Lothar Danner

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Lothar Adolf Carl Danner (born April 22, 1891 in Schöneberg , then located in the Teltow district , † February 2, 1960 in Hamburg ) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

Danner put 1909 in Cologne the High School , and then the track struck a professional soldier. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, where he suffered severe war injuries and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class.

At the end of March 1919, Danner resigned from the German army as a general staff officer, immediately switched to the Hamburg police service and became a member of the SPD in the same year. As a police officer he held high positions in the Hamburg state police during the Weimar Republic : after commanding the Hamburg police force, he became chief of staff of the security services in March 1920 and switched to the regulatory police in early July 1920. From October 23, 1923, on the day the Hamburg uprising began , he was in charge of the regulatory police as a lieutenant colonel. Danner was promoted to police colonel in early July 1924 and remained chief of the Hamburg regulatory police until early March 1933.

Until 1933 "Colonel Danner", as he was mostly called in the trade press, also played a role as a sports official . He was chairman of the SVgg until March 6, 1933 . Police in Hamburg and in 1928 was one of the three signatories of a letter to the NFV district of Greater Hamburg , which triggered the so-called football revolution . Shortly before his release from the police force, he publicly warned of the disadvantages that could be expected for those clubs that did not offer "military sport".

After the takeover of the Nazis , he was in the course of the professional civil service law laid off in the spring 1933rd He then worked for Arnold Otto Meyer , a Hamburg trading company. His application for membership in the Waffen SS , made in 1942, was not granted . During the Second World War , from October 1942 to the end of December 1943, he was in charge of a department at the Office for Military Operations.

post war period

Gravestone for Lothar Danner, Ohlsdorf cemetery

On May 3, 1945, he led Brigadier General Douglas Spurling with the 7th British Panzer Division as a local expert from the south over the Elbe bridges to Hamburg, where he attended the handover of the city by Karl Kaufmann in the Hamburg City Hall . The British occupation forces subsequently commissioned Danner to rebuild a democratic police force until he was replaced in this position by Bruno Georges on May 26, 1945 .

Then he was President of the Hamburg Transport Office until the end of November 1950 and founded the Association for Non-Alcoholic Traffic on May 25, 1950 .

After he was previously the State Councilor for police matters, the responsible senator was the First Mayor Max Brauer himself, Danner was elected to the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg on January 1, 1951 , which sent him to the newly created police authority as President . After the election victory of the bourgeois Hamburg bloc in 1953, Danner left office.

From May 1954, when he replaced Walter Dudek , Danner was a member of the Hamburg parliament until his death .

At Planquadrat K 6 ( Bergstrasse , opposite the cemetery museum) at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg there is a brick tombstone with a terracotta sculpture for Lothar Danner and his family.

Honors

  • In memory of Danner, the Association against Alcohol and Drugs in Road Traffic has been awarding the Senator Lothar Danner Medal every year since 1975 for services to road safety.

Publications

  • Ordnungspolizei Hamburg - reflections on its history 1918–1933 , Verlag Deutsche Polizei, 1958.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Franklin Kopitzsch and Dirk Brietzke (eds.): Hamburgische Biografie-Personenlexikon , Volume 2, Hamburg 2003, p. 96f.
  2. ^ Hanseatische Sport-Zeitung , debate in successive issues from February 1933
personal data
SURNAME Danner, Lothar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danner, Lothar Adolf Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Schöneberg
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1960
Place of death Hamburg