Max Adenauer
Max Adenauer (born September 21, 1910 in Cologne , † January 6, 2004 ibid) was a German CDU politician and chief city director of Cologne from 1953 to 1965 .
family
Max Adenauer was born as the second child of the future Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his first wife Emma . Weyer was born. The CDU politician Sven-Georg Adenauer is a nephew of Max Adenauer. Max Adenauer married Gisela Klein (1919–1992) in 1941. From this marriage there were four children.
Education and employment
Initially, Max Adenauer attended evening grammar school and, after graduating from high school, studied law from 1929 to 1933 at the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Cologne. Like his father, he became a member of the student associations of the KV , in Freiburg of the K.St.V. Flamberg and in Cologne of the K.St.V. Rheinpfalz . After his legal traineeship in 1933, Adenauer obtained his doctorate in 1935. jur. and stayed after the assessor examination 1937/1938 for study purposes in the USA. From 1938 he worked as an assessor in the legal and administrative department of the Humboldt-Werke in Duisburg. After the Second World War , Max Adenauer became authorized signatory at Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG in Cologne.
Administrative activity and senior city director of Cologne
In 1948 he was elected deputy for economy, ports and transport. From 1953 to 1965 he was senior city director and from 1969 to 1975 a member of the Cologne City Council. Max Adenauer is one of the most important local politicians in post-war history in North Rhine-Westphalia.
As a conservative modernizer , Max Adenauer, as senior city director, shaped Cologne's urban policy in a second Cologne era in the post-war development phase and thereby laid the foundation for today's Cologne. In particular, he worked to ensure that the historic old town was restored to the way it is today. Thanks to its future-oriented economic policy, Cologne developed into an important economic metropolis.
Max Adenauer stood for the settlement and the rapid expansion of Cologne-Bonn Airport , the integration of the displaced and sustained the reconciliation with Israel and France .
After the University of Cologne was re-established in 1919 - a few months after the First World War - by the then mayor and later Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer , it was his son Max, who, as chief town director, played a key role in the new university contract concluded in 1954, who laid the foundations for this made the University of Cologne one of the largest German universities with over 40,000 students.
From 1965 to 1977 Max Adenauer was a member of the board of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Boden-Credit-Bank in Cologne. In 1966 he founded the German-Korean Society .
Max Adenauer died in 2004 at the age of 93 and was buried in his wife's family grave in Cologne's Melaten cemetery (Hall 19 (D)).
Awards and honors
- 1956: Commander with Star of the Order of the Falcons
- 1958: Knight of the Papal Order of Knights of St. Gregory the Great
- 1964: Great Golden Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 1976: Large Federal Cross of Merit
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Adenauer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Max Adenauer in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Max Adenauer in conversation with Gustav Trampe , in the series Witnesses of the Century , laid out in the project Memory of the Nation ( Interview - May 27, 1998 - duration 59:33 minutes).
Individual evidence
- ↑ AAS 50 (1958), No. 5, p. 246.
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
Willi Suth (1946–1953) | Max Adenauer (1953-1965) | Heinz Mohnen (1965–1977) | Kurt Rossa (1977-1989) | Heinz Ludger Uhlenküken (1989–1990) | Lothar Ruschmeier (1990–1998) | Klaus Heugel (1998–1999)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adenauer, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 2004 |
| Place of death | Cologne |