Arend Braye

Arend Heinrich Braye (born November 3, 1890 in Grüppenbühren , Oldenburg; † August 23, 1960 in Haltingen ) was a German trade unionist, politician, member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg , from January 1, 1949 mayor and from 1957 to 1960 mayor of Loerrach .

Life

Braye was born in Grüppenbühren on November 3, 1890, at the age of three he became an orphan. From 1905 to 1908 he trained as a locksmith in Karlsruhe and did his military service from 1910 to 1912. In 1913/14 he worked as a locomotive heater in Haltingen and served as a soldier during the First World War until 1918. After serving in the war and being imprisoned by Russia, he returned to Germany and worked as a locksmith again for two years. From 1919 to 1933 he was managing director or authorized representative of the local group Lörrach-Basel of the free trade union unity of railway workers in Germany (EdED).

Braye was from 1919 to 1925 and from 1927 to 1933 mayor of Haltingen's municipal council. In 1920 Braye married.

After the " seizure of power " by the NSDAP and the smashing of the trade unions, Braye became unemployed in August 1933. In the following years he managed to get by with various activities, including as a warehouse manager. As a result of the “ Aktion Gewitter ” after the failed Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , Braye was arrested and imprisoned in the Natzweiler and Dachau concentration camps (from September 4, 1944 to September 24, 1944).

After the end of the Second World War in 1945 he returned to Haltingen and was reinstated as mayor of Haltingen by the French occupying forces in July of the same year. He held this office until 1948. On December 5, 1948, Arend Braye was elected Mayor of Lörrach and re-elected on December 1, 1957 for a further twelve years. During his term of office the reconstruction of the city, the integration of the refugee flows, the social housing, the construction of the hospital as well as the Schweitzer school and the construction of the Hebel-Gymnasium fall . Braye's successor as Lord Mayor was Egon Hugenschmidt .

At the same time, Braye was a member of the first Baden state parliament from 1947 as a member of the SPD and remained a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament for the first and second electoral periods until 1960 . On the morning of August 23, 1960, Braye died of a heart attack. After his death, a street on the Salzert was named after him.

literature

• Paul Feuchte: Sources on the creation of the constitution of the state of Baden from 1947. In: Publications on the constitutional history of Baden-Württemberg since 1945. Volume 15, No. 1, 1999, ISBN 3-17-015059-6 .
• Gerhard Moehring : Bailiffs and Mayor of Lörrach. In: Walter Jung, Gerhard Moehring (ed.): Our Lörrach 1975. A border town in the mirror of the times. Kropf & Herz, Lörrach-Tumringen 1975, pages 34/35.
• Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz : Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 7). Metropol, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-353-1 , pp. 419-420 (short biography).
• Otto Wittmann et al., City of Lörrach (Hrsg.): Lörrach: Landscape - History - Culture . Verlag Stadt Lörrach, Lörrach 1983, ISBN 3-9800841-0-8 , pages 478-479.

Web links

• Mayor Arend Braye died 50 years ago - press release from the city of Loerrach on August 20, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sabine Ehrentreich: Ara of Reconstruction , Badische Zeitung on October 23, 1992
2. ↑ Hubert Bernnat: 125 years labor movement in the border region. Lörrach 1993, page 113 and Siegfried Mielke, Stefan Heinz: Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) , Berlin 2017, page 419
3. ↑ Hubert Bernnat: 125 years labor movement in the border region. Lörrach 1993, page 208 and Siegfried Mielke, Stefan Heinz: Railway trade unionists in the Nazi state. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration (1933–1945) , Berlin 2017, page 419