Adolf Hartmeyer

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Adolf Hartmeyer (born August 4, 1886 in Tübingen ; † February 13, 1953 there ) was a German SPD politician and Lord Mayor of Tübingen from 1946 to 1948.

Grave of Adolf Hartmeyer in the Tübingen city cemetery .

Hartmeyer was the son of a wine grower and street sweeper. The family originally came from Switzerland.

Hartmeyer was also a member of the municipal council, member of the state parliament for Württemberg-Hohenzollern , member of the advisory state assembly of the state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern , member of the district council and district council, member of the administrative board of the Tübingen district association, member of the management board and administrative board of the Württemberg savings banks and giro association and member of the administrative board of Kreissparkasse Tübingen.

Hartmeyer sent his son Kristian (Hans Jakob Christian Hartmeyer) to the Tübingen Free Waldorf School and made a decisive contribution to this in the city council: He provided the growing school with a leasehold land that was cheap in terms of traffic in the Tübingen Wilhelmstrasse. 63, on which, after six months of construction from 1949 to 1950, the first simple but friendly schoolhouse could be built - initially without central heating and without double windows.

In the first free local elections after the Second World War, Hartmeyer was confirmed as Lord Mayor by 91% of Tübingen voters - with an unusually high turnout of 81%.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Comrade Don Capelli - The left printer Hans Jakob Kristian Hartmeyer has died , "Schwäbisches Tagblatt", February 16, 2008.
  2. ^ "Die Zeit", 1953/09, chronicle.
  3. ↑ Johannes Schmidt: From the roots of a free school
  4. ^ Karl Moersch and Reinhold Weber: The time after the war: Cities in Reconstruction , Stuttgart, 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-019724-4 , p. 380.
personal data
SURNAME Hartmeyer, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the State Parliament, Lord Mayor of Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1953
Place of death Tübingen