Carl Neinhaus

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Honorary grave of the city of Heidelberg for its former mayor Carl Neinhaus on the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof , (Lit.Q 31)

Carl Georg Hermann Neinhaus (born March 20, 1888 in Hochemmerich , today in Duisburg , † November 13, 1965 in Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer and politician ( NSDAP , CDU ).

Life

After graduating from high school, Neinhaus studied law and economics in Heidelberg and Bonn , and received his doctorate. jur. and then entered the administrative service. In Bonn he became a member of the Alemannia fraternity in 1905/06 . 1920 he was Assistant Secretary in Barmen and 1928 by 93 votes to 12 for mayor elected by Heidelberg. After he became a member of the NSDAP in May 1933, he remained Lord Mayor of Heidelberg until 1945. During the time of National Socialism he was a member of the welfare committees of the German Municipal Association .

After the end of World War II he was deposed as Lord Mayor by the American military government . From 1945 to 1958 he lived in a house on the Heidelberg Kohlhof .

Neinhaus joined the CDU, became a member of the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden in 1950 and a member of the Baden-Württemberg parliament in 1952 . In April 1952 he was elected president of the state constituent assembly and the following state parliaments of Baden-Württemberg . He also held office as Lord Mayor of Heidelberg from 1952 to 1958. In 1960 he renounced a new candidacy in the state elections. His successor in the office of President of the State Parliament was the Christian Democrat Franz Gurk .

Nohaus, who was also a member of the Presidium of the German Association of Cities , was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the honorary citizenship of the city of Heidelberg.

Carl Neinhaus found his final resting place in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof in a grave of honor in the city of Heidelberg . The grave site is adorned by a “broad-layered shell limestone with a simple Latin cross”.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 188-190.
  • Horst Ferdinand: Carl Neinhaus (1888–1965). Aspects of a Controversial Biography. Self-published, St. Augustin 2002, ISBN 3-00-009365-6 ( Review by Helmut Joho, Feb. 2003 at zum.de)
  • Frank Moraw:  No house, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 48 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Fritz Quoos: Carl Neinhaus - a controversial mayor and politician. In Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , Heidelberg, 2007: 174: 5 (Heidelberger Nachrichten) from July 31, 2007. (About the municipal graves of honor in the Bergfriedhof , episode 10. Subtitle: His career began in the Weimar Republic - he survived the Nazi state and reached its zenith after the war)

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Individual evidence

  1. Willy Nolte : Fraternity members regular role. Berlin 1934, p. 347.
  2. a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 431.
  3. Leena Ruuskanen: The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof through the ages (the design for the tomb commissioned by the city of Heidelberg was created by the sculptor Werner Horlbeck). Edition Gunderjahn, p. 69.