Wilhelm Kiwit

Wilhelm Kiwit (born July 31, 1883 in Oberhausen ; † December 7, 1959 in Münster ) was a German administrative officer , politician , city treasurer in Cologne , mayor of the cities of Arnsberg , Münster and Ahlen (there also city director ) and mayor of Wanne-Eickel .

Life

After studying law at the Universities of Bonn , Münster and Berlin , Wilhelm Kiwit joined the city of Neuss as a city assessor on July 16, 1910 when he passed the second state examination . Shortly afterwards, however, he settled as a lawyer in Oberhausen (October 17, 1910) before he took over the position of the district syndicus in Prenzlau on December 15, 1916 during the First World War . Further posts were the office of the alderman of the city of Osterfeld (August 15, 1917), the mayor of the city of Arnsberg (July 1, 1919) and the 2nd mayor of the city of Münster (April 26, 1922) before he was appointed to the First mayor, the newly formed town of Wanne-Eickel on April 1, 1926, was elected. Since December 29, 1929 he held the title of Lord Mayor there. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists on 21 September 1933 on leave, took Kiwit of 19 September 1934 until his release on 31 May 1936 at the instigation of the Nazi party , as city treasurer in Cologne re-employment in the public service. As a non-member of the NSDAP, he resigned as an alderman on the basis of Section 6 of the Professional Civil Service Act . As a result, Kiwit worked as an administrative and city councilor in Cologne and as such worked out ideas on urban development with special consideration of an expansion of the urban area, which he published in 1939 in a memorandum (see publications). In the summer of 1943 he reaffirmed his ideas for urban expansion in order to preserve the economic and vital strength of the increasingly destroyed city in this way. With the end of the Second World War in West Germany, Kiwit was deployed in the spring / summer of 1945 as the second deputy of the city of Bocholt . He was then mayor from September 29, 1945 to February 19, 1946 and subsequently, until his retirement on July 31, 1951, city director of the city of Ahlen. He then worked as a lawyer specializing in administrative and tax law at the Münster Regional Court . Wilhelm Kiwit was a member of the Center Party .

family

The Catholic Wilhelm Kiwit was married to Elisabeth geb. Becker, who was born in Münster in 1925 with the work “On the Passivity of Metals” , which was created together with Hermine Hilberg , on Dr. phil. PhD . Their son is the long-time senior district director of the Rhein-Sieg district , Walter Kiwit .

Fonts

The need for a higher appreciation by the savings banks. Memorandum, published by the mayor, Wanne-Eickel 1930.
The right of the old saver: Critical considerations about the injustice and illegality of the provisions on the formation of a savings bank equalization fund. How does the old saver preserve his rights resulting from an individual revaluation of the savings banks? Bouvet, Wanne-Eickel 1932.
The cause of the financial distress / a characteristic individual case. in: Der Städtetag - Volume 27, No. 1 from January 7, 1933.
The city of Cologne as the economic and cultural center of a space. The need to expand the urban area of Cologne. Cologne 1939.

literature

Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia XXII A, Historical Works on Westphalian State Research, Economic and Social History Group, Volume 16), Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 191.
Horst Matzerath : Cologne in the time of National Socialism 1933–1945. (History of the City of Cologne, 12), Greven Verlag Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7743-0429-1 (linen) or ISBN 978-3-7743-0430-7 (half leather).

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual.
↑ ^a ^b Horst Matzerath: Cologne in the time of National Socialism 1933–1945.
↑ Who is who? The German Who's Who. Regional edition North Rhine-Westphalia. -Regional volume from the XXXVI. Edition 1997/98. Schmidt-Röhmhild Verlag, Essen 1997, ISBN 3-7950-2023-9 , p. 295.

personal data
SURNAME	Kiwit, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German administrative officer and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 31, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH	7th December 1959
Place of death	Muenster

[Lilla-1] A ^b ^c Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual.

[Matzerath-2] Horst Matzerath: Cologne in the time of National Socialism 1933–1945.

[3] Who is who? The German Who's Who. Regional edition North Rhine-Westphalia. -Regional volume from the XXXVI. Edition 1997/98. Schmidt-Röhmhild Verlag, Essen 1997, ISBN 3-7950-2023-9 , p. 295.