Max Huesker

Max August Werner Hüesker (born March 8, 1883 in Wilhelmshaven ; † October 18, 1961 in Essen ) was a German district administrator.

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After attending grammar schools in Celle, Wesel, Darmstadt, Lüneburg and Wiesbaden, Max Hüesker graduated from high school on March 5, 1902 and then studied law in Freiburg , Kiel , Berlin and Marburg . On November 8, 1906, he became a trainee lawyer at the Frankfurt / Main Higher Regional Court . His final exam he passed on 17 November 1906 and his doctorate on 25 July 1910 in Leipzig for Dr. jur. He switched to administration and became a government trainee with the Düsseldorf district government . Appointed government assessor in October 1911 , he was seconded to Ortelsburg on November 1st . Hüesker was used in the fighting throughout the First World War , most recently as captain of the reserve.

He became a councilor and came to the Arnsberg district government on December 9, 1918, and on August 7, 1919, he moved to the Oberpräsidium Koblenz . On April 15, 1921, at first provisional, on September 23, 1921, Hüesker became the head of the district of Limburg . From June 1923 to August 1923 he was imprisoned by the French occupying forces and then expelled until October 1924.

Commissioned on December 9, 1924 with the representative administration of the Recklinghausen district office, the definitive appointment as district administrator of the Recklinghausen district was on April 1, 1925. He remained in this office until his move to the Arnsberg district government on October 1, 1927. Hüesker was government vice-president when he was appointed president of the Ruhr Coal District Settlement Association in Essen on June 3, 1930 . He held this office until March 31, 1947 - when he retired due to the dissolution of the authority. Until his final retirement on March 30, 1949, he was head of the Essen branch of the Ministry for Reconstruction in North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1932, Hüesker was honorary chairman of the administrative board of the hospitals of the merciful sisters of Saint Elisabeth in Essen and Oberhausen and also an honorary assessor at the administrative court in Münster .

He belonged to the center until 1933 and was then first in the Stahlhelm and then in the SA until 1937, when he was released on application.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , pp. 182f. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16).

Web links

• Hüesker, Max August Werner. Hessian biography. (As of November 28, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).