Adolf Dechert

Adolf Dechert (born February 3, 1875 in Neuruppin ; † December 8, 1958 ) was a German politician.

Life

Dechert was Protestant. After attending a secondary school in Berlin, Dechert studied at the technical colleges in Mittweida and Neustadt and graduated as an engineer. From 1910 Dechert was a city councilor in Oranienburg, later he became an unpaid city councilor in Oranienburg. He was a member of the DDP . Until 1933 he was a member of the Niederbarnim district committee.

As a declared opponent of the Nazi regime, Adolf Dechert was briefly appointed first mayor of the city of Oranienburg after the end of World War II in May 1945 . He was one of the founding members of the CDU in Oranienburg. In October 1946 Dechert was elected member of the Brandenburg state parliament and in June 1948 the mayor of Oranienburg. On February 28, 1949, he was briefly arrested by the Soviet occupying forces and removed from his position as mayor. He was forced to resign from all public office in February 1950. His publicly expressed expectation that the Soviet military administration would dissolve the Sachsenhausen internment camp had led to abusive posters in Oranienburg such as "The war instigator and Soviet enemy Dechert", to physical threats and brief arrest.

After the collapse of the GDR, a street in Oranienburg was named after Dechert.

literature

• Herrmann AL Degener : Who is who? , Berlin 1951, p. 97.

Web links

• Website of the city of Oranienburg: History of the city of Oranienburg: List of mayors since 1567 (PDF file; 147 kB)