Theodor Pennemann

Theodor Pennemann

Theodor Pennemann (born July 18, 1861 in Brual , Aschendorf district ; † November 8, 1932 in Brahe bei Brual) was a Roman Catholic farmer , agricultural functionary and German politician ( member of the Reichstag ).

life and work

After graduating from high school in Meppen in 1878, Theodor Pennemann studied theology in Münster until 1881 . At the insistence of his clerical uncle, however, he gave up his studies in order to independently head the parental farm from 1892 after preparatory practical studies. Theodor Pennemann had been a member of the electoral committee of the Center Party of the Meppen-Aschendorf-Hümmling state electoral district since 1898, and of the electoral committee of the Meppen-Lingen-Bentheim electoral district since 1903. Around 1893 began his commitment to the " People's Association for Catholic Germany ". For this most important organization of German Catholicism in the Empire, Pennemann held religious, political and profession-specific lectures throughout the Emsland , a nationwide stronghold of the Volksverein, which made him well known.

In September 1919, the center of the Aschendorf district sent him to the party's central executive committee in the Weser-Ems constituency. For the 1920 Reichstag election , the Center Party placed Theodor Pennemann, a long-time party activist and well-known agrarian lobbyist, in second place on its constituency list in the Weser-Ems constituency.

The farmer was then a member of the Reichstag for the Center Party from 1920 to 1928. Furthermore, he belonged to the Aschendorfer Kreisag at the latest from the turn of the century until shortly before the First World War and after 1919 until his death and acted as a district committee member after the war. The district council elected him district deputy, i.e. deputy to the full-time district administrator . In December 1924 the Agrarian Board of the Hanover Center Party was appointed, where he was elected 2nd Secretary in November 1925.

In 1928 he was attacked very aggressively in the wake of the rural people in need movement, whereupon Pennemann - also in poor health - refused to return to the Reichstag. At the end of 1929 he came back to the district committee of the Aschendorf district. Already from 1903 until at least 1915 the farmer acted as Brualer community leader (= mayor). In addition, until his death he was a member of the local school board and for many years on the church board .

At the same time, Theodor Pennemann made a name for himself in the region's agricultural cooperative system . In 1892 he was one of the co-founders of the Raiffeisen savings and loan association Aschendorf, of which he has been a member of the supervisory board as secretary and of which he has chaired since 1909. In 1900 he set up the Rhede dairy cooperative and headed its board until his death. In the early winter of 1919 was chosen Theodor Pennemann chairman of the local farmers' council of the district Aschendorf. When the Aschendorf Agricultural District Association was founded in 1919, the farmers elected Theodor Pennemann as 1st chairman. In March 1920 the farmer participated as a representative of the Aschendorf district in the constitution of the " Emsland Farmers Association " (EBV), on whose board he sat for years as chairman of the Aschendorf district association.

The Brualer farmer was also active in the main committee of the Ems-Weser and Reichswasserstraßenbeirat, in the transport committee of the Reichstag, in the Osnabrück district committee and in the overall committee of the Association of Hanoverian agricultural cooperatives. In addition, Pennemann was a member of the Chamber of Arbitration for the State Cultural Office in Hanover from the time it was founded in 1920 until his death, and the German Agricultural Council in Berlin had appointed him as a member. For his services to agriculture, he was awarded the title of “Economic Council” in 1920 at the latest.

In addition, he headed the Emsland Cattle Breeding Association, which he had founded as the first of its kind in the region about 40 years before his death and which he chaired until his death. Pennemann had also been a member of the Railway Council since the late 1920s. He was also appointed as an agricultural expert for the district courts of Aurich and Osnabrück. Politically, his son Gerhard Pennemann (1906–1985) became his successor. From 1947 to 1950 he was a member of the 1st Lower Saxony State Parliament for the Center Party .

literature

• German Biographical Archive / NF , Microfiche No. 990 pp. 262–263.
• Rainer Hehemann: Pennemann, Theodor . In the S. (Ed.): Biographical handbook on the history of the Osnabrück region . Rasch-Verlag, Bramsche 1990, pp. 222-223, ISBN 3-922469-49-3 (on behalf of the landscape association Osnabrück ).
• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 271-272.
• Hermann Hillger (ed.): Kürschner's German Reichstag , edition 1924 . Hillger Verlag, Berlin 1925, pp. 296-297.
• Helmut Lensing: Pennemann, Theodor . In: Studiengesellschaft für Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.): Emsländische Geschichte, Vol. 7 , 1998, pp. 212–216, ISSN  0947-8582 (with a detailed list of literature and catalog of works).

Web links

• Theodor Pennemann in the database of members of the Reichstag