Paul Zenz

Paul Zenz (* 26. June 1897 in stone bridge , district Mülheim on the Rhine , † 29. October 1955 in Minden ) was a German politician and President of the Government of the Regierungsbezirk Minden . He later belonged to the CDU .

Life

Paul Zenz grew up in the Ruhr area. In 1916 he graduated from high school and then did military service. From 1919 he studied law and politics and was a trainee lawyer at the Cologne Higher Regional Court. In 1924 he was accepted into the state administration of the Koblenz government . In 1925 he worked for the police chief in Berlin, then switched to the Prussian State Bank . In 1929 he was appointed a councilor and in March of that year he switched to the government in Minden. On April 22, 1945, the British military government appointed him President of Minden as politically unaffected. After the government in Minden was relocated to the city ​​of Detmold in Lippe on April 1, 1947 for political reasons under the new name of the Detmold district , Paul Zenz was put on hold and retired on July 1. With that, Zenz was the last government president of the Prussian administrative district of Minden and at the same time the first and last district president of the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Minden. His successor in the district of Minden-Lippe (later Detmold) was not a native of Prussia politicians, but the former Lippe "Prime Minister" Heinrich Drake . Zenz then worked as a board member in Minden.

Paul Zenz belonged to the Christian Church.

Act

Paul Zenz was the first district president in Minden after the Second World War and had to administer a country which had to be rebuilt and which had to supply the Ruhr area with food technology. After being replaced by the relocation of the government, he stayed in Minden and did a lot for the administration. In addition, Paul Zenz was the first chairman of the Minden Cathedral Building Association , which was founded in June 1946 , the aim of which was to rebuild the Minden Cathedral, which was destroyed in a bomb attack in March 1945 .

literature

• Ernst Siemer: 175 years old: A district government in East Westphalia 1816–1991. A documentation. Published by the District President in Detmold, Detmold 1991. ISBN 3-926505-04-4 , p. 183 ff

Web links

• Short biography in the project Westphalian history