Alfred Stamer

Alfred Stamer (born November 8, 1887 in Hamburg , † April 23, 1966 in Reinbek ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

The son of a worker attended elementary school and worked as a factory, earthwork and construction worker until 1912. From February 1912 to 1919 he was employed by the community workers' association in Berlin , interrupted from 1914 to 1918 by his participation in the First World War , from which he returned home as a war disabled. From 1919 to March 1921 he was Gauleiter of the East Prussian Community Workers' Association in Königsberg , from July 1921 to September 1922 Gauleiter of the Reich Association of War Participants and War Disabled for East Prussia, based in Königsberg.

Stamer joined the SPD in 1906. In February 1921 he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament, to which he was a member until 1924. In parliament he represented constituency 1 (East Prussia).

From October 1922 he held the office of full-time mayor of the seaside town of Pillau , which he had taken over on a provisional basis at the beginning of July 1922.

After the National Socialists came to power , Stamer was deposed as mayor of Pillau. His pension entitlement expired. He was taken into " protective custody " twice, from February 6 to 7 and from April 18 to 20, 1933 . On August 12, 1933, under the supervision of Karl Lühr, local group leader of the NSDAP in Pillau, he was mistreated by men of the SA during a search . Two days later he was sent to the Kuhlen concentration camp near Rickling . In connection with the liquidation of the concentration camp, he was released from prison on October 26, 1933. Stamer had to leave Pillau under pressure from the National Socialists and relocated to Hamburg. From 1936 to 1937 he worked as an earthworker at the Öjendorf cemetery . He then worked as a woodworker and later as a warehouse foreman at a Hamburg company. Up until the end of the Second World War , the Gestapo imprisoned him twice for a short time.

From 1945 Stamer worked on the re-establishment of the SPD in Wilhelmsburg . In August 1946 he became head of the Hamburg city administration.

literature

• Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Issue for the 1st electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1921, p. 307.
• Christel Oldenburg (arr.): For freedom and democracy. Hamburg Social Democrats in Persecution and Resistance 1933–1945 . SPD Hamburg, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0637-4 , p. 411.

Web links

• Alfred Stamer's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Alfred Stamer at www.spurensuche-kreis-pinneberg.de