Hermann Maas (politician)

Hermann Maas (born March 28, 1898 in Lüchow ; † November 10, 1980 in Hamburg ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ). From 1937 to 1945 he was Lord Mayor of Delmenhorst .

Life

Maas was the son of the postal assistant Hermann Maas. In World War I he enlisted after completion of secondary school in the May 1915 war volunteered and served until December 1918 as dragoons and pilots in the German army . After the end of the war, he completed an engineering apprenticeship at the higher ship and mechanical engineering school in Kiel and then studied economics . He then worked temporarily as a shipbuilding engineer and assistant director at Deutsche Werken Kiel (DWK). After all, from December 1, 1925 to August 10, 1932, he was in-house counsel for the Segeberg district craftsmen's association . During this time he had joined the NSDAP and the SA in January 1931 , in which he was under a reserve sturmbann as Hauptsturmführer until April 1937 . Also in January he was elected mayor of the city of Bad Bramstedt , which he held from August 11, 1932 to November 12, 1933. In November 1933, Maas was appointed mayor of Emden by order of the Prussian Interior Ministry . Under his leadership, the city was able to carry out systematic debt repayment in the following years, but Maas, as before in Bad Bramstedt, was still in conflict with the local NSDAP district leadership , which caused the reputation of the Emden NSDAP to suffer. Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter Carl Röver therefore ordered Maas to be transferred to Delmenhorst in April 1937. Maas then served as captain of the reserve from August 22, 1939 to January 8, 1943 in the Wehrmacht and then continued his post as Mayor of Delmenhorst until May 23, 1945. That day he was removed from his post by the British military authorities .

With the decision of the main denazification committee of the city of Delmenhorst, Maas, who in retrospect always referred to his membership in the NSDAP as “a purely formal” one, was classified in category IVa (supporter of the National Socialists ) in 1949 , with the addition that he was allowed in no longer have a leading position in administration.

literature

• Peter Haupt: Maas, Hermann. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 431-432 ( online , PDF).