it was an April Fool's joke .

The re-establishment of the University of Cologne in 1919 was rejected by Johannes Rings as the only member of the Center Party in the council meeting on March 18, 1919: "Nobody could say that the university is necessary."

literature

  • Charles Williams: Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany . Little, Brown & Cie., London 2000, ISBN 0-316-85298-8 , p. 180
  • Hans-Peter Schwarz: Konrad Adenauer: From the German Empire to the Federal Republic, 1876–1952 . 1966, p. 108
  • Hugo Stehkämper (Ed.): Konrad Adenauer, Lord Mayor of Cologne . Rheinland-Verlag, ISBN 3-7927-0248-7 , p. 216

swell

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 2223 from June 13, 1950, registry office Cologne I. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 16, 2018 .
  2. ^ Rheinische Zeitung (view of Cologne): Johannes Rings died . Issue June 16, 1956, No. 135
  3. ^ Kölner Lokalanzeiger: Johannes Rings † . June 1956, no.136
  4. ^ Ulrich Soenius, Wilhelm Jürgen: Kölner-Personen-Lexikon . Greven Verlag, Cologne 2007, p. 450, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0
  5. ^ Tobias Müller: The influence of the milieus on the political and social rise of Konrad Adenauer to the mayor of Cologne . GRIN Verlag for academic texts, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-638-90911-2 , p. 14
  6. ↑ Edelmann, Heidrung, The Adenauer and the University of Cologne , page 72, Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne, 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51524-9

such as

Caspers / Rings family archive
personal data
SURNAME Rings, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rings, Johann Baptist (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1950
Place of death Cologne