Adolf Maier (lawyer)

Adolf Maier (born May 11, 1871 in Tremessen ; † October 17, 1963 in Oberstdorf ) was a German lawyer and Prussian politician.

Life

Adolf Maier was born in Tremessen in the province of Posen in 1871 . After studying law and obtaining a doctorate as a Dr. jur. he worked as a court assessor . From 1910 to 1919 he was mayor of Charlottenburg .

During the Weimar Republic he was a member of the DDP .

After Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell's resignation , which he declared in protest against the revolutionary changes in Prussia in March 1919 in front of the provincial parliament , Adolf Maier was appointed by the Prussian state government to the position of Supreme President of the Province of Brandenburg . He remained in this post from April 1919 until he was replaced by an NSDAP man on March 25, 1933.

literature

• Ingo Materna , Wolfgang Ribbe (ed.): Brandenburg history. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002508-5 .

Web links

Entry at territorial.de

annotation

1. ↑ Deviating from the usual information, Maier is assigned to the DVP in a list by the Interior Ministry in 1929 , cf. Horst Möller: The Prussian presidents of the Weimar Republic as the administrative elite. In: Klaus Schwabe (ed.): The Prussian Oberpräsident 1815–1945 (= German leadership classes in the modern age. Vol. 15 = Büdinger research on social history. 1981). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1985, ISBN 3-7646-1857-4 , p. 198, note 35.