Peter Winkelnkemper (politician)

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Peter Winkelnkemper (born January 16, 1902 in Wiedenbrück , † June 21, 1944 in Cologne ) was a German National Socialist journalist and local politician. From 1941 he was Lord Mayor of Cologne. His brother was the radio journalist Toni Winkelnkemper .

Life

Winkelnkemper, brother of the director of the Reichsender Köln , Toni Winkelnkemper , studied economics at the University of Cologne after completing his Abitur in the summer semester of 1925 and in 1927 passed the examination to become a business graduate. The topic of the housework was: "The state idea in the context of Spengler's historical morphology". On February 27, 1930, he passed the Rigorosum and was awarded a doctorate due to his work “The historical morphological economic analysis of Oswald Spengler” (first reviewer: Christian Eckert ). rer. pole. PhD .

Winkelnkemper had been a member of the NSDAP since November 1, 1930 ( membership number 240.100). From April 1, 1931 he was chief editor of the Cologne NSDAP newspaper Westdeutscher Beobachter . He also worked for the newspaper Völkischer Beobachter . On May 17, 1933, he gave a speech during the book burning in Cologne.

After Christian Eckert's dismissal as managing chairman of the Cologne University Board of Trustees, Cologne's Lord Mayor Günter Riesen announced on October 6, 1933 that I did not intend to fill the position for the time being. Until further notice, I will take over the position myself. However, on November 3, 1933, the provisional appointment of Winkelnkemper as managing chairman was announced, followed by the definitive appointment on December 9, 1933 and his introduction to the office on December 19. Dr. W. thanks the mayor and gives an overview of the political status of the university and its near future. The University of Cologne is now marching at the top of the German universities in terms of national policy.

Problems arose, however, from the appointment of Winkelnkemper on March 13, 1933 as State Commissioner to the Minister for Science, Education and Popular Education . This accumulation of offices was repeatedly criticized by the ministry, which is why Winkelnkemper was released from the office of provisional state commissioner on November 10, 1934, but suggested Joseph Grohé, the NSDAP Gauleiter of Cologne / Aachen, as state commissioner for the University of Cologne in his place . He retained the better-paid office of Executive Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Almost four years later, the contract was terminated on September 30, 1937; Due to the findings of the files, he was no longer tenable in his position due to financial problems.

Grave in the Melaten cemetery (July 2018)

As the successor to the late Karl Georg Schmidt , Winkelnkemper was appointed Lord Mayor of Cologne on January 4, 1941 . Winkelnkemper also died in this capacity in 1944 at the age of 42, allegedly as a result of a heart attack. He was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (MA no. 302a, between HWG and lit. P).

His grave was initially marked with a simple wooden cross with only Winkelnkemper on it. Together with the rest of the cemetery, the grave was placed under monument protection by the city curator in the 1980s. A citizen took over the sponsorship for the maintenance of the grave in 1982. After the godfather's death, the weathered cross was replaced by a simple tombstone. The grave site was cleared in January 2019. The tombstone can be taken to the depot of the NS Documentation Center. The tombstone is intended to serve as a contemporary historical exhibit.

After the end of the Second World War, Winkelnkempers, together with Ernst Leupold and Hermann Müller, wrote The new student law. Speeches at the solemn announcement of student rights on May 1, 1933 (Müller, Cologne 1933) in the Soviet occupation zone put on the list of literature to be sorted out.

literature

  • Andreas Freitäger: "K. and k. op kölsch “- From the executive chairman of the board of trustees to the chancellor of the university . In: Peter Hanau u. a. (Ed.): Dedicated administration for science. Festschrift for Johannes Neyses, Chancellor of the University of Cologne on his 60th birthday . Cologne: University and City Library 2007, pp. 81–102.
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diploma examination files in UA Cologne, access 4/3332; the doctoral file in: Access 70/297.
  2. ↑ Information based on the file Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, Acc. 255 / 1182a.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 602.
  4. ↑ The quote from the UA Cologne personnel file, access 17/6330.
  5. ↑ Cologne's most mysterious places: grave of Nazi mayor at Melaten cemetery cleared Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger February 4, 2019, accessed on April 7, 2020
  6. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-l.html
personal data
SURNAME Winkelnkemper, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist journalist and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiedenbrück
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1944
Place of death Cologne