Peter Paul Took

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Peter Paul Nahm (born November 22, 1901 in Gensingen , † January 15, 1981 in Lorch ) was a German historian, journalist and ministerial official. He belonged to the CDU .

Life and work

Took attended the old grammar school in Mainz and studied philosophy, history and art history in Innsbruck from 1921 to 1925 . In 1925 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the cultural and settlement history of the Roman-Franconian period in Bingen and the surrounding area .

He was then chief editor (editor-in-chief) of the Mittelrheinische Volkszeitung , which was banned by the National Socialists in 1934 . After a professional ban and several weeks of “ protective custody ” in the Osthofen concentration camp , he worked as a wine merchant until 1945.

In 1959, Nahm became chairman of the Catholic Refugee Council at the German Bishops' Conference . He kept this office until his death. In 1960 he received the Lodgman badge for his work for the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft.

Political party

In the Weimar Republic , Nahm belonged to the ZENTRUM . After 1945 he joined the CDU.

Public offices

After the Second World War, Nahm was district administrator in the Rheingau district from 1945 to 1946 . The concept he developed there for the integration of the displaced persons made him known nationwide. From 1947 to 1949 he was head of the Hessian State Refugee Office. From 1953 to 1967 he was a permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims .

Publications

  • After two decades. Experience reports on flight, displacement and integration. Grenzland-Druckerei, Wolfenbüttel, undated
  • Documents of German war damage. Bonn 1960.
  • Works of art in rural areas. Grote Verlag, Cologne 1966.
  • Birth of a multinational peace order. Munich 1966.
  • But life went on. Sketches on the situation, attitude and performance of the displaced, refugees and residents after zero hour. Grote Verlag, Cologne 1971.
  • At home in another world. Gieseking, Bielefeld 1975.
  • Culture and politics in the field of tension of history ( Hans-Joachim von Merkatz on his 70th birthday). Gieseking Verlag, Bielefeld 1975.

literature

Selected literature on Nahm's role in the integration of displaced persons in Hesse:

  • State Commissioner for Refugees (ed.): Hessen and the refugee problem. An account of the facts and figures. Wiesbaden, 1949. 53 pp.
  • Krisztina Kaltenecker: About the origin of the Hungarian-German settlement Sankt Stephan near Darmstadt. An annotated source edition. In: Josef Schwing (Ed.): Suevia Pannonica. Archive of Germans from Hungary. Volume 21 (31). CHROMA Druck & Verlag GmbH, Römerberg-Berghausen 2003, ISSN  0176-0432 , pp. 37-47.
  • Krisztina Kaltenecker: Önsegély és tétlen várakozás válaszútján. A Magyarországról elűzött németek szervezetei Darmstadtban (1946-1951). [At the crossroads between self-help and passive waiting. The organizations of the Germans expelled from Hungary in Darmstadt 1946-1951] In: Levente Sipos (ed.): Múltunk. Political atörténeti folyóirat. Budapest, year XLVIII. (2003), No. 4, ISSN  0864-960X , pp. 198-245.
  • Rolf Messerschmidt: Admission and integration of displaced persons and refugees in Hesse 1945-1950. On the history of the Hessian refugee administration. Research on the integration of refugees and expellees in Hesse 1945, vol. 4, Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 978-3-922244-94-3 .
  • Martina Skorvan: The Aid Organization of the Evangelical Church and its refugee work in Hesse 1945-1955. Edited by the Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv in connection with the Historical Commission for Nassau. Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-922244-99-8 .
  • York Rasmus Winkler: Refugee Organizations in Hesse 1945-1954. BHE - refugee associations - country teams. Research on the integration of refugees and displaced persons in Hesse 1945, vol. 6. Historical commission for Nassau. Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-930221-04-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Paul Nahm in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on August 19, 2011 ( beginning of the article freely accessible); see. Günter letter:  Took it, Peter Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 722 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ DER SPIEGEL 15/1960 , accessed on July 9, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Took it, Peter Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Gensingen
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1981
Place of death Lorch (Rheingau)