Bruno Kreuter

As the fortress commander of Antwerp (1914/18)

Bruno Kreuter (born April 19, 1871 in Leitmeritz ; † June 27, 1938 ) was the first mayor of Rosenheim with legal knowledge during a politically difficult time, during the revolution of 1918/19 and the beginning of the global economic crisis in 1929.

biography

Bruno Kreuter was born in the Bohemian town of Leitmeritz in 1871 (today Litoměřice in the Czech Republic). After completing his one-year military service with the infantry body regiment, he studied law in Munich. After receiving his doctorate, he worked as an in-house counsel at Steinbeis until 1914 . "In August 1914, Kreuter moved in as a captain and in the last year of the war he was active as a training officer of the 6th Bavarian Infantry Division on the home front to maintain the enthusiasm for the war". He was married to Ida Kreuter geb. Lehr (1877-1972). Ida Kreuter is the daughter of Julius Lehr (forest scientist and national economist) and the sister of Albert Lehr (architect).

After the end of the war, Kreuter, described as a “pragmatic monarchist”, was one of the founding members of the Rosenheim branch of the Bavarian People's Party . He worked there as a lawyer. As a member of the resident army he took part in the suppression of the Soviet republic in Kolbermoor . On May 5, 1919, he became local commander there.

In the course of the municipal elections of June 15, 1919, Georg Knorr, the candidate of the civil economic association, rejected his election as mayor. As a result, the bourgeois city council group appointed Bruno Kreuter as executive second mayor on June 29th. On December 14th, Kreuter was elected to the post of legally qualified First Mayor, which he took up on January 1st, 1920. “His term of office was overshadowed by the burdens following the war, such as devaluation and shortage of money, housing shortages and unemployment, as well as, in particular, the more and more burdensome municipal welfare services, which are increasingly burdening the city budget”.

During his time as mayor, despite the difficult economic situation, the construction of flood protection structures on the Inn, the paving of the Innstrasse and the continuation and expansion of existing streets, the expansion of the sewerage and water supply network, the modernization and the expansion and reconstruction of the Hospital, the electricity and gas works and the slaughterhouse, the construction of the cattle shed and, as far as possible, urban housing. In addition, the secondary school was expanded to become an upper secondary school, the wood technical center was founded, the war memorial was erected on the Loreto meadow, the town hall was rebuilt and the Riedergarten opened to the public.

Decisive for the end of his term of office was the bankruptcy of the Rosenheim small house building association in 1929. Walter Leicht wrote: “The bourgeois economic party had Bruno Kreuter, taking into account personal interests, a loan of 188,000 to this association in the city council against the votes of the mayor, his speakers and the left-wing parties Mark procured, and now made Kreuter the scapegoat for the loss of these funds. After his service contract expired on December 31, 1929, the city council rewrote the position of mayor of Rosenheim in the summer of 1929. Although the opposition SPD parliamentary group had spoken out in favor of Kreuter's re-election, he was dropped by his party friends and did not even make it into the runoff election in the city council on August 30 with only five votes. "

The successor of Dr. Bruno Kreuter became the previous Mayor of Forchheim, Dr. Hans Knorr, who prevailed against the Rosenheim legal advisor Weinberger in the second ballot.

Emergency money from the city of Rosenheim with the signature of Bruno Kreuter (partial view, 1921)

Works

• Bruno Kreuter: The KB Landwehr Infantry Regiment, No. 1: Depicted according to the official war diaries. No. 1, Verlag M. Schick, 1934

Web links

Commons : Bruno Kreuter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Walter Leicht: Bruno Kreuter . Stadtarchiv Rosenheim, primary source: Oberbayerisches Volksblatt , June 27, 1988. Last accessed March 24, 2018.
2. ↑ Family Documents