Karl Theodor Bleek

Karl Theodor Bleek (born March 19, 1898 in Kirn , † December 15, 1969 in Marburg ) was a German politician ( FVP , DDP , FDP ), Lord Mayor and State Secretary .

Life

The son of a mayor attended school in Marburg. As a participant in the First World War , he lost a leg. After studying law at the Philipps University of Marburg , he was employed between 1927 and 1931 as a councilor in the municipal department of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. From May 1932 until the Nazis came to power in 1933, he was district administrator in the Arnswalde district and was temporarily retired in May 1933. In 1933, however, he was again in the civil service with the district government in Stade , 1934 to 1937 in Arnsberg and 1937 to 1939 in Breslau . In Breslau he was city treasurer from 1939 to 1945 .

Karl Theodor Bleek joined the DVP in 1909 and was a member of the DDP and DStP in the Weimar Republic until they were banned by the National Socialists. Bleek became a member of the NSDAP on January 1, 1942 . In his denazification process , which was carried out before he was sworn in as Lord Mayor of Marburg, he did not mention his NSDAP membership. The jury, which was made aware of this by a witness, did not examine this information, so that it was classified as “not affected” by the law.

Under Bleek, the LDP (Liberal Democratic Party of Hesse, today FDP ), which he co-founded, won the local elections of 1946 in Marburg with 40.4% of the vote ( SPD : 27.2%, CDU : 23.2%), making him the became the first freely elected Lord Mayor in the city after World War II . He held this office from 1946 to 1951. In 1951 he became State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior before he was head of the Federal President's Office from 1957 to 1961 .

Bleek belonged to the constituent assembly of Hesse in 1946 and then to the Hessian state parliament until October 9, 1951 . From 1947 he was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group and deputy chairman of the state. In 1949 he was elected to the FDP federal executive committee, where - in contrast to the Hessian state chairman August-Martin Euler - he belonged to the moderate left-liberal forces. From 1949 to 1951 he also served as the first federal treasurer of the FDP. He was also chairman of the LDP / FDP Marburg and the Marburg district. Bleek was a member of the first federal assembly .

From 1963 he was President of the German National Academic Foundation . The Karl-Theodor-Bleek-Platz and the Karl-Theodor-Bleek-Steg in Marburg are named after Bleek .

Honors

1957: Grand Cross of the Papal Order of Knights of St. Gregory the Great .
1966: Wilhelm Leuschner Medal

Publications

Current questions of local politics at the federal level . Mannheimer Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Mannheim 1953.

literature

Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 212 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 78.

Web links

Tabular curriculum vitae at the Federal Archives
Karl Theodor Bleek , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv , 10/1970 of February 23, 1970, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Bleek, Karl Theodor. Hessian biography. (As of December 15, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Entry on Karl Theodor Bleek in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

↑ BArch (formerly BDC), inventory 3200, Bleek, Karl * March 19, 1898 (on film B51). See also Norbert Frei : Politics of the Past. The beginnings of the Federal Republic and the Nazi past , Munich 1996, p. 84 and the final report of the working group on the preliminary study "Nazi past of former Hessian state parliament members" of the Hessian state parliament commission for the research project "Political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse" (author . Albrecht Kirschner), February 2013, p. 23. ( online ; PDF; 479 kB).
↑ Marburg City Archives, holdings PA No. 829, Volume 1, p. 41.
↑ Stadtarchiv Marburg, holdings PA No. 829, Volume 1, p. 17. See also the article in the Marburg Press of September 17, 1946.
↑ AAS 50 (1958), n.3, p. 130.
↑ Awarded the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal on February 7, 1967 . In: The Hessian Prime Minister (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1967 No. 8 , p. 241 , point 174 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).

personal data
SURNAME	Bleek, Karl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kirn
DATE OF DEATH	15th December 1969
Place of death	Marburg

[1] BArch (formerly BDC), inventory 3200, Bleek, Karl * March 19, 1898 (on film B51). See also Norbert Frei : Politics of the Past. The beginnings of the Federal Republic and the Nazi past , Munich 1996, p. 84 and the final report of the working group on the preliminary study "Nazi past of former Hessian state parliament members" of the Hessian state parliament commission for the research project "Political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse" (author . Albrecht Kirschner), February 2013, p. 23. ( online ; PDF; 479 kB).

[2] Marburg City Archives, holdings PA No. 829, Volume 1, p. 41.

[3] Stadtarchiv Marburg, holdings PA No. 829, Volume 1, p. 17. See also the article in the Marburg Press of September 17, 1946.

[4] AAS 50 (1958), n.3, p. 130.

[5] Awarded the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal on February 7, 1967 . In: The Hessian Prime Minister (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1967 No. 8 , p. 241 , point 174 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.0 MB ]).