Rudolf favor
Rudolf Gunst (born November 16, 1883 at Gut Hembsen near Brakel , † October 2, 1965 in Graefelfing ) was a German municipal official and activist of the Catholic peace movement.
family
He comes from a originally from Fritzlar originating patrician family and was the son of a landowner and member of the Prussian parliament. The grandfather was also a member of parliament. Both were active in the Center Party and rooted in Catholicism . He himself married Maria Wulf from Wiesbaden. The marriage resulted in a son who was killed in the house-to-house war for Berlin in the last days of the Second World War .
Life
Favor visited in Coesfeld high school and studied in Kiel , Paris , Munich and Münster law and economics . During his time in Paris he was a member of a Catholic student association. In 1908 he passed the trainee exam.
He then worked in the local administration in Brakel and in the provincial administration in Münster. In 1910 he received his doctorate. jur. From 1908 to 1911 he was head of the municipal administration in Eisleben . Between 1912 and 1913 he was employed by the office in Hüsten . For a while he also worked in Windhoek in South West Africa . Then he was first alderman in Lublinitz in Upper Silesia .
During the First World War he served as a volunteer. With the rank of lieutenant he took part in the fighting on the Western Front and was seriously wounded. The aftermath of gas poisoning made him unable to work for several months in 1923. Pacifist remarks by him have been passed down since 1917.
In 1919 he became a bailiff of the office of Hüsten. Since around 1927 his title has been mayor. At his suggestion, the home calendar for the Hüsten office was published. In addition, Gunst was active in the Catholic peace movement. He belonged to the Peace League of German Catholics . He was one of the most active members and was known beyond the borders of Germany. In 1931/32 he was chairman of the German section. He was one of the organizers of the great peace meeting on the Borberg near Brilon in 1931, in which Franz Stock took part. At a peace meeting in Amsterdam he gave a widely acclaimed speech on the reconciliation of peoples. He took part in numerous other peace congresses at home and abroad.
He met with disapproval from nationalist circles. Already in the 1920s he had arguments with the National Socialist-minded chaplain at St. Petri in Hüsten Lorenz Pieper . The National Socialists' displeasure against favor was able to vent after the start of National Socialist rule in 1933. The National Socialists accused him of being loyal to the republic, of his activities in the peace movement and of his efforts to protect Jewish citizens. Soon there were calls for resignation. In the spring of 1933 he was arrested by the Gestapo in Dortmund during an official meeting. For fear of the SA, the family rarely took to the streets afterwards. In June 1933 he was dismissed from office after he and his family had to partially hide in the forest. His possessions were looted and the valuable furniture was thrown out of the windows of the office building. His war injury, which bothered him again and again, was taken as a reason to accuse him of permanent incapacity and even to oblige him to pay "5000 RM as compensation for the civil law claims asserted to the office".
The family lived in Berlin until 1935 . After a trip to America, he lived as a private citizen in Graefelfing. There is little information about his time during the following years. In 1946 he was elected mayor of his place of residence and played a key role in setting up the local government. In 1947 he became district administrator of the Munich district . He was heavily involved in building the new district hospital in Munich-Pasing. After leaving office a year later for reasons of age, he remained a member of the district council and was chairman of the CSU parliamentary group.
He was a founding member of the party and the European Union . He also played a key role in the re-establishment of the Peace League of German Catholics. On March 5, 1953, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. In 1963 he received the gold medal from the municipality of Graefelfing. He bequeathed a considerable fortune to the community for the construction of a retirement home. This is called "Rudolf and Maria Gunst House." There is a memorial plaque on the former Hüsten administrative building.
literature
- Karl Föster : Dr. Rudolf favor. In: Hüsten - 1200 years. Arnsberg 2002, pp. 73-78
- Reinhard Richter: National thinking in Catholicism of the Weimar Republic. Münster u. a., 2000 p. 134
- Günter Cronau : The office - the obsolete institution. In: "Becoming-Growing-Working". District administrations in the HSK. Arnsberg 2007, pp. 130f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Bürger : Courageous people, almost forgotten . In: Landwirtschaftliches Wochenblatt Westfalen-Lippe 43/2014, p. 6263
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Favor, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Good Hembsen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 1965 |
| Place of death | Graefelfing |