Simon Groener

Simon (baptized name: Simon Nikolaus Stephan) Groener (born December 13, 1884 in Vallendar , † December 23, 1950 in Wiesbaden ) was a German district administrator.

Live and act

Simon Groener made in 1903 a high school, studied in Bonn , Freiburg and Munich Law , 1906 Court clerk and in January 1913 Gerichtsassessor . On April 17, 1913, he resigned from the judicial service and became a lawyer in Dingelstädt . During the First World War he did military service as a field artillery officer and, after being wounded, became administrator of the military hospitals in the VIII Army Corps .

After the war, Groener was taken over by the Upper Presidium of the Rhine Province and, in July 1919, trial legal advisor to the Trier government . After he had been appointed government assessor in 1920 and government councilor on December 21, 1921, on July 1, 1922, he was commissioned to manage the Neuss district administration on a representative basis . This was followed on October 1, 1922, when he was finally appointed District Administrator in Neuss. Because of the municipal reorganization, Groener had to go into temporary retirement on July 31, 1929 , was entrusted with the provisional administration of the Warendorf District Office and on January 20, 1930, he was definitively appointed District Administrator of the Warendorf District. After three years in office, he was put into temporary retirement and transferred to the Wiesbaden government on August 23, 1933 . Here he became a senior government councilor and in July 1944 moved to the high presidium in Nassau, where he was dismissed on July 13, 1945 by order of the military government.

Since February 16, 1948, Groener was employed by the Hessian State Baths Administration (Staatsbad Bad Schwalbach) and became a senior councilor in the Hessian civil service due to a cabinet decision of the Hessian state government of November 29, 1949. He retired on January 1, 1950.

Groener was a member of the center and from 1925 to 1928 a member of the Prussian state parliament . He was invested in Jerusalem by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

Honors

Honorary citizen of the city of Büderich

literature

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 280f. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16).
• Patrick Bormann: Dr. Simon Groener (1884–1950), in: District history in the mirror of biography. The district administrators and senior district directors of the Rhein-Kreis Neuss and its legal predecessors from 1816 to the present, ed. from the Rhein-Kreis Neuss - The District Administrator - Archive in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss - Stephen Schröder. Publications of the archive in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss. Vol. 2, Neuss 2019, pp. 280–295.