Arnold Siben

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Arnold Siben (born July 23, 1882 in Forst ; † August 31, 1957 ) was a Bavarian administrative officer and politician.

Life

Siben was born on July 23, 1882 in Forst, a neighboring town of Deidesheim . His father Johann Julius Siben was mayor of Deidesheim from 1895 to 1905, his mother was Augusta Siben nee. Kuhn. The Siben family ran a winery in Deidesheim, which is now called the Georg Siben Erben winery .

After studying law and philosophy at the universities in Bonn, Berlin, Heidelberg and Munich, he completed his doctorate in 1909 on the subject of "The judicial functions of the Federal Council". He was then a government assessor in the government of Upper Bavaria in Munich, and from 1911 to 1919 district assessor in Dillingen an der Donau . Siben was then assigned to the government of the Palatinate (Bavaria) in Speyer and was district administrator in Landau in the Palatinate until 1920 . From 1924 to 1933 he was also chairman of the Bavarian-Palatinate Center Party, which his father co-founded .

Because he was elected first mayor of the city by the Deidesheim city council, Siben resigned from civil service on May 1, 1920. The Center Party, the Liberals and the moderate bourgeois parties had agreed on Sibenik in Deidesheim. Siben held the mayor's office until after the Nazis came to power in 1933. On March 15 of this year, however, a crowd of people gathered in front of Siber's house , threatening to storm the house, and demanded his resignation. Siben complied with the request, but with reservation of his rights. But because the city of Deidesheim subsequently stopped paying wages, he changed the nature of his resignation from a conditional to a voluntary one and demanded pension payments from the city, which the now National Socialist city council rejected. Although even the Bavarian Interior Minister Adolf Wagner and Gauleiter Josef Bürckel pushed for an agreement, Deidesheim remained tough on the matter. Siben then sued the city of Deidesheim, and on June 4, 1935, the Frankenthal regional court ruled ; Deidesheim had to pay Siben and also had to bear six sevenths of the litigation costs.

After 1933, Siben looked after his winery, traveled a lot and wrote a few writings on local history. Siben died on August 31, 1957.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Georg Siben: Dr. jur. A. Siben . In: Heimatfreunde Deidesheim und Umgebung e. V. (Ed.): Deidesheimer Heimatblätter. Contributions to the history of the former prince-bishop's office in Speyer and today's Deidesheim association . No. 10 , 1993, p. 1 .
  2. ↑ Siben, Arnold. Catalog of the German National Library, accessed on June 11, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Stefan Ph. Wolf: Weimar Republic and "Third Reich" . In: Kurt Andermann, Berthold Schnabel (Ed.): Deidesheim - Contributions to the history and culture of a city in the wine country . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-0418-4 , p. 276-277, 285-287 .
personal data
SURNAME Siben, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Forest on the wine route
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1957