Wilhelm Happ
Wilhelm Happ (born May 4, 1886 in Dorsten , † January 3, 1958 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German administrative officer and association president of the Ruhr coal district settlement association .
Life
After attending the humanistic grammar school in Dorsten , Wilhelm Happ studied law in Freiburg and Münster . After his time as a court trainee and court assessor in Cologne, he did military service from May 5, 1915 to October 31, 1918 . He started out again as a court assessor and in December 1920 was entrusted with the provisional administration of the Schlochau District Office, where he occupied the office a short time later. In December 1922 he was appointed chief president of the board of directors of the Posen-West Prussia border region in Schneidemühl , where he became its vice-president in 1925. In May 1926 he took over the office of President of the Ruhr coal district. After Happ had become district president in Breslau in July 1930 , he was transferred to temporary retirement on March 8, 1933. The basis for this was Section 6 of the law on the restoration of the civil service . On December 1, 1937, he became legal advisor to the episcopal ordinariate and was later in contact with people in the resistance.
After the war , from November 1, 1946, he was the transition commissioner for communal affairs at the Presidential Government of Rhineland-Hesse-Nassau and was entrusted with the management of the affairs of the ministerial director in the Ministry of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate on January 1, 1947 . In this function he was the representative of the Interior Minister. Happ retired on March 31, 1951. The year before, he had achieved through reparation proceedings that the period of his compulsory retirement should be considered as pensionable. He was a member of the center .
literature
- Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918 to 1945/1946). Aschendorff-Verlag Münster, ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4 .
Web links
- Wilhelm Happ entry in the Internet portal "Westphalian History"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Happ, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative officer, President of the Ruhr coal district |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dorsten |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1958 |
| Place of death | bad Godesberg |