Rudolf zur Bonsen

Rudolf Walther Matthias Maria zur Bonsen (born October 28, 1886 in Fredeburg , Sauerland , † October 18, 1952 in Grainau ) was a German administrative lawyer and district president .

Life

The son of the high school teacher and historian Friedrich zur Bonsen and his wife Maria Elisabeth, née Hömberg, were born in Fredeburg. Rudolf zur Bonsen completed his law studies with a doctorate . In 1909 he became a court trainee in Hamm , later in Haltern and Münster . In 1914 he was promoted to court assessor and drafted into military service in the same year. He was used in the civil administration in Belgium until the end of the First World War .

From 1919 he worked for the government and then for the senior president in Königsberg (Prussia) . He then moved in September 1919 as a government assessor for the Cologne district . There he was appointed government councilor under Vice President Karl Budding in 1922 , whose right hand he was in dealings with the occupying powers. He later became an assessor and then chairman of the Cologne District Committee. On May 1, 1932, he joined the NSDAP . On February 22, 1933, he was appointed Vice President of the Government, on April 24, 1933, as Acting President and on June 15, 1933, District President. In the spring of 1934, after a personal dispute with Hermann Göring about cultural and church politics, he was initially put into temporary retirement . Due to sharp criticism in the foreign press, he was appointed regional president of the district of Stettin eight days later, on April 20, 1934 . In Stettin , in sharp contradiction to the party, he was put into temporary retirement on October 16, 1934, with immediate effect . In October 1936 von Bonsen was appointed acting president of the Berlin building and finance department. In December 1936, the company was transferred to temporary retirement for the third time . At the end of 1940 he went into final retirement. From 1937 to 1952 he lived in seclusion in Grainau / Upper Bavaria.

Grave of the Schanzleh family (Melaten cemetery)

As a NSDAP member, Rudolf zu Bonsen was classified as "exonerated" in the proceedings of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Chamber of Justice . From 1933 to 1936 he was a member of the committee of the Kölnischer Kunstverein .

He was buried in the family grave of his wife Olga geb. Schanzleh at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (MA, between lit. V + W).

literature

• Robert Becker: The regional presidents in Cologne during the Nazi era 1933–1945, Rudolf zur Bonsen p. 14, Cologne district government (ed.), 10/2011 pdf ( Memento from June 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Reinhold Zilch, Bärbel Holtz (edit.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. In: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Acta Borussica . New episode. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-487-12704-0 , p. 530 ( Online ; PDF 2.14 MB).
• Robert Steimel: Cologne heads. Robert Steimel Verlag 1958
• Patrick Sensburg : The great lawyers of the Sauerland . 22 biographies of outstanding legal scholars. 1st edition. FW Becker, Arnsberg 2002, ISBN 978-3-930264-45-2 (276 pages).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ute Haug: The Cologne Art Association in National Socialism Structure and development of an art institution in the cultural and political landscape of the 'Third Reich'. University of Aachen, 1998, p. 34, p. 243 ( Online ; PDF , 42 MB)
2. ↑ Rudolf zur Bonsen . In: Ulrich S. Soénius (Hrsg.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Hrsg.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 73.
3. ^ Robert Becker: The district presidents in Cologne during the Nazi era 1933–1945, Rudolf zur Bonsen p. 16, Cologne district government (ed.), 10/2011
4. ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 165.