Leo Reiners

Leonhard Reiners (born December 24, 1898 in Viersen ; † August 24, 1958 in Herne ) was a German journalist, civil servant and local researcher.

Life

As the son of foreman Gerhard Reiners and his wife Katharina, he moved to Krefeld as a child in 1904, where he attended Catholic elementary school from 1905 to 1909. Before he graduated from secondary school, he was drafted in 1916 to take part in the First World War. Unfit for duty due to a serious illness, he returned to the Sennelager training camp as a substitute soldier in February 1918 and passed his school leaving examination during a recreational stay at his old school. After his discharge from military service in April 1919 and a brief auxiliary teaching position in Haaren (Waldfeucht) (May 1919-March 1920), he took the humanistic supplementary examination at the grammar school in Lingen (Ems) and began studying philosophy, theology and and art history at the University of Münster and later in Bonn .

During his studies he worked from August 8th to September 20th, 1923 for the unemployed welfare organization of the city of Krefeld, which earned him several days of pre-trial detention with the Belgian occupation forces for his passive resistance . In 1927 he obtained his doctorate phil with the dissertation Phenomenology and Metaphysics of Love at Malebranche .

From June 1925 he edited the Niederdeutsche Tageblatt and the Thomasblatt at Thomas Verlag in Kempen and was hired as editor of the Herner Anzeiger at the end of June 1927 . After 1933 his work opportunities were severely restricted in the area of ​​local politics and cultural politics, he researched and published numerous essays on the history of the city of Herne in the Herner Anzeiger . On September 8, 1939, he was drafted into military service as a main sergeant in the hospital service in Hamm (termination of his contract with the publishing house on May 31, 1941) and, at the end of the war, after a short prison camp, released on May 28, 1945. Herne remained his home and so from August 26, 1945 until his death he was the first head of the culture and press office (until 1956) of the city of Herne. He was a member of the CDU .

Leo Reiners married Elfriede Reuschel on January 16, 1929. They had two sons and a daughter together.

Fonts

• (with Karl Brandt): Chronicle of the City of Herne , Herne 1938.
• The "Library of the German East" in Herne , Herne 1952.
• Herne 1945-1950: 5 years of reconstruction , Herne 1953.
• Herne introduces itself: Dedicated to guests and friends of the city . Herne 1956.
• Fifty years of the Herne-Castrop-Rauxel tram: 120 years of local transport in Herne, Herne 1956.

literature

• Karl Kolligs: Dr. Leo Reiners, honored homeland researcher . In: Heimatgeschichtliche Schriftenreihe, issue No. 2, Herne 1967.
• Manfred Hildebrandt: Leonhard Reiners, a tireless researcher in the service of the city's history . In: City of Herne, Emschertal Museum, City Archives Herne: Two paths to the city's history. Herne 1998 pp. 71-88.

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