Edgar Mais

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Edgar Mais (born March 27, 1926 in Siesbach ) is a German teacher , local researcher and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Mais attended the advanced high school and then the teachers' seminar , which he had to interrupt because of his participation in the Second World War . After the end of the war he continued his teacher training. In 1948 he passed the first and in 1951 the second teacher examination. He initially worked as a primary school teacher and passed the examination for teaching at secondary schools in 1967. He then worked as a secondary school teacher, from 1971 as a teacher.

Mais joined the SPD in 1959. From 1960 he was a member of the district council in the Birkenfeld district and from 1969 a councilor for the city of Idar-Oberstein . From 1968 to 1970 he was chairman of the SPD Idar-Oberstein city association. In 1969 he was elected to the executive committee of the SPD sub-district. In the state elections in 1971 , 1975 and 1979 he was elected as a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament, to which he was a member until 1983.

Since 1985 Mais has published writings on local history of Idar-Oberstein and the surrounding area, in particular on the history of National Socialism with a focus on the persecution of Jews . In 2013 he was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Birkenfeld district.

He lives in the Göttschied district of Idar-Oberstein .

Publications (selection)

  • The persecution of the Jews in the Bad Kreuznach and Birkenfeld districts from 1933 to 1945. (= Local history publication series of the Bad Kreuznach district. 24). Fiedler, Bad Kreuznach 1988, ISBN 3-924824-64-9 .
  • Reparation? Violence and terror of the Nazi state, committed against the former Jewish citizens of the Bad Kreuznach and Birkenfeld districts as reflected in the files of the Bad Kreuznach District Court. A documentation. (= Series of publications by the Birkenfeld District Adult Education Center. 27). 1992, ISSN  0723-3108 .
  • Germany under the Nazi dictatorship - also in the Birkenfeld region. (= Series of publications by the Birkenfeld district adult education center. 36). 2009, ISBN 978-3-92382-498-4 .

literature

  • Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. Volume 38, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2003, p. 914.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Medal of Honor for Corn and Napping. Press release. District of Birkenfeld, October 14, 2013, accessed on November 4, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Corn, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, local researcher and politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Siesbach