Peter Hensen

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Peter Hensen (born March 25, 1888 in Aachen , † May 11, 1958 ) was a German newspaper publisher, district and state parliament member of the CDU and the center .

Life and work

After attending elementary school and secondary school, he completed a commercial training and moved to Godesberg in 1918. From 1918 to 1933 he was editor and publisher of the Godesberger Volkszeitung.

Political career

Until 1933 he was chairman of the Godesberger Windthorstbund and was chairman of the center parliamentary group in Bad Godesberg until 1926 , but resigned from his position as chairman of the center after he was elected to the district council of Bonn-Land. However, he retained the chairmanship of the Godesberger Windthorstbund until its dissolution. His successors as chairman in the center were forsbach 1927-28 and from 1929 his party friend Joseph Roth (1896-1945). Hensen was a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1918 to 1933. In 1945 he was one of the founding members of the CDU in Berlin and Bad Godesberg. From April 20, 1947 to June 17, 1950, Hensen was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . He was directly elected in the 009 Euskirchen constituency. On December 31, 1949, as a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, he wrote to the city administration of Bad Godesberg:

Dear City Manager! A circle of friends around the elementary school teacher Joseph Roth, who died as a result of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Bad Godesberg-Friesdorf, Annabergerstr. 74 intends to honor the memory of the former chairman of the Center Party by depicting his life and death as a sign of the time in a script ...

Honors

Peter-Hensen-Straße in Friesdorf is named after him.

Web links

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  • City Archives Bonn, Peter Hensen
  • Bonn City Archives, Joseph Roth personal files
  • Horst Mies: Small town in crisis , CMZ-Verlag, Rheinbach 2004, ISSN  1619-5655 ISBN 3-87062-071-4 , p. 67.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive of the Rheinischen-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität-Bonn, http://s2w.hbz-nrw.de/ulbbn/periodical/pageview/1428312
  2. ^ Broszat / Weber: SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945-1949 , Oldenbourg Verlag GmbH, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 531
  3. ^ Bonn City Archives: Personal files Joseph Roth , p. 21.
  4. ↑ Photos of Peter-Hensen-Straße Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.strassenfotos.de
  5. ^ Godesberger Heimatblätter. ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Edition 28. Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg , 1990, p. 172. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vhh-badgodesberg.de
personal data
SURNAME Hensen, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, (center, CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1958