Ludwig Recken

Ludwig Recken (born December 15, 1855 in Kempen , district of Viersen , † August 25, 1945 in Stadthagen ), Roman Catholic, was a secret building officer and politician ( center ).

Job and life

The Kempen 1892 Head of Meliorationsbauinspektion Hanover , joined in 1906 as assistant to the meliorationstechnischer Prefect and served as building officer for all district governments in the province. In 1922 he was also chief fisherman for the province, an honorary position that he continued to exercise after retirement. He was a personal acquaintance of the center leader Ludwig Windthorst , who lived in Hanover, where Recken contributed to the establishment of the center organization. In 1941 Recken lived as a manager at Gut Schäferhof in Propsthagen-Stadthagen.

Political offices

The building council was elected chairman of the Center Party of Hanover and the surrounding area in 1920 and had been a member of the provincial board of his party for the province of Hanover since 1925 at the latest, which he remained until 1929. In 1925 he came at the same time as a representative of the Center Party of the Province of Hanover in the Reich Committee (Reichsvorstand) of the Center Party, where he also held office until at least 1929. In 1928 he was elected second secretary on the board of the Center Party of the southern Hanover constituency.

Ludwig Recken was a member of the Hanoverian provincial parliament for the constituency of Hanover-Stadt from November 1925 to the end of 1929, and from 1926 to 1930 he acted as a representative to the Reichsrat for the province of Hanover. In 1928 he took part as a Hanoverian delegate at the Center Party Congress in Cologne , at which there was a vote on the new party leader. In 1929 Recken resigned the party chairmanship for Greater Hanover for reasons of age and renounced a new nomination for the provincial state election. His successor in the office of Center Chairman of the City of Hanover, Dr. Bernhard path , at the same time moved in for him in the provincial parliament and at the same time took over its seat on the Hanoverian center board.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 286.
• Lensing, Helmut: The Center Party in the Province of Hanover during the Weimar Republic - Part 1, in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.), Emsländische Geschichte 25, Haselünne 2018, 57–221, pp. 178–179, 184–185, 189
• Lensing, Helmut: The Center Party in the Province of Hanover during the Weimar Republic - Part 2, in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.), Emsländische Geschichte 26, Haselünne 2019, 44–112, pp. 100, 102–103.
• Ems-Zeitung, Papenburg, No. 98 of April 29, 1927.