Konrad Miss

Konrad Jakob Miss (born October 30, 1880 in Mönchengladbach ; died September 14, 1952 in Lindenthal (Cologne) ) was a Prussian administrative officer and district administrator .

Life

As the son of the factory worker Heinrich Miss and his wife Clara Miss, née Pilz, born in the Lower Rhine, Konrad worked in his early years as a miller and seaman. In 1905 he was an employee of the seaman's association in Stettin , before he was given the position of party secretary for the constituency Mülheim-Wipperfürth-Gummersbach on July 1, 1910 by the SPD , of which he was a member. During the First World War he took part in the fighting from 1915 to 1917 as a member of the Navy. After its end, on September 1, 1919, he was appointed District Secretary of the SPD for the Upper Rhine Province in Cologne .

After the previous district administrator of the Wetzlar district, Wilhelm Sartorius , had retired on April 1, 1929, when he reached the age limit , Miss succeeded him with a temporary transfer on April 2, 1929. Took place on the final appointment on 10 September 1929, only about three and a half years later, after the seizure of power by the National Socialists , March 5, 1933 he was transferred into temporary retirement. In the years up to 1941 he earned his family's livelihood as a sales representative, and in 1941 Miss was conscripted. At the end of the Second World War , from May 1945 to 1948, he again took over the administration of the Wetzlar district as district administrator. He died living in Wetzlar in 1952 in a Cologne hospital .

Konrad Miss was married twice. Last marriage since March 4, 1930 (Cologne-Sülz) with Gertrud Lennertz (born April 1, 1905 in Krefeld; died 1990). His estate, which covers the period from 1891 to 1956, is kept in the historical archive of the City of Cologne.

Web links

Miss, Konrad. Hessian biography. (As of July 24, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, registry office Cologne I, deaths, 1952, document 3375.
^ ^A ^b ^c 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. 633 f .
↑ Entry in the estate database , accessed on April 2, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Miss, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Miss, Konrad Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mönchengladbach
DATE OF DEATH	September 14, 1952
Place of death	Lindenthal (Cologne)

[Sterbeurkunde-1] Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, registry office Cologne I, deaths, 1952, document 3375.

[Romeyk-2] A ^b ^c 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. 633 f .

[3] Entry in the estate database , accessed on April 2, 2019.