Philipp Haerten

Philipp Haerten (born December 12, 1869 in Rotterdam , † April 4, 1942 in Münster ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician .

Life

Haerten was the son of the factory owner Ludwig Haerten and his wife Marie nee Roeffs. He was of Catholic denomination and married to Maria Göring (* May 16, 1884 in Münster; † July 13, 1963, ibid.).

He spent his childhood in Geldern and graduated from high school in Warburg in 1888. He then studied law at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich and Bonn. After the first state examination in law at the Cologne Higher Regional Court in 1892, he was a trainee lawyer at the judicial authorities in Cologne, Geldern and Kleve, and in 1897 he passed the state examination. He then worked as an assessor at various judicial authorities, including Gladbach.

In 1899 he became magistrate assessor in Münster (Westphalia) and rose there in 1901 to the position of town counsel and full-time member of the magistrate. From 1907 to 1919 he was mayor of Limburg an der Lahn . After 1909/10 he was also a member of the district council of the Limburg district and the district committee there. 1915–1918 (1915–1916 as representative for Wilhelm Hartmann ) he was a member of the Nassau municipal parliament and the provincial parliament of the Hesse-Nassau province for the constituency of the Limburg district . In the communal parliament he was 1916-1918 member of the civil servants and submissions committee.

In 1919 he was elected First Mayor of the City of Paderborn and shortly after inauguration received the title of "Lord Mayor". In 1931 he was re-elected for a further twelve years. With the seizure of power by the Nazis, he had to leave office on November 1, 1933rd He moved back to Munster where he lived for the rest of his life.

literature

• Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the historical commission for Nassau. 71 = prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , p. 124.

Web links

• Haerten, Philipp Anton Maria in the Hessian biography