Alfred mistake

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Alfred Fehler (born July 26, 1879 in Görlitz , † August 13, 1945 there ) was the first Lord Mayor of Görlitz after the end of the Second World War . Before Freemasonry was banned by the National Socialists, he was a member of Görlitz's Masonic lodge, the Crowned Snake .

Life

Fehler was born in Görlitz in 1879 and grew up in the city too. On February 15, 1900, he passed the Abitur at Augustum and then began studying law and political science in Munich , Berlin and Breslau . On May 9, 1904, he passed his first legal exam at the Higher Regional Court in Breslau and worked there as a trainee lawyer until 1909. After completing the second legal exam, he was appointed Assessor General on May 15, 1909 . In 1910 he returned to Görlitz and was there Amtsgericht worked as assessor until 15 April 1914th With the beginning of the First World War he was called up to serve in the army. After the end of the war he was appointed to the city council and was the city's music representative. After Hitler and the National Socialists came to power , he was dismissed from office on July 31, 1939 and retired.

On May 10, 1945 - three days after the Red Army marched into Görlitz, the Soviet city commander Colonel Nesterow appointed him Lord Mayor of the city. Together with Johanna Dreyer , shortly after the end of the war, he organized a children's party in the town hall garden. It took place on May 20, 1945. Mistakes made themselves especially in the city ​​theater and the city musical life. Due to the poor supply situation, typhus and typhus broke out in the city . On August 13, 1945, at 66, he was one of the first to succumb to typhoid fever.

Alfred Fehler was buried in a family grave in the old city cemetery. In the Görlitz district of Rauschwalde , a street bears the name Fehler.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c sz-online.de: First post-war mayor died after a few days in office . Retrieved February 25, 2012 .
  2. ^ Hans Joachim Übersaer: Görlitz. 1945 1946 . Ed .: News Office of the City of Görlitz. Hoffmann & Reiber, Görlitz 1946, p. 7 .