Peter Nonnenmühlen

Peter Nonnenmühlen (born June 7, 1868 in Mönchengladbach ; † February 9, 1952 there ) was a local politician and Lord Mayor of Mönchengladbach.

Life

Parents: Caspar Nonnenmühlen (1838–1894) and Margarete geb. Hansen (1838-1897).

Peter Nonnenmühlen graduated from the Stiftisch-Humanist Gymnasium in Mönchengladbach in 1887. After studying in Bonn, where he joined the Catholic Student Association, Heidelberg, Tübingen, Leipzig, and again in Bonn, he settled in his hometown as a lawyer in 1895. In 1896 he married Wilhelmine Meer, who came from the important entrepreneurial family Meer . The couple had six children, one of whom died as a child.

In 1902 Peter Nonnenmühlen, who belonged to the center , was elected to the Mönchengladbach city council as representative of the 3rd department. He was a member of this body until 1933. Especially in his first years he was an eloquent opponent of the Lord Mayor Hermann Piecq (1859–1920). From 1920 to 1924 Nonnenmühlen was an honorary councilor . In March 1933, he entered the city council for the last time as the center’s top candidate. In the city he was called the "Black Peter". Nonnenmühlen's political activity ended with the dissolution of the center. He continued to practice as a lawyer.

He was arrested after July 20, 1944 , but soon released because of his old age. In 1945 he moved into the provisional city ​​council (as the oldest member) and was elected Lord Mayor on February 11, 1946 (as successor to Wilhelm Elfes ). In October 1946 he resigned from office and the city council.

In 1948 he was again a member of the city council for the CDU , whose members elected him Mayor on November 4, 1948. He was the oldest head of the city in Germany. In 1949, 1950 and 1951 he was unanimously confirmed in office. In 1950 the city council also unanimously granted him honorary citizenship . Peter Nonnenmühlen died on February 9, 1952 at the age of 83 and was buried in the main cemetery in Mönchengladbach with great sympathy from the population.

Awards

• 1952: Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Christoph Waldecker :  Peter Nonnenmühlen. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 25, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-332-7 , Sp. 1005-1112.
• Christoph Waldecker: Peter Nonnenmühlen. Mönchengladbach 2003. (Witnesses of the urban past 21).