Wilhelm Albert Kettner

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Wilhelm 'Willi' Albert Kettner (born February 15, 1913 in Wilnsdorf ; † May 7, 1990 ibid) was a German local politician ( CDU ) and district administrator of the Siegen district .

Life

Wilhelm Albert Kettner, nickname Willi , was the eldest son of six children of a Wilnsdorf miner . He was involved in the Catholic youth movement and, as a bitter opponent of National Socialism, was not spared from arrests and house searches; for this reason he left the Siegerland in 1935 and worked briefly on a farm near Freiburg im Breisgau .

After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he worked from 1938 to 1961 as a banker and managing director of a construction company branch in Siegen . In 1961 he bought the construction company in Gießen and was their managing director until 1978.

He lived in Rudersdorf.

Political party

Kettner joined the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) in 1946 and was one of the co-founders of the party in Siegerland after the end of the Second World War. From 1960 to 1977 he was deputy district chairman of the CDU.

politics

From 1945 to 1965 he was the deputy mayor of the then independent municipality of Rudersdorf and a member of the council from 1946 to 1965. The focus of his political work was the establishment of a water supply and the designation of building areas.

From October 17, 1948 to December 31, 1974, Kettner was a member of the district assembly of the district of Siegen and its advisory board member from May 3, 1975 to September 30, 1984.

From 1969 to 1985 he was a member of the council of the community of Wilnsdorf for the CDU and was involved as CDU parliamentary group chairman (1969–1983) for the settlement of commercial enterprises, the creation of supply and disposal systems and the redesign of a center in Wilnsdorf.

From 1961 to 1964 he was district administrator for the Siegen district. From 1965 onwards he held the office of deputy district administrator due to a changed majority. He held this until 1969.

He belonged to the district committee (03 / 1961–1978) and was chairman (03 / 1961-10 / 64) and deputy. Chair (10 / 62-12 / 74). From 1948 to 1978 he was a member of the district finance committee and had been chairman since 1964. He was a member of numerous other committees, including the school committee, which campaigned for the expansion and further expansion of the Siegerland technical school, and vocational and school committee for the Siegerland vocational and technical schools.

Honors

  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (June 18, 1979)

swell

  • The Federal Republic of Germany: Part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Verlag C. Heymanns 1967, page 318
  • Lothar Irle : Siegerland Personalities and Gender Lexicon, Siegen 1974, page 173
  • District of Siegen-Wittgenstein, Files on the Award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1978–1979 (August 17, 1979)
  • District Assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): Documentation about the district administrators and senior district directors in North Rhine-Westphalia 1945–1991, Düsseldorf 1992, page 390
  • Siegerland home calendar 1991, page 36 (with picture)
  • Article Siegener Zeitung of May 30, 1973 and May 8, 1990

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i District Archive Siegen-Wittgenstein: Information from November 19, 2015
  2. ^ Obituary in the Siegerländer Heimatkalender from 1991, p. 36, Verlag für Heimatliteratur
  3. ↑ Office of the Federal President
predecessor Office successor
Joseph Buettner District Administrator of the district of Siegen
1961–1964 		Hermann Schmidt
personal data
SURNAME Kettner, Wilhelm Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kettner, Willi (first name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilnsdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1990
Place of death Wilnsdorf