Karl Jünemann (politician, 1881)

Memorial stone in the village of Wandlitz

Karl Jünemann (born May 1, 1881 in Jühnde ; † January 21, 1945 in Eberswalde ) was a long-time local politician in Wandlitz . He played an important role in the economic boom of the place in the 1920s.

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Karl August Ferdinand Wilhelm Jünemann was the son of the farmer Carl Jünemann and his wife Amalie, b. Undermöhlen. After completing his school education in Göttingen and attending the commercial school there, Karl Jünemann initially worked as a volunteer for the Göttingen magistrate . In 1900 Jünemann got a job as an office assistant at the police headquarters in Göttingen and stayed there until October 14, 1906. He then successfully applied as an office assistant in the administration of the up-and-coming community of Weißensee .

The Wandlitz community had advertised the position of its first full-time mayor in 1910 , whereupon 167 applications were received. One of the applicants was Karl Jünemann, whom the local council finally selected and who took office on November 1st of the same year. For his dedicated work in the first years of office, which fell well into the time of the First World War ,the General Commission in matters of the Royal Prussian Order awarded him the Cross of Merit for War Aid on October 9, 1917, “on the highest orders of His Majesty the King ” .

When the villages of Wandlitz, Basdorf , Klosterfelde , Stolzenhagen and Zühlsdorf merged to form an administrative district in 1919 , Jünemann became its head of office. In "his" place Wandlitz made Jünemann soon for planting numerous trees in the streets, the paving of the main road, the construction of the post office (1929), the construction of the station Wandlitzsee (from 1925) for better Erschließbarkeit of new villas in the residential area around the Wandlitzer lake with Opening in 1905 Heidekrautbahn , the establishment of the lido , the construction of a first municipal school, the establishment of the volunteer fire department on June 27, 1911, equipping a modern for its time fire engine . Also to be mentioned are the construction of the communal cemetery including the construction of the cemetery chapel , the establishment of a sports club with the establishment of the sports field and the expansion of the Wandlitz train station into a large goods transshipment point (from 1920). The generous granting of liquor licenses (around 60 excursion restaurants were built in Wandlitz between 1910 and 1930  ) and, above all, the extensive parceling of common land , which resulted in the Glückauf settlements and the Rahmersee artists' colony , led to a sharp increase in the number of inhabitants in the place. Three people gave him strong support in his work: the farmer Carl Sommer, son of the previous long-term mayor, the master locksmith Kurtz and the businessman Franz Perner.

In a résumé that he wrote later, Jünemann noted his successes: "I soon succeeded in resolving the large-scale communal dispute between long-time residents and settlers and in solving a large number of urgent communal tasks."

Karl Jünemann, who joined the left-liberal German Democratic Party in the 1920s , had been a member of the district assembly for the DDP since September 1930 . He campaigned for parliamentary democracy to be preserved in Wandlitz during the Weimar Republic and at the beginning of the 1930s.

A memorandum published in 1924 contains all of Karl Jünemann's ideas on how Wandlitz could become an attractive climatic health resort “at the gates of Berlin”. Little of it could be implemented because there was a lack of money everywhere.

However, members of the NSDAP increasingly attacked Jünemann's goals and draft resolutions. Because he was also plagued by health problems, he finally submitted an application for early retirement in October 1932 . The municipal council confirmed this application, with which Jünemann resigned from office in January 1933. However, the political development intensified enormously, so that a citizen of Wandlitz (not named) denounced him ; Jünemann had said in the grocer's shop that Hitler supporters followed a heresy. On July 6, 1933, Jünemann was arrested and taken into protective custody in Oranienburg concentration camp . He was able to leave the concentration camp after 19 days, but was expelled from the Wandlitz district with his family. It is not clear where the Jünemanns moved. Because of his constantly deteriorating health, in particular he suffered from paranoia , Karl Jünemann came to the mental hospital in Eberswalde in the early 1940s , where he died shortly before the end of the Second World War .

Honors

In addition to the above-mentioned Cross of Merit , Karl Jünemann received other awards. On November 19, 1927, in the "name of the Prussian State Ministry ", he received the commemorative mark for services to fire extinguishing. Posthumously , in 1947, the crossroads in the village of Wandlitz were given the honorary name Jünemann-Platz, and linden trees were planted around the triangular square.

In the GDR era, the Wandlitz local history researcher Walter Blankenburg (1901–1984) made sure that a large boulder recovered from a Wandlitz gravel pit was transported to this place and the name of the successful community leader Karl Jünemann was chiseled into it. The Wandlitz community had the stone erected in a small ceremony in 1962. After the fall of the Wall , the newly elected municipal administration improved the visibility of the square by setting up benches, creating and maintaining flower borders on the square, and also adding a metal plaque with the inscription "Karl Jünemann - Municipal Leader 1910-1933". Due to the bypass of the federal road 273 opened in the 1980s , which until then had led directly through the village, tourists or day trippers rarely come here.

Since 2007 further activities of the municipal administration have taken place. The square and the access roads received new street lighting, the traffic route was reorganized as an oval roundabout , the total cost was around 300 thousand euros . There is a bus stop for line 894 of the Barnimer bus company on the square .

Literature and main source

• Wandlitz history workshop: Karl Jünemann. Community leader 1910–1933. , Leaflet, written around 2006;
  Text (without incorporated facsimiles from Jünemann's curriculum vitae) also published in the Heidekrautjournal in 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wandlitz community leader deported to the concentration camp on www.brandenburg-33.de; accessed on March 6, 2015.
2. ↑ Wandlitz volunteer fire brigade 1911 to 2011 . Festschrift for the 100th anniversary ; accessed on March 6, 2015.
3. ↑ District Archives Barnim, Wandlitz KI 6903
4. ^ Barnim district archive, KI Wandlitz 12015
5. ↑ Template MV-BA / 2007-0010 from Hydro-Planungsgesellschaft mbH , accessed on October 22, 2016.
6. ↑ Timetable bus 894 , accessed on March 16, 2018.