Heinrich Konen

Heinrich Mathias Konen ( born September 16, 1874 in Cologne, † 31 December 1948 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German physicist and a CDU politician.

Life and career

Heinrich Konen received his doctorate in 1897 in physics from the University of Bonn, where he habilitated in 1902. He followed in 1905 a professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and returned in 1920 at the Friedrich- Wilhelms University in Bonn back.

From 1929 /30 and in the summer semester 1931 he was rector of the University of Bonn. By the Nazis, he was forced into retirement in 1934 as a staunch opponent of the regime - he refused the swastika flagging the University and the Hitler salute - and went into the industry. After the end of World War II, he returned to his chair at Bonn University and the British military government appointed him in 1945 as their first postwar rector one. Cones held the office of Rector until January 1948.

Policy

He was before the seizure of power by the National Socialists to the Catholic center, joined after the war and was the CDU from 1946 to 1947 Minister of Culture of North Rhine -Westphalia in the cabinets Amelunxen II and Arnold I.

Since Heinrich Konen, because he wanted to give all returning soldiers to study, did not follow the licensing restrictions set by the authorities, he was again dismissed in 1947. The following year he died. His modest grave lies on the Poppelsdorfer cemetery.

His scientific field was spectroscopy.