Peter Trimborn

Memorial plaque from 1989 in the Spanish building for Cologne city councilors who fell victim to the Nazi regime

Leo Peter Konrad Trimborn (born April 11, 1881 in Euskirchen ; died January 20, 1941 in Cologne ) was a Prussian district administrator , editor of the Rheinische Zeitung and Cologne city councilor.

Life

The Catholic (according to another source also dissident ) Peter Trimborn was the son of Elisabeth Trimborn, who last lived in Opladen, from her illegitimate relationship with a miller or farmer. On June 17, 1905, he married Maria Anna Hoffmann in Euskirchen (born October 14, 1884 in Weidesheim ; died October 29, 1958 in Weidenpesch ).

Trimborn, who came from a purely proletarian background, initially worked in the textile industry as a worker or cloth maker. The cloth industry in the Euskirchen- Kuchenheim area, from which he and his future wife came, was an important branch of the economy for a long period of time.

Politically, as a member of the SPD , he was a union member of the German Textile Workers' Association , and from 1909 to 1914 he also held the position of secretary. The association management had become aware of the previously only locally active, "speaker and writer skilled worker" and had given him the management of the textile workers' association in Bamberg. Shortly before the beginning of the First World War , he joined the editorial team of the Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne, which was published by the SPD, and from 1914 advanced there to the position of employee and finally the chief editor of the Cologne and local political section, at the same time as a member of the SPD parliamentary group and one their later leaders in the Cologne city council. He was succeeded by Hugo Efferoth in the Cologne editorial office of the Rheinische Zeitung when he moved to the district office in Opladen in 1927 . In Trimborn's death certificate in 1941, his occupation as an editor is also given, the cause of death with arteriosclerosis .

As the successor to the long-time district administrator of the district of Solingen , Adolf Lucas , Peter Trimborn was appointed provisionally as district administrator of the district based in Opladen by decree of September 29, 1927 . After taking up his post on October 6 of the same year, he received his definitive appointment ( appointment ) as district administrator on March 29, 1928. In the course of the dissolution of the district of Solingen as part of a municipal reorganization on August 1, 1929, it initially took place on July 31, 1929 Trimborn's transfer to temporary retirement . Parallel to this formal act, on August 1, 1929, he was entrusted with the provisional management of the newly established Solingen-Lennep district , which was created through the merger of the Solingen and Lennep districts and was renamed the Rhein-Wupper district in 1931 . His definitive appointment as district administrator on the newly formed district took place on 17 February 1930. Following the seizure of power by the National Socialists should Trimbornstraße finally § 2 already March 8, 1933, on hiatus and due to BBG in retirement are put. He then made his living as a coal trader in Cologne.

former district office in Opladen (2006)

The square in front of the former district office of the Rhein-Wupper district and today's Leverkusen City Archives in Opladen was named after Peter Trimborn District Administrator-Trimborn-Platz , as was the District Administrator-Trimborn-Straße in Leichlingen .

The Association of Victims of the Nazi regime - Association of anti-fascists and anti-fascists put the end of the 1980s, the Cologne City Council a civil application before, as a result in spring 1989 next to the front door to the meeting room in the Spanish construction of the Cologne city hall a plaque in memory of those Cologne City Council was installed, the victims of National Socialism. The last of the eleven alphabetically placed names is named Peter Trimborn (SPD) (1881–1941) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives, Rhineland civil ^status archive, civil status register, Cologne IV registry office, deaths, 1941, document 65.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 784 .
3. ^ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, registry office Cologne Nippes, deaths, 1958, document 1117.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Change in our editorial team. Peter Trimborn is out. In: Rheinische Zeitung No. 239 of October 3, 1927.
5. ↑ Martin Stankowski , Ulrike Puvogel: Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein (= memorials to the victims of National Socialism. Volume 1). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 573 f. There with the wrong information that the Trimbornstrasse in Cologne-Kalk was named after Peter Trimborn, namesake in Kalk was Cornelius Trimborn .