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Richard Hengst (born January 2, 1903 in Dortmund , † 1982 ) was a German lawyer in local government. During the German occupation of Luxembourg , he was Lord Mayor of Luxembourg City from 1942 to 1943 .

Life

The trained lawyer entered the municipal service after the second state examination. From 1929 he was initially a city assessor in Düsseldorf . He joined the NSDAP in 1932 and the SA the following year . From 1932 he was mayor and, as successor to Erich Damerow, from 1933 to 1940 he was mayor of Köthen . There he was also chairman of the supervisory board of Stadtwerke Köthen AG.

After the beginning of the Second World War he took part in the western campaign. He then became City Commissioner of the City of Luxembourg and served there from July 1942 to July 1943 as Lord Mayor. Due to differing views on politics in Luxembourg with the head of the civil administration (CdZ) in Luxembourg Gustav Simon wanted to do military service again. The Reich Ministry of the Interior rejected this request. Hengst became Lord Mayor of Liegnitz in October 1943 and held this office until the end of the war.

Shortly after the end of the war, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets on May 10, 1945, from which he was released in September 1945 due to war injuries. In December 1945 he was transferred to Luxembourg by Hanns Kaufmann and taken to the prison at Fort Rubamprez . Because there were no charges against him, he was deported to Germany.

Stallion was denazified . He worked as a legal advisor in the spirits industry and was awarded a doctorate in December 1951 at the University of Marburg with a thesis on distilling law. jur. PhD . From 1953 he was city director in Hameln and acted from 1955 until his retirement in 1967 as senior district director of the Bersenbrück district . In honor of Hengst, a nursing home for the elderly and a boulder as a memorial for rabbit regulation were named after him.

In the Soviet zone of occupation , his book “Construction of the City Administration in Luxembourg” was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in 1948 .

Fonts

  • Establishment of the city administration in Luxembourg , Luxembourg 1941
  • Distilling law in German monopoly legislation, Bleckede Castle ad Elbe, Meissner 1953 (also dissertation at the University of Marburg)
  • Will and grow: The district of Bersenbrück from 1955 - 1965 , district of Bersenbrück 1966

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Kurt Anders, Friedhelm Finke: Liegnitz as we knew it , contributions to the history of Liegnitz. Annual gift for the members of the Liegnitz Historical Society, Weber, 1977, p. 151
  2. ↑ a b c Götz Aly / Katja Happe (eds.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 , Vol. 5. Western and Northern Europe: 1940 - June 1942 , Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 2012, P. 572
  3. ↑ Günther Windschild, Helmut Schmid (Ed.): Karl Fr. E. Windschild: With the finger in front of the mouth ... Ballenstedt diary of the pastor Karl Fr. E. Windschild 1931-1944 , Anhaltische Verlagsgesellschaft, Dessau 1999, p. 532
  4. ^ Henri Beck: L'administration municipale: De l'organization municipale luxembourgeoise au régime nazi , in: Ons stad, 71/2002 (fr). There is also a photograph of a stallion in an SA uniform.
  5. ↑ The hunt for Gauleiter Simon . In: revue. De Magazin fir Letzebuerg , issue 45 of November 6, 2013, p. 20
  6. ^ The spirits industry: Journal for the spirit industry , volumes 79-80, 1957, p. 101
  7. ^ "Richard Hengst" retirement and nursing home , at DRK Kreisverband Osnabrück-Nord
  8. ↑ Foundling Dr. Stallion Stein am Hasewehr in Bersenbrück , at geo archiv
  9. ^ German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Zone of Occupation, List of Literature to be Separated, Second Addendum , Second Addendum, Deutscher Zentralverlag, Berlin 1948
personal data
SURNAME Stallion, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and local politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH 1982