Rudolf Amelunxen

Rudolf Amelunxen (* June 30, 1888 in Cologne, † April 21, 1969 in the monastery County, today Schmallenberg ( Sauerland circle) ) was a German politician of the Centre Party and the first Prime Minister of North Rhine -Westphalia.

Life and career

Amelunxen was the son of a bill council at the Royal Prussian Railway Directorate in Cologne. In 1909 he graduated from high school at the same school as Konrad Adenauer, the Apostle School. He studied at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg Law, History and psychiatry. He became aware of the social problems of the working class through its involvement in the social movement student Carl sunshine. He subsequently moved to the University of Berlin, then to Bonn in 1912 and laid the first state exam and then the second state examination. In 1914 he received his doctorate at the University of Erlangen with the topic Violation of the obligation to pay maintenance of the illegitimate father of criminal and poor policing point of view a doctorate in law.

Amelunxen was from 1919 to 1933 in the Prussian administrative service, initially in the Welfare Ministry, since 1923 in the State Department, where he rose to the Ministerial and then even to the personal assistant of the Social Democratic Prime Minister Otto Braun. Since 1926 he was a government minister in Münster. After the Prussian coup he was transferred on March 30, 1932 in temporary retirement and replaced by the State Secretary of the Reich Chancellery, Hermann Pünder. Maybe doing a personal enmity of the Chancellor Franz von Papen was also, as assumed by Amelunxen itself, decisive, whose unusually high expense allowance as honorary mayor of Merfeld at Dülmen he had several years earlier slashed.

During the period of National Socialism, he worked as an assistant mechanic.

Amelunxen was buried at the North Cemetery in Dusseldorf.

Party

During the Empire Amelunxen was a Democrat, after 1919 he was regarded as representatives of the left wing of the Centre Party, which he joined in 1947 after the re-establishment again. 1949 Amelunxen was a candidate of the Centre Party for the office of president, but received 28 (1st round) and 30 votes (2nd ballot) only the third most votes behind Theodor Heuss (FDP) and Kurt Schumacher ( SPD). Amelunxen was a staunch opponent of efforts to nuclear armament during the 1950s.

Member of Parliament

1946/47, Amelunxen was a member of the Zonal Advisory Council of the British occupation zone. In 1949 he was elected to the German Bundestag, resigned from his position on October 7, but already down to remain member of the government in North Rhine -Westphalia can. By 1958, he was then a member of the Landtag, which he had attached Member, then listened to since 1946 from 1947 as a member of the center.

Public offices

After the Second World War, he was appointed by the British occupation force on July 5, 1945 Oberpräsident of Westphalia and on July 24, 1946, the first Prime Minister of North Rhine -Westphalia, with him as ( at that time) politically uncommitted management expert is preferred over Oberpräsident the Rhine Province, Robert Lehr, and the Mayor of Düsseldorf, Karl Arnold, who had also been taken into consideration was given. On 29 August 1946, the first Cabinet Amelunxen began its work. In this he took a short time the office of Minister of Culture.

With the first state election in 1947 Amelunxen was replaced by Karl Arnold ( CDU) as prime minister and took over the government until 1950 the office of the social, and then to 1958 in the government of Fritz Steinhoff (SPD), the Minister of Justice.

Writings

  • Ways to people's state (1947 )
  • Fight against poverty (1948 )
  • Men of honor and Warlock (1960 )
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