Adam Chandler
Adam Krämer (born July 23, 1906 in Veprőd ( German Weprowatz ), Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † April 14, 1992 in Stuttgart -Zuffenhausen) was a German association official , lawyer and author .
Life
Krämer came from a farming family in the Batschka . First he attended the Hungarian high school in Baja , then the German high school in Vrbas . He passed his high school diploma in Serbo-Croatian in Srbobran . He studied law at the University of Zagreb and the Philipps University of Marburg and received his doctorate in Zagreb in 1930. Around 1932 he belonged, among others, with Josef Janko and Josef Trischler to the circle of renewers , a radical opposition within the Swabian-German Cultural Association , which was increasingly oriented towards National Socialism. Chandler served in three armies; that of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , the Royal Hungarian Army , and at the end of the Second World War still in a unit of the Wehrmacht .
Kramer co-founded the Association of German Students in Backa , legal advisor to the Nazi- aligned People's League of Germans in Hungary in Backa, after his expulsion from Yugoslavia Head of the Economic and Agriculture Ministry of Baden-Württemberg , co-founder and chairman (1962) of the Federation of Landsmannschaft the Danube Swabians and the state association of Danube Swabians in Baden-Württemberg . He was the main initiator of a sponsorship from the state of Baden-Württemberg through the Danube Swabian ethnic group and the sponsorships from the city of Sindelfingen through his Landsmannschaft and the Haus der Donauschwaben eV association . For a time he was a member of the city council in Stuttgart.
Honors
- 1976: Large Federal Cross of Merit
- On May 8, 1982 Adam Krämer was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit .
- On October 2, 2013, Adam-Krämer-Platz in the Rot district was named after him.
Publications
- Bridge over there: three times with compatriots overseas. Landsmannschaft der Donauschwaben, Stuttgart 1970
- The evacuation of the Batschka Germans in autumn 1944. In: Josef Volkmar Senz : An example of friendship and partnership. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Friedrich Binder and Friedrich Kühbauch , Sindelfingen 1986, 90–95.
- Weprowatz: 1786-1945; a village in the Batschka. Ed .: Photo book working group Weprowatz, in cooperation with the Weprowatz Home Committee, text editor Adam Krämer. G. Ditz, Herrenberg 1989
literature
- Dr. Adam Krämer on his 65th birthday: on July 23, 1971. Röhm, 1971
- Friedrich Kühbauch: Festschrift for Doctor Adam Krämer for his 80th birthday. Country team of the Danube Swabians in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1986
Web links
- Literature by and about Adam Krämer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Adam Chandler . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Casagrande: The Volksdeutsche SS Division "Prinz Eugen": the Banat Swabians and the National Socialists War Crimes Campus Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-593-37234-7 , p. 136
- ^ Heinz H. Poker: Chronicle of the City of Stuttgart 1991–1993 , Publications of the Archive of the City of Stuttgart, Klett-Kotta, Stuttgart 1995, ISSN 0934-8735 , p. 270
- ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, accessed on June 12, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chandler, Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German association official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Veprőd , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1992 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |