Carl Engelbert Böhmer

Carl Engelbert Böhmer (also Carl Egbert Böhmer ) (born February 15, 1884 in Essen-Schonnebeck , † November 12, 1960 in Bad Salzuflen ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ). From 1933 to 1945 he was Lord Mayor of Gelsenkirchen .

Life

Carl Böhmer was the son of a brewery director. He attended elementary school, the private rectorate school, the secondary school and two semesters each of the municipal business school and a private foreign language school. After a commercial apprenticeship, Böhmer worked for the Bochum miners' administration . He then worked in the commercial departments of collieries. During the First World War he was a soldier from August 1916 to May 1918 (Landsturm with weapon at Res.Inf.Reg. 29).

Böhmer became a member of the NSDAP in 1928 and held various party offices. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists in Germany, he was at the instigation of the Nazi Gauleiter of Northern Westphalia , Alfred Meyer , from 7 April 1933, state commissioner appointed for the city of Gelsenkirchen, then from 21 July Acting Mayor. On September 27, 1933, the introduction to the office of Lord Mayor was completed. He exercised this office during the entire period of National Socialist rule and the Second World War . When the Gelsenkirchen synagogue was destroyed during his tenure, Boehmer's involvement was later considered proven.

In April 1933 he was also briefly a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia , the Provincial Committee and the Prussian State Council .

After the German defeat in 1945, he was imprisoned in an internment camp by the British military government until April 1, 1947 . As part of his denazification on April 1, 1947, he was only classified in the category of “ fellow travelers ” and thus as an “easier case”, with no loss of pension rights. On May 18, 1948, the result was tightened to "less burdened", and on December 1, 1950, it was finally reduced to followers. The city of Gelsenkirchen nevertheless refused to pay Böhmer his pension ; they had to be foreclosed every month until his death. After many years of civil and administrative litigation, the Federal Administrative Court ruled on February 11, 1960 in the final instance in favor of Gunstens Böhmer.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the state councilors appointed in the “Third Reich”. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties , Volume 13.) Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 978-3-7700-5271-4 , page 16.
• Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 197.

Web links

• About Carl Böhmer. Internet portal "Westphalian history" of the regional association Westphalia-Lippe (LWL).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} governor Rally in Gelsenkirchen . From: Gelsenkirchen - A foray through 125 years of city history, Heinz-Jürgen Priamus, Holger German, Norbert Silberbach, Wartberg, 2000
2. ↑ Gelsenkirchen's Lord Mayor during the Nazi era . From: Gelsenkirchen under National Socialism: Catalog for the permanent exhibition of the Gelsenkirchen Documentation Center (series of publications by the Institute for City History (ISG) - materials, vol. 5), 1st edition, November 2000