Leo Tendler

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Pantaleon "Leo" Tendler (born December 31, 1881 in Oberdollendorf ; † May 5, 1975 ) was a German politician ( center , CDU ). From 1929 to 1935 he was the mayor of the North Rhine-Westphalian community of Oberdollendorf, which was incorporated into the city of Königswinter in 1969, and from 1945 to 1961 mayor .

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Tendler attended elementary school in Oberdollendorf. There he served at the Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius, first as an altar boy and then as a sexton. Tendler took over a grocery store from his father in 1907, and he had inherited a vineyard in the Niederdollendorf district. From 1911 he was a board member of the savings and loan fund Oberdollendorf. In 1921 Tendler and other winemakers founded a distillery in 1921 to recycle the residues from the winery, which was also used by the fruit growers in the area. A cider factory was added later. In 1929 Tendler founded the local winegrowers 'association as a winegrowers' cooperative, which he chaired. He was also the managing director of the Siebengebirge winegrowing association , representing the interests of winemakers in the Siebengebirge region . In the same year, Tendler was elected to the local council of Oberdollendorf in the local elections for the Center Party, which appointed him as community leader. During his first term of office, among other things, on his initiative to make work easier for the winegrowers with the help of state subsidies, the winegrowing trails in the vineyards were laid out from 1930 to 1932. In 1932 he took over the chairmanship of the savings and loan fund Oberdollendorf.

After the National Socialist seizure of power , Tendler remained in office. In this, the municipal council elected in March 1933, in which the center had the majority, confirmed him on April 4th by acclamation. At the same meeting, Tendler, in his address as the newly elected community leader, indicated that he had distanced himself from Adolf Hitler . After the provisional mayor of the Oberkassel Pott office in May 1933 initially had no doubts about Tendler's confirmation, he asked the district administrator on June 8 to suspend the same with reference to allegations made against him. Still unconfirmed in his position, Tendler joined the NSDAP faction as an intern in October 1933, together with other local councilors , but still not the party. It was not until January 1935 that the new mayor of Tersteegen decided that Tendler should remain in the office of honorary community leader (now called community school), his appointment by the district administrator took place on February 25, 1935. Since Tendler and his family had no memberships in NS organizations - he himself had left the Kyffhäuserbund and the NS-HAGO after a short time - and instead continued to show allegiance to the Catholic Church, he was exposed to hostility from the National Socialists. After these had intensified in June 1935 in the course of the general political development towards former center politicians, the mayor applied to the district administrator on July 18, 1935 to recall Tendler because of political unreliability, including actions that were not in conformity with the system and external behavior. Among other things, Tendler's invitation to the council members to participate in the Corpus Christi procession was cited . However, the district administrator only complied with the mayor's request as a result of an incident in early September 1935 in which Tendler had clashed with two uniformed SA men on the street. Following this incident, he insisted on being respected by all citizens of the community. In addition, he was now accused of having allegedly only pointed out his national socialist membership in a letter to the district administrator, and not the National Socialist membership, which was warned by the local group leader and the mayor. Finally, on October 7, 1935, Tendler was recalled by the district administrator as head of the community; thus all offices and communities in the Siebengebirge area were now headed by NSDAP members. In 1938, Tendler protested against hanging a sign in his shop prohibiting Jews from shopping. In addition, until after the Second World War in 1939 he was in contact with a Jewish butcher from Oberdollendorf who had moved to Cologne. In the last days of the war in the region, his house was damaged by artillery fire and Tendler and his family were buried, but saved by German soldiers.

After the end of the war Tendler was appointed mayor of Oberdollendorf by the American local commandant. He later joined the CDU. In his new term of office, Tendler continued to be involved in viticulture in the Siebengebirge region. He was a member of an examination commission newly set up by the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture , which carried out an annual wine award. At his suggestion, a nursery was founded for new plantings. In 1961 Tendler's term of office as mayor ended. On his departure, he was made the first honorary citizen of the community of Oberdollendorf and remained the only person to be honored with this honor. In 1962 Tendler co-founded the homeland club Oberdollendorf and Römlinghoven and was elected its first chairman. Until its dissolution in 1967 he was chairman of the winegrowers' association; many other local associations granted him honorary membership or appointed him honorary chairman.

Tendler was buried in the old cemetery in Oberdollendorf . The Leo-Tendler-Gymnasium on Römlinghovener Straße (since 1954) and the Leo-Tendler-Anlage with the Caesarius monument by Ernemann Sander (1991) on the corner of Cäsariusstraße and Heisterbacher Straße are named after him .

Honors

literature

  • Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Pantaleon "Leo" Tendler - Mayor of Oberdollendorf . In: Königswinter in Zeit und Bild , Volume 1, 9th partial delivery, Königswinter 1998. ( online )
  • Ansgar Sebastian Klein: Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 321–326 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).

Web links

Commons : Leo Tendler  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Ansgar Sebastian Klein: Pantaleon "Leo" Tendler - Mayor of Oberdollendorf
  2. ↑ a b c d e Certificate of honor to the "Winzerverein Siebengebirge" 1967 , Virtual Bridge Courtyard Museum
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Ansgar Sebastian Klein: Rise and rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge
  4. ^ Information board at the Leo-Tendler-Anlage , Wikimedia Commons
personal data
SURNAME Tendler, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tendler, Pantaleon (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center, CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberdollendorf
DATE OF DEATH May 5th 1975