Paul Leidinger (District Administrator)

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Paul Leidinger (born March 25, 1894 in Wesel , † January 5, 1975 in Dülmen ) was a German district administrator in the district of Zell (Mosel) and the district of Prüm .

Life

After his school leaving examination , which he passed in Linz on the Rhine in 1919 , Paul Leidinger began studying agriculture and economics in Bonn . After his state examination in 1922 , he received his doctorate in 1925, also in Bonn , the title of his dissertation : The development of the consolidation system in the districts of the Koblenz administrative district on the right bank of the Rhine and the influence on agricultural conditions . Until 1927 he then continued to study law .

Leidinger gained his first professional experience at various cultural offices before he first took over the management of the cultural office in Altenkirchen and then in Simmern from 1929 . In Simmern, as a member of the center, he was both a city councilor and a member of the district council. After the National Socialists seized power, political activity resulted in Leidinger being transferred to Schmalkalden .

Grave of dr. Paul and Barbara Leidinger in Adenau

In 1936 he was able to return to Simmern and from 1939 to 1942 he served as a soldier in the Wehrmacht . After the end of the Second World War , Leidinger was first appointed to the district administrator for the Zell district from 1945 to 1946, after which he was again head of the cultural offices in Bernkastel and Mayen . In the period from 1952 to 1959 he received his next appointment to the district administrator in the Prüm district. Here, his main focus was on rebuilding the infrastructure that had largely been destroyed in the district, a new industrial settlement and the restoration of the central water supply. When he reached the seniority limit, he retired in 1959. In 1969 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Paul Leidinger was with Barbara Leidinger (* August 14, 1896; † December 13, 1989), b. Premassing, married.

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