Otto Creutz

Ludwig Joseph Otto Creutz (born June 3, 1889 in Cologne , † February 21, 1951 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was the district administrator of the Adenau district and “spiritual father” of the Nürburgring . Politically, Creutz belonged to the center .

Life

The Catholic Otto Creutz was born in Cologne as the son of the ophthalmologist Albert Peter Creutz (died November 11, 1891 in Cologne) and his wife Magdalena called Helene Creutz née Holthausen. After the early death of his father, he attended the school in Poznan , where he in 1909 and the final examination took off and studied in sequence from 1909 to 1912 in Freiburg and Bonn law . To draw up the ratification of treaties , he was in 1912 in Greifswald to Dr. jur. PhD . After taking his exam and being appointed court trainee on June 24, 1912, Creutz completed his military service as a one-year volunteer in Breslau , before doing his legal traineeship at the district court of Meseritz from October 1, 1913 and at the Essen regional court from July 1, 1914 Education continued.

The legal training in Essen was interrupted shortly afterwards. Creutz took part in this part from the beginning of the First World War 1914 to 1918; From December 1918 to January 31, 1919 he was a member of the Heuck volunteer corps before moving to the Prussian civil administration on February 1, 1919 as a government trainee at the Lennep District Office . A year later he moved from there to the higher government in Düsseldorf on February 1, 1920 , during his time there he also passed the major state examination on January 8, 1921 , with subsequent appointment as a government assessor . Until his expulsion from the Rhineland by the Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission in March 1923, Otto Creutz found employment at the Bitburg District Office from August 1921 to February 23, 1923 . As an unskilled worker , he found a new job at the Prussian Ministry of the Interior (West Department). There he was promoted to government councilor on August 11, 1923 , before being appointed head of the Spandau Police Office on April 1, 1924 within the service area of the Berlin Police Headquarters .

District Administrator in Adenau

As the successor to Friedrich Gorius , who was to become the new district administrator in Bernkastel after his expulsion from the Rhineland in 1924 , Otto Creutz was initially assigned as a temporary head of the district administration in Adenau as a new task on December 1, 1924, his definitive appointment followed on April 24, 1925. He remained in this position until his temporary retirement on September 30, 1932, as a result of the dissolution of the Adenau district due to the municipal reorganization in Prussia, in the course of which several smaller districts were divided in favor of neighboring ones. On August 17, 1933, he was finally retired on the basis of Section 6 BBG .

In order to help the Eifel region to an economic upswing, he initiated two companies, a silver fox farm and a wood processing company (Eifelholzbau AG), which were denied long-term success. When it became public that a race track could be built in the poor Eifel , Creutz used his contacts in Berlin. He achieved that the so-called "mountain, race and test track", the Nürburgring, was built around the Nürburg .

“In 1925, with the help of 1,500 unemployed people and a cost of 14 million Reichsmarks, one of the most beautiful race tracks in the world was built. This company had ruined the district finances, but District Administrator Dr. Creutz deserves the recognition of having created one of the most structurally effective measures for this Eifel region. He had recognized - which should still apply today -: The area around Adenau can be helped by expanding tourism, but only if this venture is started generously. District Administrator Dr. Creutz laid the foundation for this. "

- Walter Schmitz : From the administrative history of the Ahrweiler district

Memorial stone at the Nürburgring from 2002

When the Adenau district was dissolved in 1932, citizens of Adenau presented Otto Creutz with an artistically crafted certificate. At the end of 1932 the Creutz family moved to Berlin.

Dr. Creutz-Platz in Adenau

His funeral in Adenau in 1951 took place with great sympathy from the population. Later a square in Adenau was named after him, the Dr. Creutz-Platz and in 2002, on the 77th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone, a memorial stone was laid in front of the Dorint Hotel at the Nürburgring in his honor.

After 1932

After his retirement, Creutz worked from January 1, 1934 to December 31, 1936 as managing director of the Reich trust agency for factory air protection at the association for the protection of common economic interests in Rhineland and Westphalia. After unemployment, he worked as a representative for various companies until 1945. After the end of the Second World War , he was briefly employed again as district administrator in Eggenfelden from 1945 to 1946 .

family

Otto Creutz married on February 16, 1921 in Barmen Hedwig Vobis (born February 16, 1896 in Barmen, died November 3, 1984) a daughter of the Barmer Sanitary Council Vobis and his wife Paula Vobis née Dohmens. The couple had two children together.

Web links

Entry on Otto Creutz in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
The vision of the Nürburgring builder Dr. Otto Creutz on motorsport-xl.de from September 25, 2015

Individual evidence

^ Carsten Günther: Secret Nürburgring. In: wdr.de. Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne, January 26, 2015, accessed on October 3, 2018. A simple district administrator brings a national symbol to the Eifel. Dr. Otto Creutz is considered the spiritual father of the Nürburgring.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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. 400 f .
^ The ratification of state treaties , inaugural dissertation, Otto Creutz, Greifswald, Verlag Abel, 1912 OCLC 32689001
↑ Home chronicles of the district of Ahrweiler (home chronicles of the cities and districts of the federal areas, volume 35), Cologne 1968, p. 254 (there also picture by Otto Creutz)

personal data
SURNAME	Creutz, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Creutz, Ludwig Joseph Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH	June 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	February 21, 1951
Place of death	Freiburg in Breisgau

[1] Carsten Günther: Secret Nürburgring. In: wdr.de. Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne, January 26, 2015, accessed on October 3, 2018. A simple district administrator brings a national symbol to the Eifel. Dr. Otto Creutz is considered the spiritual father of the Nürburgring.

[Romeyk-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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. 400 f .

[3] The ratification of state treaties , inaugural dissertation, Otto Creutz, Greifswald, Verlag Abel, 1912 OCLC 32689001

[4] Home chronicles of the district of Ahrweiler (home chronicles of the cities and districts of the federal areas, volume 35), Cologne 1968, p. 254 (there also picture by Otto Creutz)