Wilhelm Stöfen

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Monument to Wilhelm Stöfen at Stöfenpark, 2017

Wilhelm Stöfen (born March 17, 1874 , † November 27, 1954 ) was a German local politician and mayor of Marne (Holstein) .

Life

Wilhelm Stöfen was a council member of the city of Marne from 1919 to 1924 and mayor from 1924 to 1937. As mayor, he worked together with the principal of the secondary school in Marne to ensure that it was converted into an upper secondary school in 1927 , which later became the Marne grammar school.

In 1937 the elected mayor Stöfen was replaced by the NSDAP local group leader Hans Wigger, who had been Stöfen's deputy since 1934. In return, due to Wigger's lack of qualifications, the administrative specialist Stöfen was placed at his side from 1937 to 1945 in the post of 1st deputy. After the end of the Nazi dictatorship , Stöfen was reinstated as Mayor of Marne from 1945 to 1946.

Wilhelm Stöfen was the owner of a leased farm in Marne. He died in 1954 at the age of 80 and was buried in the Marne cemetery. He bequeathed his farm to the city of Marne for further urban development and social purposes. The area was developed into an urban park, the Stöfenpark.

Honors

  • In May 1954 Wilhelm Stöfen received the Federal Cross of Merit .
  • In addition to the Stöfenpark, the Bürgermeister-Stöfen-Strasse in Marne is named after Stöfen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The time when our school was founded (19th century - 1933) , website of the Marne High School, accessed on November 9, 2019
  2. ↑ The Wigger picture is gone , boyens-medien.de, April 25, 2019
  3. ^ Dietrich Stein: Lynchmord in der Südermarsch - The death of Adolf Bauer in 1932 in Rösthusen near Marne . Ed .: Working group for research into National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein eV (=  information on Schleswig-Holstein's contemporary history . Supplement 8). Kiel 2018, p. 43 .
  4. ↑ Jochen: Signposts about the cemetery in Marne. 16 Wilhelm Stöfen, 1874-1954, mayor. Marne Parish, May 16, 2016, accessed November 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Stöfen, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1874
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1954