Max Valentin (Mayor)

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Street in Vorsfelde named after him

Max Valentin (born September 30, 1902 in Vorsfelde ; † January 13, 1979 ) was the long-time mayor of Vorsfelde in Lower Saxony and a politician of the German party .

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Max Valentin was the son of a farmer in Vorfeld . After the elementary school he attended Jahnsche junior high school in Braunschweig . There he completed an apprenticeship as a banker at Deutsche Bank . He carried out this activity in Braunschweig until 1927 and then returned to his home town, where he ran his parents' farm. At times he was a warehouse clerk at the Vorsfelde canning cooperative . In 1931 Valentin joined the NSDAP .

After the National Socialists seized power in the spring of 1933, Franz Schulze (1882–1954), who had been the national conservative mayor of Vorsfeld for many years and who opposed National Socialism , was deposed in August 1933 and retired in November 1933 under the law to restore the civil service . At the suggestion of the local NSDAP group in Vorsfeld and after confirmation by the Gau leadership of the Gaus Südhannover-Braunschweig , Max Valentin was temporarily appointed mayor and appointed in 1934. During the time of National Socialism he held a number of functions in the village, including as registrar and financial representative of the parish. With the end of National Socialism, Valentin was removed from office in April 1945. American military authorities reinstated his predecessor from the time of the Weimar Republic, Franz Schulze, as mayor.

After 1945, Valentin retired from public life and ran his farm. In 1947 he became president of the Vorsfeld shooting association. In the mayoral election of 1952 in Vorsfelde, Valentin ran on the list of the German party for the local council and was elected mayor by him. He held the office from 1952 to 1956, from 1958 to 1961 and from 1964 to 1972. In office he alternated with Fritz Weiberg (SPD) and accompanied with him the development of the place for many years. Max Valentin held a number of positions, including chairman of the board of directors of Vorsfelder Volksbank (now absorbed by Volksbank Braunschweig Wolfsburg ), chairman of the Wolfsburg dairies in Vorsfelde, head of the Vorsfelde water association , deputy chairman of the Vorsfelde wastewater recycling association, and a member of the supervisory board of Land Electricity Fallersleben and Ostmilchwerke Uelzen . From 1960 Valentin was a member of the district council of the Helmstedt district . In 1964 he became deputy district administrator there .

The city of Vorsfelde granted Max Valentin honorary citizenship on September 30, 1971 before it was incorporated into Wolfsburg in 1972 . After his death, a street in Vorsfelde was named after him.

See also

literature

  • Matthias Brodtmann: History of the apron. Volume 2. Matthias Brodtmann, Wolfsburg 1995, p. 176

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topography of Memory
  2. ^ Honorary citizen of the city of Wolfsburg near the city of Wolfsburg
personal data
SURNAME Valentin, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DP), Mayor of Vorsfelde
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vorsfelde
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1979