Kurt Täger

Kurt Täger (born March 16, 1879 in Kohlfurt , Upper Lusatia , † August 1, 1946 in Hannoversch Münden ) was a German administrative lawyer and municipal official. During the Weimar Republic he was Mayor of Wilhelmshaven and Lord Mayor of Herne.

Life

Täger came from an old Saxon hunter and forester family . His father Arthur Täger was chief forest manager and city ​​councilor in Görlitz . Curt Täger studied law at the University of Jena and became a member of the Corps Thuringia Jena in 1899 . He passed the state examination in 1906 and entered the service of the city of Luckenwalde in Brandenburg as a lawyer .

In 1910 he was elected city syndic by the Wilhelmshaven council and magistrate. In the First World War he was seriously wounded at the beginning. After the end of the war, in 1919, Wilhelmshaven was appointed Lord Mayor, and Täger was elected mayor as his deputy. In addition, he was responsible for the police system. Because of his actions during the hunger riots in the Jade Cities , he was exposed to severe criticism in 1920. However, one motion to vote out was denied and he remained in office until 1925. In retrospect, his measures have also proven to be correct.

In September 1925 he moved to the office of Lord Mayor of Herne in Westphalia. His greatest achievements in the following period were the acquisition of the Gysenberg site from Count Westerholt (noble family) and the subsequent incorporation of the Sodingen office into the Herne municipal association in 1927/28. This enabled the citizens of Herne to be given a city forest as a local recreation area. Today the famous Gysenberg Revierpark is located in this area . Täger's attempt to reform the school system in Herne failed due to the economic crisis . On April 3, 1933, the city ​​council, which was ruled by the National Socialist German Workers' Party , expressed mistrust. He was suspended by the district president , received no salary from May 1, 1933, and was retired on August 1, 1933 at his own request due to incapacity for work. He retired to Hannoversch Münden and worked as an independent lawyer in Kassel . In the post-war period in Germany he died at the age of 67 from the long-term effects of a wound from the First World War.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 62/783
2. ^ Former heads of the city of Wilhelmshaven , accessed on December 17, 2009
3. ^ The Lord Mayors of the City of Herne , accessed on December 17, 2009
4. ↑ Wolfgang Gorniak: Herne under the Hakenkreuz , 1985. P. 32 ff.