Carl Grevsmuehl

Carl Grevsmühl (born January 19, 1878 in Eutin , † March 7, 1934 in Hamburg ) was a German judicial officer , civil servant, trade unionist and politician .

Life

Grevsmühl joined the Hamburg civil service as an assistant clerk in 1897 and was promoted to government councilor in the shipping and trade deputation until 1928 . In 1907 he joined the office officials 'association and, after the First World War, was a leader in the merger of the various civil servants ' unions to form the German Association of Civil Servants (DBB). In 1924 he was elected chairman of the Hamburg DBB and held this position until he was dismissed by the National Socialists in 1933.

Since 1913 he belonged to the Hamburg citizenship , first as a member of the "Fraction of the Right" (until 1918), then until 1931 of the German People's Party and in 1932/33 again briefly as a member of the German State Party . From 1928 to 1931 he was Vice President of the City Council. One of his particular successes was the establishment of the Hamburg Administrative Academy in 1926, which he took over as honorary managing director.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Grevsmühl not only lost the chairmanship of the Hamburg DBB, but was also forced into retirement shortly before his death due to the law to restore the civil service .

literature

• Uwe Schmidt: Grevsmühl, Carl . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 157-158 .
• Uwe Schmidt, Helmut Stubbe da Luz : The officials and trade unionists: Karl Raue, Carl Grevsmühl, Christian Koch. (Hamburgische Lebensbilder, Volume 14) Bremen 2007, ISBN 3-86108-376-0 .

source

• Directory of members of the Hamburg Parliament from 1859 to 1959 - short biographies. Compiled and edited by Franz Th. Mönckeberg. Hardcover typewriter manuscript, No. 531.