Adam Kaiser

Adam Kaiser (born April 23, 1900 in Hammelburg ; † December 10, 1987 ) was a German local politician ( CSU ).

Career

Kaiser was born as the eighth of ten children of the bookbinder Johann Kaiser and his wife Elisabeth. One of his brothers was the future Federal Minister Jakob Kaiser (1888–1961). He passed the exam to become a master bookbinder and took over his parents' business in Hammelburg in 1923. From 1920 he was a member of the Bavarian People's Party . After the National Socialists came to power, he was appointed councilor of the BVP in Hammelburg's NS city council from April to June 1933. After the BVP was banned in June 1933, Adam Kaiser was removed from office and briefly imprisoned. From 1939 to 1945 he did military service, most recently as chief paymaster. Because of his proximity to the resistance of July 20, 1944 , he was in prison in Berlin-Moabit from January to April 1945.

After the end of the war he was a co-founder of the CSU in Hammelburg. In January 1946 he was elected mayor of Hammelburg (until 1948) and in June 1948 by the district council of Hammelburg as district administrator . He remained in office until his retirement in 1970.

During his tenure, the Thulba Bridge near Hammelburg, which was destroyed in the war, and the Saale Bridge near Trimberg were rebuilt. The district's housing cooperative was founded and the district settlement was built on Westheimer Strasse in Hammelburg. The agricultural school and the district vocational school were expanded.

He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on May 14, 1965.

literature

• Barbara Fait, Alf Mintzel, Thomas Schlemmer: The CSU 1945 - 1948: Protocols 1945 - 1946 , Volume 1, Oldenbourg Verlag, 1993

Web links

• Commemorative address for Adam Kaiser on March 19, 1988