Adolf Gremmelspacher

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Adolf Gremmelspacher (born March 20, 1889 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † August 4, 1975 there ) was a German lawyer and local politician.

Career

Gremmelspacher was born as the son of the foreman Josef Gremmelspacher. He attended the humanistic grammar school in Freiburg and studied law and economics at the universities of Freiburg and Heidelberg . In 1913 he passed the 1st state examination and in 1919 the 2nd state examination. He then worked as a company lawyer at the Freiburg timber trading company Gebr. Himmelsbach .

The municipal council of the city of Villingen in the Black Forest elected him on July 28, 1926 as mayor (councilor), the introduction to his office took place on August 9, 1926. On February 9, 1931 he was elected mayor. After the National Socialists came to power, he was given leave of absence on June 14, 1933 and removed from his post on July 1, 1933.

Politically unaffected, he was chairman of the cleaning commission in the area of ​​the Baden Ministry of Labor from the end of 1945 and from July 14, 1947 adviser, later head of the state commissioner for political cleansing. From February 1951, Gremmelspacher was entrusted with handling the authority. After Gremmelspacher resigned from his office on October 1, 1952, an information center for political cleansing was set up at the Freiburg Regional Council as a successor and ceased operations on December 31, 1952.

Since 1911 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Arminia Freiburg im Breisgau .

Honors

In 1952 he was awarded the Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Information from the Villingen-Schwenningen City Archives of July 23, 2013
  2. ↑ Kurt Hochstuhl: The protocols of the government of Baden: Die Landesverwaltung Baden and the Staatssekretariat Wohleb, 1945-1947, W. Kohlhammer, 2006, p. Lxxi ( ISBN 978-3-17-019225-6 ; Google books )
  3. ^ A b Freiburg State Archives: Baden State Commissariat for Political Cleansing: Authority History
  4. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 4, No. 2, January 4, 1952.
personal data
SURNAME Gremmelspacher, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1975
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau