Arno Rauscher

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Rally of the Steuben Society in Potsdam (1930)

Arno Rauscher (* July 17, 1874 - May 15, 1950 ) was a Prussian administrative lawyer , State Councilor and Lord Mayor of Potsdam .

Life

Rauscher married Margarethe Thimm on June 19, 1903.

He was buried in the Bornstedter Friedhof in Potsdam.

Political activity

Rauscher was a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP). In November 1913 he was elected two mayors of Potsdam.

From April 1924 to March 1934, Rauscher was Lord Mayor of Potsdam. His predecessor in office was Kurt Vosberg , who had been elected to office in 1906. Vosberg resigned as mayor for social reasons, as he was getting a divorce. According to the view at the time, a divorce damaged credibility. Before being elected mayor, Rauscher made a name for himself as chairman of the Potsdam Art Association and as the initiator of the Potsdam Art Summer (1924–1927).

On November 8, 1927, Rauscher, " a man who could not be overlooked, almost two meters tall and" baroque in size ", laid the foundation stone for a forest Potsdam as a" home for the wealthy, the bourgeoisie and the middle class ".

On the occasion of a tour of Hindenburg von Sanssouci and the subsequent ceremony in Potsdam on March 21, 1933, in which Adolf Hitler took part as the new Chancellor of the Reich , Rauscher is said to have said: "We Potsdam were the godfathers of the cradle of the new Germany" . He was later ousted from this office by the National Socialist Hans Friedrichs . Several city councils were also replaced by NSDAP members. Rauscher's term of office would not have ended until 1936. Since the summer of 1933, Friedrichs, among others, had been working towards the replacement of Rauscher, as Rauscher, after initially looking hopeful, was no longer unconditionally devoted to the regime. After he had been urged to resign by the regional president Ernst Fromm at the turn of the year 1933/34, he took a “ longer vacation ” on January 9, 1934 and was retired on March 1, 1934.

Basically he was opposed to the Weimar Republic . As an opponent of the Prussian Interior Minister Carl Severing (SPD) in the flag dispute and as an experienced administrative lawyer, he enjoyed a high reputation, but as a former member of the DNVP, which was dissolved in July 1933, did not have the right party membership to be able to remain in office permanently. The decisive factor for Rauscher's premature replacement was the new Municipal Constitutional Act of December 15, 1933, which also introduced the so-called early principle at the municipal level , according to which no official - even if democratically elected - could remain in office without a NSDAP party membership .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arno Rauscher (1874–1950) Grave Site | BillionGraves. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .
  2. ^ Armin Hanson: Monument and Cityscape Maintenance in Potsdam 1918-1945 , p. 157.
  3. ^ Christiane Büchner: The city council of Potsdam in the course of time . Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86956-118-9 ( google.de [accessed on March 25, 2018]).
  4. ↑ By Erhart Hohenstein: Wald-Potsdams Ende . In: Potsdam's latest news . February 17, 2006 ( pnn.de [accessed March 25, 2018]).
  5. ^ Märkische Allgemeine, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany: Day of Potsdam: flags flutter like gunfire - tens of thousands of onlookers hoped for a better future. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Erhart Hohenstein: No role model . In: Potsdam's latest news . October 13, 2007 ( pnn.de [accessed March 25, 2018]).
  7. ^ Armin Hanson: Monument and cityscape maintenance in Potsdam 1918-1945 . Lukas Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-109-9 ( google.de [accessed on March 25, 2018]).
  8. ^ Armin Hanson: Monument and cityscape maintenance in Potsdam 1918-1945 . Lukas Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-109-9 ( google.de [accessed on March 25, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Rauscher, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative lawyer, State Councilor and Lord Mayor of Potsdam (1924–1933)
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1874
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1950