Adam Selbert

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Adam Selbert (born May 16, 1893 in Gemünden , † May 17, 1965 in Kassel ) was a German civil servant and politician .

Career until 1933

Adam Selbert grew up in Mainz . At the age of 14 he moved to live with an aunt in Niederzwehren to do an apprenticeship as a printer in Kassel . After completing his apprenticeship, he worked as a typesetter for the Mainzer Anzeiger , and later as a political editor for a newspaper in Worms . In 1913 he became a member of the SPD and was elected as the youngest member of the municipal and provincial parliament of Hessen-Nassau . During the First World War he was drafted as a soldier. During the November revolution 1918/1919 he was first a member and then chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Niederzwehren. From 1922 he was secretary in Niederzwehren, later senior secretary for social issues in the community. He became an alderman, deputy mayor from 1930 to 1933 and a member of the district committee of the Kassel district .

In 1920 Adam Selbert married Elisabeth Rohde , who was three years his junior and whom he had met while serving on the workers 'and soldiers' council. Both of them were politically active throughout their married life, and Adam Selbert encouraged his wife to catch up with high school and study law . The couple had two sons, born in 1921 and 1922. When his wife began her studies in 1926, he and his in-laws took care of the children and the household. He was of the opinion that his wife would get ahead in politics because of her better education, while he himself, as his wife later said, was a local politician with heart and soul. Elisabeth Selbert described the partnership with her husband as a "marriage of inclination". She made the political career her husband wanted her to have and went down in history as one of the mothers of the Basic Law .

Adam Selbert's future daughter-in-law Ruth Selbert, herself a member of the city council of Kassel for many years, described him as a kind, humorous person who appreciated "when someone parried him with a joke".

time of the nationalsocialism

The common grave of Adam and Elisabeth Selbert in Niederzwehren

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in January 1933, Selbert was removed from his offices "under police violence". Against this dismissal, which took place before the law to restore the civil service came into force on April 7, 1933, he resolutely defended himself. He appealed against this several times to the district president in Kassel. In order to be able to work independently in the municipality, he resigned from his party political offices in 1930. In June 1933 he was imprisoned for four weeks in the Breitenau concentration camp as a " protective prisoner ", together with other mayors from the area. The consequence of this imprisonment was severe diabetes . On December 11, 1933 he was finally dismissed by the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and his salary was reduced from 4,200 Reichsmarks to a pension of 1,200 Reichsmarks annually. He remained unemployed until 1945 and the family was supported by the income of his wife, who worked as a lawyer.

Later years

After 1945 Adam Selbert got involved again in local politics. He was appointed regional councilor by the State Welfare Association of Hesse ; he was the head of the human resources department and at times deputy to the governor. Selbert died in 1965, his wife survived him by over 20 years. The couple is buried together in a grave in the cemetery in Niederzwehren.

Honors

Selbert was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class . In Niederzwehren, today a district of Kassel, a street was named after him.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e Dietfrid Krause-Vilmar : New documents on the political persecution of Adam Selbert. (No longer available online.) Breitenau Memorial , archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on September 6, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gedenkstaette-breitenau.de
  2. ↑ LeMO inventory: Elisabeth Selbert. In: Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic. Retrieved September 6, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Rebecca Mae Salokar: Women in Law. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-29410-5 , p. 289 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ a b Cornelia Maier: Human rights as women's rights and women's rights as human rights. diplom.de, ISBN 978-3-832-45358-9 , p. 12 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ Heike Drummer, Jutta Zwilling:  Selbert, née Rohde, Martha Elisabeth. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 210 f. ( Digitized version ).
  6. ↑ 25th anniversary of the death of Elisabeth Selbert. In: City of Kassel. June 9, 2011, accessed September 6, 2015 .
  7. ^ Cemeteries in Kassel. (No longer available online.) In: Friedhofsverwaltung Kassel. Archived from the original on October 7, 2013 ; accessed on September 6, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.friedhofsverwaltung-kassel.de
  8. ^ Foundation Central Institute and Museum for Sepulchral Culture (Ed .; edited by Joachim Diefenbach and Dagmar Kuhle): City history in life stories. The honor graves of the city of Kassel. Biographies - portraits - graves. ; Working group Cemetery u. Monument, Kassel 2013, ISBN 9783924447526
personal data
SURNAME Selbert, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Gemünden
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1965
Place of death kassel