Johannes Sarnow

Johannes Sarnow (born June 24, 1860 in Stralsund , † December 20, 1924 in Stettin ) was a German lawyer, Prussian provincial official and politician. From 1917 until his death he was governor of the Provincial Association of Pomerania .

family

Johannes Sarnow was the fourth son of the evangelical clergyman Julius Ferdinand Sarnow (* 1816; † 1884), deacon at St. Nikolai in Stralsund and most recently pastor at St. Jakobi in Stralsund and city superintendent, and his wife Johanna Tamms (* 1824), one of them Sister of the Stralsund mayor Carl Friedrich Tamms . Johannes Sarnow had six siblings, including Georg Sarnow (* 1850, † 1935), who was a naval officer, most recently a rear admiral.

The Sarnows were a long-established Stralsund family whose first traditional name bearer was the dressmaker and later mayor Karsten Sarnow († 1393).

Life

Sarnow attended high school in his hometown and then studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and at the University of Jena . Since 1878 he was a member of the Corps Thuringia Jena . This was followed by military service as a one-year volunteer with the Infantry Regiment "Graf Schwerin" (3rd Pomeranian) and legal clerkship. Sarnow was a court assessor at the Stralsund District Court for a year . Then he switched to the Prussian State Railways , where he worked for the Hanover Railway Directorate and the Kiel Railway Operations Office. In 1891 Sarnow moved to the administration of the Pomeranian Provincial Association in Stettin . Here he became state councilor in 1892, and in 1912 also state syndic. When the governor of the provincial association Paul von Eisenhart-Rothe became the Prussian minister for agriculture, domains and forests, Sarnow was elected governor by the provincial parliament of the Pomerania province with a large majority for a term of six years on November 14, 1917 . The governor was the head of the administration of the provincial association.

Sarnow's areas of activity as governor included the energy industry , in which he succeeded in merging smaller companies to form the Überlandzentrale Pommern in 1924 , small railways , public banking , in which he worked towards founding the Pomeranian Provincial Bank , and welfare , in which he succeeded in 1919 of the Oberpräsident Georg Michaelis became chairman of the main office for war welfare organized as a registered association, which he transferred to a new state welfare office until 1924.

In October 1917 Sarnow became a member of the German Fatherland Party , in January 1918 he was elected to its Reich Committee. In the election for the German National Assembly in January 1919, Sarnow supported the German National People's Party , as did the Pomeranian President Georg Michaelis .

Sarnow was re-elected as governor for a second term of office by the provincial parliament of the Pomerania province in 1923 , but died of a heart attack the following year after a brief illness . He was buried in the main cemetery in Stettin ; his tombstone was removed after 1945.

Sarnow were awarded the Red Eagle Order IV class , the Crown Order III. Class and the Cross of Merit for War Aid awarded.

Marriage and offspring

Sarnow had been married to Maria Schmidt (* 1866; † 1953) from Kiel since 1881 . The couple had three daughters and a son who died five days after his 18th birthday at the start of World War I.

The daughter Ebba (1904–2000) married Friedrich Hünemörder and was the mother of the Hamburg historian Christian Hünemörder .

Fonts

• Memorandum on the creation and development of the Pomeranian overland headquarters. Szczecin 1922.
• Provincial institutions . In: Erich Köhrer (Ed.): Pommern. Its development and its future (= German city - German country . Volume 6). Lima-Verlag, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1924, pp. 21–24.

literature

• Bert Becker: Sarnow, Johannes (1860-1924) . In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 2 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.2). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22541-4 , pp. 234-237.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Sarnow in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 62/593