Julius Mennicken

Julius Mennicken (born December 27, 1893 in Bedburg ; † June 7, 1983 in Bergisch Gladbach ) was district administrator of the Rheinisch-Bergisch district from 1933 to 1945 .

Life

childhood and education

Julius Mennicken was born as the son of the senior teacher at the Knight Academy in Bedburg, Josef Mennicken, and Clara Mennicken, nee. Wolff, born. After attending the humanistic grammar school in Mülheim am Rhein , which he graduated with the final examination in 1913, he studied law and folk sciences from 1913 to 1914 and, interrupted by participating in the First World War , from 1918 to 1921 in Munich . For economic and health reasons, however, he did not finish his studies.In 1922, he started a commercial job with a company in Cologne.

Political activity

Mennicken had been a member of the NSDAP since July 1, 1929, and from 1931 to 1937 he held the post of district leader in Cologne . Matzerath writes: “Under Richard Schaller and his deputy Julius Mennicken, the Cologne local group also experienced a considerable upswing. The membership development went beyond the scope of the organizational scheme of the NSDAP, so that at the beginning of 1932 a district with five urban districts replaced the Cologne branch. In September 1932 there was another new division, which should have existed in the basic structure until the war . The urban area of Cologne was divided into three districts: Cologne north and south on the left bank of the Rhine with the district leaders Heinrich Herborn and Willy Ebel and Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine with Julius Mennicken. "

District Administrator of the Rheinisch-Bergischen-Kreis

A good month after Matthias Eberhard , the district administrator of the Rheinisch-Bergischen district, applied for his release on March 15, 1933, Julius Mennicken initially took over management of the district on April 24th. With a decree of January 13, 1934, the office was provisionally transferred to him on January 17. His final appointment on April 1, 1934, dates from April 5, 1934. He was only the twelfth holder of a district office in the Rhine Province since 1816 and one of four during the Nazi era who could not prove a degree. One of his first official acts was to move into the new official seat in Bergisch Gladbach. The ceremony to move into the former factory owner's villa of the Zanders family was the pompous climax of the so-called Brown Week. In 1938 Mennicken headed the department of the Rheinisch-Bergischer-Kreis of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein as the club leader.

After the Second World War

After his release at the end of the war , Mennicken was interned from April 22 to July 31, 1945 . Since March 1, 1948 he was again employed in a trading company. Under the pseudonym Julius Werth, the maiden name of his wife, he was active as a writer.

family

The Catholic Julius Mennicken married on January 9, 1923 in Frelenberg Maria Werth (born February 2, 1901 in Zweibrücken), the daughter of the farmer and landlord Hieronymus Werth.

literature

Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 626 f .

Individual evidence

↑ Horst Matzerath : Cologne in the time of National Socialism. 1933-1945. (History of the City of Cologne, 12) Ed. Werner Eck , Greven Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7743-0429-1 , p. 36.
^ ^A ^b Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 .
↑ Wolfgang Vomm: The Muses Villa. From the factory owner's house to the municipal gallery Villa Zanders. In: Bürgerburg + Musenvilla. Access to historical mansion buildings in Bergisch Gladbach. Edited by Albert Eßer and Wolfgang Vomm, Rass'sche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 3-9809631-8-7 , p. 184.
^ Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, year 1938, p. 47 on books.google.de

personal data
SURNAME	Mennicken, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian administrative officer and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH	December 27, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bedburg
DATE OF DEATH	June 7, 1983
Place of death	Bergisch Gladbach

[1] Horst Matzerath : Cologne in the time of National Socialism. 1933-1945. (History of the City of Cologne, 12) Ed. Werner Eck , Greven Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7743-0429-1 , p. 36.

[Romeyk-2] A ^b Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 .

[3] Wolfgang Vomm: The Muses Villa. From the factory owner's house to the municipal gallery Villa Zanders. In: Bürgerburg + Musenvilla. Access to historical mansion buildings in Bergisch Gladbach. Edited by Albert Eßer and Wolfgang Vomm, Rass'sche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 3-9809631-8-7 , p. 184.

[4] Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, year 1938, p. 47 on books.google.de