Wilhelm Leopold Janssen (politician, 1891)

William Leopold Janssen (* 20th November 1891 in Aachen , † 8. April 1945 in Westerbork ) was a Prussian civil servant and in 1928 District Administrator of the district Aachen .

Life

Wilhelm Leopold Janssen was the son of the cloth manufacturer of the same name in the company JH Kesselkaul grandson and royal Italian consul Wilhelm Leopold Janssen (born July 4, 1859 in Stettin; † February 2, 1915 in Aachen) and Maria Dubusc, daughter of the mayor Carl Gerard Dubusc . His grandfather was the long-time district administrator of the Heinsberg district , Wilhelm Leopold Janssen . After attending the Kaiser Wilhelm High School , he studied law in Lausanne, Freiburg im Breisgau and Bonn. After passing the first state examination (1913) he entered the Prussian judicial service as a trainee lawyer, where he was employed in Eupen and from 1918 in Stolberg. He took part in the First World War from 1914 until the end of 1918 as a lieutenant and finally as a lieutenant in the reserve of the 6th Cuirassier Regiment. During the war he was wounded and awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class. In 1921 he received his doctorate from the University of Frankfurt with a thesis on the position of the head of the Reich under the Weimar Constitution for Dr. jur. He then entered the Prussian administrative service on December 1, 1921 and found employment with the Aachen government . There he received his appointment as a government assessor in 1922. During the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923, Janssen served a six-month prison sentence for organizing passive resistance and was then expelled from the occupied Rhineland. He temporarily found a job with the government in Arnsberg and Barmen before he was able to return to the government in Aachen at the end of 1924.

This commissioned him in May 1928, after the election of the previous Heinsberg district administrator Erwin Classen as the new district administrator of the district of Aachen, to represent him as an interim solution until his practical start in October 1928. Janssen was a member of the Aachen government until November 1931. He resigned when he was elected councilor of the city of Aachen, at the same time he was a member of the city council. Retired in May 1937 for political reasons, he then found employment as a legal advisor in industry. In 1941 Janssen was drafted into the Wehrmacht , to which he last belonged as Rittmeister of the reserve . Four days before the Westerbork transit camp was liberated , on April 12, 1945 by Canadian troops, he fell in Westerbork.

In 1922 Janssen joined the Aachener Casino Club , of which he was later made an honorary member.

family

The Catholic Wilhelm Leopold Janssen married Anna Luise Klara Sträter (born December 31, 1897 in Aachen; † April 15, 1992 ibid.) On June 28, 1922 in Aachen , the daughter of the Privy Councilor Carl Gottfried Eduard Sträter (* July 3, 1856 in Rheine; † October 20, 1926 in Aachen) and Paula, b. Kesselkaul (born June 12, 1865 in Burscheid, † May 18, 1949 in Aachen). Her son, who later became Prof. Dr. jur. Friedrich Wilhelm Fritz Janssen (born July 3, 1926 in Aachen; † August 22, 1992 there), also studied law. In 1966 he was a district treasurer like his father in the service of the Aachen district. His sister Elisabeth Janssen worked as a librarian in the Aachen City Archives and was an honorary member of the Aachen History Association . A brother-in-law of Wilhelm Leopold Janssen was Hermann Sträter , who headed the Aachen district in 1944/45. The Wilhelm Leopold Janssen family found their final resting place in the hot mountain cemetery in Burtscheid / Aachen .

Fonts

• The head of the Reich according to the constitution of the German Reich of August 11, 1919 (= also dissertation University of Frankfurt, 1921)
• with Eduard Arens: History of the Club Aachener Casino. Aachen 1937 (2nd edition, edited by Elisabeth Janssen and Felix Kuetgens , 1964)
• History of the company " JH Kesselkaul Enkel " ... Cloth factory in Aachen 1815–1940. A contribution to the history of cloth manufacturing in Aachen. Aachen 1940
• The descendants of Johann Heinrich Kesselkaul and Johanna Gertrud Graaff from Aachen. Aachen 1940

literature

• District of Aachen (Ed.): 150 years of the district of Aachen. Aachen 1966, p. 55.
• Herbert M. Schleicher: 80,000 death notes from Rhenish collections (= publications of the West German Society for Family Studies , New Series No. 38) Volume II. Cologne 1987, p. 578.
• Eduard Arens , Wilhelm Leopold Janssen: Club Aachener Casino. 2nd edition, printed by Metz, Aachen 1964, p. 239.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Herbert M. Schleicher: 80,000 death notes from Rhenish collections.
2. ^ ^{A b c d} Eduard Arens, Wilhelm Leopold Janssen: Club Aachener Casino.
3. ^ Wilhelm Leopold Janssen: The head of the Reich after the constitution of the German Empire of August 11, 1919.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Aachen district (ed.): 150 years Aachen district
5. ^ Anna Luise Klara Sträter (In: genealogieonline). Retrieved July 20, 2020 . 
6. ^ Carl Gottfried Eduard Sträter (In: genealogieonline). Retrieved July 20, 2020 . 
7. ^ Paula Kesselkaul (In: genealogieonline). Retrieved July 20, 2020 . 
8. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Fritz Janssen (In: genealogieonline). Retrieved July 20, 2020 . 
9. ^ Obituary for Elisabeth Janssen