Lambert Lensing

Lambert Lensing (born November 14, 1889 in Dortmund ; † April 25, 1965 there ) was a German newspaper publisher and CDU politician.

Life

Lambert Lensing was born on November 14, 1889 in Dortmund as the son of the newspaper publisher Lambert Lensing (1851-1928) and his wife Wanda Lensing, née Rittweger (1857-1943). He attended a primary school in Dortmund and the grammar school in Emmerich , his father's hometown. There he passed the final exam in 1910 . He then studied law at the universities of Münster , Munich and Leipzig , where he became a member of student associations in the KV ( K.St.V. Markomannia Münster , K.St.V. Saxonia Munich and K.St.V. Teutonia Leipzig). During his studies he was trained at his father's publishing house and at Fredebeul & Koenen in Essen. From 1914 to 1918 he was a participant in the First World War , most recently as adjutant Franz von Papen in Palestine. Lensing received the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class . On January 1, 1919, he joined the family-owned publishing house " Gebr. Lensing Verlagsanstalt " and completed his studies in 1920 with a legal traineeship.

During the Ruhr occupation by France in March 1923, the daily Tremonia , an organ of the German Center Party , founded by his father , was banned. Lensing then brought out the Ruhrpost newspaper, directed against the French occupation forces, in Bochum . As a result, he was arrested by the French occupying forces and fined.

From 1925 the Tremonia could appear again. After the death of his father in 1928, Lensing took over the management of the family publishing house. At this time he was already on the board of the Dortmund and Westphalian German Center Party . Since 1919 he was a member of the Dortmund city council and was later delegated to the magistrate. In 1929 he became a board member of the Association of German Newspaper Publishers , and in 1930 chairman of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Newspaper Publishers Association. Lensing was also a board member of the Augustine Society for the Care of the Catholic Press. This association was co-founded by his father in 1878.

After coming to power of the Nazis, he had to give up his managerial functions in the newspaper publishers' associations, with the editor of the law he also lost the impact on belonging to publishing newspapers.

In 1939 he was drafted as captain of the reserve , was initially deployed in Morąg and from 1940 onwards he worked in the propaganda department of the Wehrmacht High Command in Berlin. After the war he returned to Dortmund, where the Ruhr newspaper published by the British military government was initially produced in Lensing's printing works from September 19, 1945 to May 4, 1946 . Then he took over the printing of the Westfalenpost . At the end of 1948 he received a license for Ruhr Nachrichten as an old publisher .

Lensing was one of the founders of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Westphalia on September 2, 1945 in Bochum and took over the state chairmanship of the CDU Westphalia until June 20, 1946 . He was appointed to the Parliamentary Council and is thus one of the fathers of the German Basic Law . In 1949 he was one of the founders of the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers , of which he was deputy president from 1953 to 1959. From April 4, 1951 to June 20, 1959, he was again the North Rhine-Westphalian state chairman of the CDU.In 1954 , through a direct mandate in the constituency of Recklinghausen-Land-Nordost, he entered the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and became deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

On February 21, 1959, Lensing was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with a star . Pope John XXIII awarded him the Commander's Cross of the Order of Gregorius .

Lensing died after a brief serious illness; his grave can be found in Dortmund's southwest cemetery .

literature

• Kurt Koszyk: Lensing, Lambert . In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund . tape 1 . Ruhfus, Dortmund 1994, DNB  943829844 , p. 78 ff .
• Kurt Koszyk: Lambert Lensing (1851-1928). In: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (Ed.): German press publishers from the 18th to the 20th century. Verlag Documentation, Pullach near Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7940-3604-4 , pp. 240–249.
• Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of KV. 5th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 6). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1998, ISBN 3-89498-055-9 , pp. 80f.
• Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff; Hermann Strasser : Heads of the Ruhr. 200 years of industrial history and structural change in the light of biographies . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0036-3 , p. 107-111 .

Web links

Lambert Lensing at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kurt Koszyk: Lensing, Lambert . In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund . tape 1 . Ruhfus, Dortmund 1994, p. 78 ff .