August Meier (politician)

August Meier (born April 4, 1885 in Gernsbach ; † 1976 ) was a German local politician ( SPD ). From 1919 to 1966 he was an honorary city councilor in Nuremberg with one interruption during the Nazi era .

Life and work

The trained carpenter was a union and SPD member before 1914. In 1919 he became managing director of the Nuremberg SPD newspaper Fränkische Tagespost and was a member of the city council in Nuremberg from 1919 to 1933. After the National Socialists came to power, he was placed in “protective custody” in the Dachau concentration camp . After his release he ran a small tobacco shop from June 1934. A group of resistance members formed around him, including Josef Simon , Richard Schramm and Lorenz Hagen . The group was loosely connected to the resistance movement of July 20, 1944 through Gustav Dahrendorf and Ernst Schneppenhorst .

After the end of the war, he took over the chairmanship of the SPD district association in Nuremberg in 1945 and was again a member of the city council from 1946 to 1966. In the years 1945–1947 he also held the office of chairman of the SPD district of Franconia. He contributed significantly to the rebuilding of the Franconian publishing house and the Franconian daily mail .

In 1965 Meier was made an honorary citizen in Nuremberg . Upon his death, he bequeathed an amount of 90,000 DM to the old people's home on Regensburger Strasse, which has had his name since 1992.

literature

Willy Albrecht, Die SPD under Kurt Schumacher and Erich Ollenhauer 1946 to 1963. Dietz, 2000
Hartmut Mehringer, The parties KPD, SPD, BVP in persecution and resistance, Volume 5 of Bavaria in the Nazi era, ed. by Martin Broszat , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1983, ISBN 3-48642401-7 , S, 428
Helmut Beer, Resistance to National Socialism in Nuremberg 1933-1945 , Volume 20, Verlag Stadtarchiv Nürnberg, 1976, ISBN 3-87432043-X , pp. 217, 298
Gert Rückel, The Fränkische Tagespost , contributions to the history and culture of the city of Nuremberg, Nuremberg City Library, 1964, p. 38

Individual evidence

↑ Short biography on the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung website
^ Honorary citizen of the city of Nuremberg . City of Nuremberg. 2009. Retrieved November 13, 2009.

personal data
SURNAME	Meier, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 4, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gernsbach
DATE OF DEATH	1976

[1] Short biography on the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung website

[2] Honorary citizen of the city of Nuremberg . City of Nuremberg. 2009. Retrieved November 13, 2009.