Ludwig Adenauer
Ludwig Adenauer (born February 20, 1902 in Cologne , † November 22, 1971 in Düsseldorf ) was a high-ranking official and most recently State Secretary in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Life
Adenauer was a son of the lawyer August Adenauer , the eldest brother of Konrad Adenauer . He attended high school in Cologne and then studied law in Bonn , Cologne, Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich . From 1924 he was a trainee lawyer and in 1927 Adenauer passed the assessor examination . As such he worked for the district of Moers , the government in Münster and from 1933 to 1939 with the government in Liegnitz . There he was appointed to the government council.
After a short time in the government in Minden , Adenauer was still a soldier in 1939 as a reserve officer in World War II . Severely wounded, he was spared captivity in 1945.
Adenauer was since 1945 in the rank of senior government councilor for economic affairs in the government in Minden or, after the merger of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lippe, in the Detmold government .
Between 1949 and 1953 Adenauer was a ministerial advisor in the Ministry of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia. Then he was ministerial director in the Ministry of the Interior until 1959, head of the municipal department. There he was primarily responsible for local reorganization and regional reform. Between 1959 and 1962 Adenauer was State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture. During this time he was significantly involved in the planning for the foundation of the Ruhr University Bochum . In addition, the North Rhine-Westphalia art collection was founded during his tenure .
From August 1962 to 1967 Adenauer was State Secretary in the Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1966 he was chairman of a working group named after him Adenauer commission, which dealt with the reorganization of the communities in rural areas. The drafted plans were approved by the state cabinet under the newly elected Prime Minister Heinz Kühn in December 1966. The regional reform was then implemented in various steps under Adenauer's successor in the Fritz Rietdorf commission until 1975.
Honors
- 1967: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Bernd Haunfelder : North Rhine-Westphalia. Country and people. A biographical manual . Düsseldorf, 2006. p. 36
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adenauer, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician, State Secretary of North Rhine-Westphalia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1971 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |