Kurt Baurichter
Kurt Baurichter (born January 4, 1902 in Bielefeld , † September 13, 1974 in Krefeld ) was a German politician of the SPD . In 1946 he was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and from 1947 to 1967 President of the Government of Düsseldorf .
education and profession
The qualified economist first worked at the German Association of Cities in Berlin at the end of the 1920s and then worked in the Reich Ministry of the Interior, where he worked as a personal advisor to Carl Severing , among other things . After 1936 he was promoted to a member of the management of the paper processing business group, which was subordinate to the Reich Ministry of Armaments and Munitions. In 1945/46 he was co-founder and general manager of the Association of the Paper and Cardboard Processing Industry in Northwest Germany and later he was chairman of the supervisory board of Niederrheinische Hütte AG in Duisburg , deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Niederrheinische Bergwerks AG, Neukirchen and Thyssen Niederrhein AG, Oberhausen, and member of the supervisory board of August Thyssen Hütte AG, Hochdahl-Gesellschaft mbH, Rheinische Heimstätte GmbH and Neuen Schauspiel GmbH.
Nazi captivity
Due to his membership of the SPD, he was interned in the Columbia concentration camp (Berlin-Tempelhof) and in the Lichtenburg concentration camp near Torgau from the end of 1934 to the beginning of 1936 .
After the Second World War
After the Second World War he joined the SPD and in 1945 became district administrator in Bielefeld. In 1946 he was a member of the first state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia appointed by the British military government .
On August 4, 1947, he was appointed regional president at the suggestion of the North Rhine-Westphalian interior minister Walter Menzel . As a result of publicly voiced criticism, he came into conflict with the British military government in this function, for example he fought against the dismantling of 84 factories in the Düsseldorf administrative district. On February 1, 1967, he resigned from office for reasons of age. In his honor, the city of Düsseldorf named the street between the main building of the Düsseldorf district government , the presidential palace and the Golzheimer Friedhof , a cross street to Klever Strasse , the name Kurt-Baurichter-Strasse .
Honors
- 1967: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
Web links
- Kurt Baurichter at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Curriculum vitae on the pages "History of the Düsseldorf District Government"
Philipp von Pestel (1816–1831) | Franz Edmund Josef von Schmitz-Grollenburg (1831–1834) | Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1834–1837) | Adolph von Spiegel-Borlinghausen (1837–1848) | Friedrich von Spankeren (1849–1850) | Leo von Massenbach (1850–1866) | Friedrich von Kühlwetter (1866–1871) | Alexander von Götz and Schwanenflies (1871) | August von Ende (1872–1876) | Karl Hermann Bitter (1876–1877) | Robert Eduard von Hagemeister (1877–1883) | Hans Hermann von Berlepsch (1883–1889) | Eberhard von der Recke von der Horst (1889–1895) | Georg von Rheinbaben (1896–1899) | Hans Dietrich von Holleuffer (1899–1902) | Arthur Schreiber (1903–1909) | Francis Kruse (1909-1919) | Hugo Landé (1919) | Walther Grützner (1920–1923) | Karl Bergemann (1924–1933) | Carl Christian Schmid (1933–1938) | Herbert Fuchs (1938–1939) | Eggert Reeder (1939–1940) | Wilhelm Burandt (1941–1944) | Eggert Reeder (1944–1945) | Eduard Sträter (1945–1946) | Kurt Necker (1946–1947) | Kurt Baurichter (1947–1967) | Hans Otto Bäumer (1967–1975) | Achim Rohde (1975–1983) | Hermann Strich (1983–1986) | Fritz Behrens (1986–1995) | Jürgen Büssow (1995-2010) | Annemarie Lütkes (2010–2017) | Birgitta Radermacher (since 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Construction judge, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielefeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1974 |
| Place of death | Krefeld |