Albert Herrmann (politician)

Albert Herrmann (born February 28, 1892 in Strasbourg ; † April 23, 1977 in Karlsruhe ) was a Baden administrative lawyer and local politician , most recently as Lord Mayor of Konstanz from 1933 to 1945 during the National Socialist era .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1910 at the Protestant (old-language) grammar school in Strasbourg, he did his military service. He then studied in Strasbourg, Berlin and Kiel law . In 1911 in Strasbourg he became a member of the Arminia fraternity .

With the beginning of the First World War in August 1914 he was drafted into an artillery unit on the western front. In January 1915 there was a short leave of absence to take the first state legal examination (legal trainee examination). In mid-1915 the artillery officer Herrmann, who had meanwhile been promoted to lieutenant, volunteered for the air force, with whom he remained until the end of the war.

After his legal clerkship in 1921, he was taken on as a civil servant in the Baden Ministry of the Interior in Karlsruhe. From 1922 he switched to a civil service and was legal advisor at the city administration of Karlsruhe; from 1927 senior legal advisor and head of the municipal legal office. In February 1932 he became mayor of the city of Durlach . On March 21, 1933, he was restricted and supervised by two NS commissioners appointed by the Baden Minister of the Interior in the exercise of office; after his complaint to the Nazi Gauleiter and Reich Governor Robert Wagner he was offered the vacant OB post in Constance; initially provisional, because according to the Baden municipal code, the election by the Constance Citizens' Committee is still required. Herrmann asked for a time to think about it, but said yes after a few days. On May 6, 1933, he was provisionally appointed acting Lord Mayor of Konstanz. On May 26, 1933, the Constance Citizens' Committee unanimously elected Albert Herrmann as Lord Mayor and successor to Otto Moericke . The member of the NSDAP Leopold Mager was appointed mayor. Albert Herrmann was previously independent, but joined the NSDAP on June 1, 1933.

Herrmann and Mager decided on "measures to improve individual life prospects", which included the creation of jobs, the promotion of sports, home building, the traffic situation and the construction of swimming pools. On October 20, 1934, they opened the renovation and modernization of the city theater with the premiere of the play "Der Sieger" by Albert Forster. In the same year the decision was made to build the first modern indoor swimming pool by the lake, the spa and indoor swimming pool. On October 20, 1935, the newly built Konstanz “Bodensee-Kampfbahn” was opened for 32,000 spectators with a football match between FC Schalke 04 and FC Lausanne-Sport . With the expansion of the road traffic of the "Horst-Wessel Bridge", today the Old Rhine Bridge , with a railway underpass and doubling of the lanes, the old star district, today's star square, disappeared.

At the beginning of the Second World War , Herrmann was drafted into military service in the German Wehrmacht / Air Force; last rank from 1944 major. Mayor Leopold Mager ran the official business of the Konstanz city administration throughout the war. The term of office lasts until 1945. At the end of the Second World War, Herrmann was dismissed from the post of OB by the French military administration. Josef Benz succeeded Herrmann on May 12, 1945.

In 1950 he was admitted to the bar.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 . Pp. 457-458.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} “Ideologie aus Stein” , Südkurier, January 4th, 2008
2. ↑ "Chronicle of the City of Konstanz" , Alt-Konstanz.de

predecessor	Office	successor
Otto Moericke	Mayor of Konstanz 1933 - 1945	Josef Benz