Karl Hölkeskamp

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Karl Hölkeskamp (born October 17, 1882 in Lütgendortmund ; † May 11, 1954 in Bad Tölz ) was a German politician (SPD) and municipal official for the city of Herne .

Coming from a humble background, Hölkeskamp first became a miner after attending school. With an early interest in the union (member of the miners' association ) he joined the SPD in 1900 at the age of 18 . In 1913 Hölkeskamp came to Herne to take over the management of the Volksblatt editorial team and party organization. Until May 31, 1919 he remained party secretary of the SPD sub-district Herne, later chairman of the SPD in the sub-district Bochum. During the First World War, a member of the Herne City Council MSPD , he took an active part in the 1918 November Revolution. On November 9th he was one of the two main speakers at the People's Assembly and on November 10th he took over the chairmanship of the Hern workers 'and soldiers' council which existed until October 1919.

In the next few years as a salaried Assistant Secretary (Welfare department head) of the Magistrates operates the city Herne, he devoted himself mainly to needy workers of the city. Several children's homes, an outdoor pool - called the summer pool - and an urban retirement home were built under his direction .

At the end of his twelve-year term on June 1, 1931, a contract extension was prevented by the communist majority in the city council, against the objections of the magistrate and the factions of the SPD and the center.

Arrested in 1933 by the Nazi rulers and sentenced to three months in prison, further employment in his sphere of activity became impossible during the National Socialist era .

Immediately after the end of the Second World War, on June 1, 1945, he was appointed second mayor or city director, and again devoted himself to welfare and nutrition. In November 1946 he explained his view of the nutritional situation of the Herne population to the city parliament, which in his opinion must be “theoretically dead” . On June 30, 1948, he retired from active service due to old age. From February 12, 1951 until his death, he was still present as an elected city councilor of the SPD in the city council of Herne.

Shortly after the war, Hölkeskamp and other former Samaritans founded the ASB-Ortsverband Herne eV in liquidation , the sole purpose of which was to restore the property seized by the Nazi rulers. After years of negotiations, which ended in a settlement, the association dissolved in 1950 and made the awarded amount available to the workers' welfare for measures in the care of the elderly and children.

Karl Hölkeskamp's estate is kept in the Herner city archive.

Honors

  • October 17, 1952: Award of the large town plaque of the city of Herne
  • May 11, 1964: Name of the new connected bypass road in the south-east of Herne as "Hölkeskampring"
  • Naming of the house and the operator of the AWO in Herne as "Karl-Hölkeskamp-Haus"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the way to the city of Herne 1928–1933. Herne 1954, p. 18f.
  2. ↑ Joy between rubble and ashes ( Memento from July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Hölkeskamp estate in the Herner city archive at www.archive.nrw.de
personal data
SURNAME Hölkeskamp, ​​Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Politician, local government official
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Lütgendortmund
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1954
Place of death Bad Tölz