Curt Boehme

This article deals with the politician Curt Böhme. For other people see under Kurt Böhme .

Curt Böhme (right) in conversation with Walter Ulbricht on the sidelines of the 5th party congress of the SED, 1958

Curt Böhme (born July 17, 1889 in Sayda , Erzgebirge, † December 23, 1968 in Gera ) was a German politician ( SPD , later SED ) and Lord Mayor of Gera from 1948 to 1956.

Life

The son of a saddler completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic in Freiberg , then went on a hike and was employed by Carl Zeiss in Jena . He was politically active at an early stage; At Easter 1916 he and Karl Liebknecht organized the “Easter Conference of Young People” in Jena.

As a guest student at the University of Jena , he acquired knowledge of law and economics after the First World War. In 1923 he became head of department in the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior, and from 1924 to 1931 he represented the SPD in the Thuringian state parliament . From 1925 to 1931 he was mayor of Allstedt (Thuringia) and from 1931 to 1933 he was the mayor of Lohbrügge near Hamburg.

In 1944 Böhme was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp , where he witnessed the liberation of the camp on April 11, 1945. He was one of the co-signers of the Buchenwald Manifesto .

From 1945 he held various functions in the Thuringian state administration and in 1946 was significantly involved in the unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED . On September 9, 1948, the city council elected him to succeed Friedrich Bloch as the first SED Lord Mayor of Gera. During his term of office, the founding of the GDR in 1949 and the dissolution of the state of Thuringia in 1952, whereby Gera became the district town of the Gera district . In 1950 twelve municipalities, including the city of Langenberg , were incorporated into Gera, which increased their population to almost 100,000.

On December 19, 1956, Curt Böhme was adopted by the city council as mayor and at the same time - as the first person after 1945 - was made an honorary citizen of the city of Gera. His successor was Otto Assmann . In 1959 he received the German Peace Medal . In 1964 Curt Böhme was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

Posthumous honors

On January 7, 1987, a street in the Bieblach-Ost development area in Gera was named Curt-Böhme-Straße . In 1978, the then newly opened 25th POS (Polytechnic High School) in the Gera-Lusan district was given the name "Curt Böhme" in memory and as a tribute to the former mayor of Gera. In 1991 the school became elementary school 6 and was named Wilhelm Busch in 1997 .

literature

• Günter Domkowsky: Lord Mayor of the City of Gera. Frank, Gera 2007. ISBN 978-3-934805-31-6 .
• Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Böhme, Curt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Kurt Böhme , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 36/1946 of August 26, 1946, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , August 15, 1964, p. 2
2. ^ Siegfried Mues: The street names of the city of Gera from A to Z. Their history and stories. Publishing house Dr. Frank, Gera 2006, ISBN 3-934805-23-X , p. 76.
3. ↑ http://www.gs-wilhelmbusch-gera.de/unsere-schule/wilhelm-busch/