Max Ringel

Max Ringel (born July 11, 1907 in Deutschlandsberg , Styria ; died June 14, 1992 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) was a German lawyer of Austrian origin and district administrator of the districts of Daun (1940) and Bitburg (1941–1945) and Luxembourg District of Diekirch (1942–1944).

Life

Origin and education

As the son of Max Ringel, who had a doctorate in the Styrian government in Graz , and his wife Wilhelmine Aigner, Max Ringel began studying law in 1928 after attending grammar school . The study locations Graz and Frankfurt he finished his high school career in 1932 before July 22, 1933 Graz to the Dr. jur. received his doctorate. Ringel joined the NSDAP on April 30, 1930 while still a student .

After receiving his further legal training from 1933 to 1937 in Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder) , he studied at the same time at the University of Berlin. On June 3, 1936 , Max Ringel was appointed court trainee on January 15, 1937 as a government trainee in the administration. After passing the second legal exam on July 22, 1938, he was appointed government assessor and subsequently found employment at the administrative office of the Schleusingen district in Suhl .

1940 to 1945

On January 20, 1940, when he was appointed to the government council, Ringel finally moved from Thuringia to the Rhine province , to the government in Trier . Just one week later, by decree of January 26th to February 1st, he was entrusted with the representative administration of the Daun district, as a replacement for the sick district administrator Paul Wirtz there . He had previously received the unimplemented transfer decree as district administrator to St. Goar on January 18 and was ultimately commissioned with the administration of the district of Brüx from September 23, 1940 .

While Ringel returned to the government in Trier on July 11, 1940, from October the Prüm District Administrator Alexander Schlemmer took over the administration in Daun in personal union. In exchange for Otto Meyer-Tonndorf , the district administrator of the Bitburg district, who had previously been released from his position there, acting as district administrator from July 23, 1941, Ringel received his definitive appointment as district administrator in Bitburg on May 14, 1942. Between Meyer-Tonndorf and the Bitburg NSDAP district leader Johann Jakobs (1937–1943) there had been repeated differences.

In 1942 Jakobs was finally entrusted as NSDAP district leader and Ringel from July 10, 1942 as district administrator, in addition to their previous tasks in Bitburg, with the performance of the corresponding tasks in the district of Diekirch established in 1940 in occupied Luxembourg. On December 22, 1943, Ringel was transferred to Diekirch and from then on only managed the Bitburg district as a substitute. On September 1, 1944, however, in view of the advancing Allied troops, he had to report the evacuation of the Diekirch district office. Furthermore, Ringel remains a civilian employee of the Wehrmacht until the end of the war .

1945 to 1972

After the city of Bitburg was occupied by US associations on February 28, 1945, Ringel was taken prisoner from April 28 to December 20, 1945, temporarily taking up his residence in Burgsteinfurt . Subsequently, he worked as an insurance salesman for insurance companies until 1952. Ringel, who was classified as a district administrator for re-use after 1945, found employment with the German municipal publishing house in Cologne from September 16, 1952 to May 31, 1953, and then until May 16 1954 as a legal employee at the DGB in Mainz . In May 1954, he returned to the public administration as a councilor at the compensation office in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. There on May 1, 1958, promoted to the senior government council and on March 16, 1970 also to the government director, he retired on July 31, 1972 when the seniority limit was reached. He spent his old age in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse.

family

The Catholic Max Ringel married Anneliese Melster (born September 30, 1915 in Leverkusen ) on January 7, 1939 , a daughter of the authorized signatory Ludwig Melster and his wife Margaretha Melster, née Kaufel.

Web links

• Entry on Max Ringel in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinz Monz : Ringel, Max, District Administrator . In: Heinz Monz (Ed.): Trier biographical lexicon , Trier Wissenschaftlicher Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , p. 372 f. (Note: the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database and subsequently the German National Library (DNB) incorrectly state the place of death as Neustadt (Wied).)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 693 .
3. ↑ Romeyk gives Frankfurt (Oder) as the second place of study, but there was no university there from 1811 to 1991; In 1985, Peter Neu exclusively names Graz as a place of study for the years 1928 to 1932.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Peter Neu: District administrators of the Bitburg and Prüm districts. Dr. Max Ringel - District Administrator in Bitburg 1941–1945 in: District administration Bitburg-Prüm (Ed.): Heimatkalender 1986 Bitburg 1985, p. 47–50, here p. 51 (with picture).
5. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 821 .
6. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 721 f .