Emil Gauer
Emil Friedrich Karl Gauer (born November 12, 1905 in Becherbach (Pfalz) , † November 10, 1991 in Enkenbach ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ). Gauer was Lord Mayor of Pirmasens from 1937 to 1945 .
Life
The son of a master baker attended elementary school until 1919 and then switched to the preparation school in Kusel . Gauer broke off his teacher training there in 1922 for financial reasons. After an apprenticeship at Volksbank in Zweibrücken , he worked as a commercial clerk at a colonial goods wholesaler in Trier and at a chocolate factory in Frankfurt am Main between 1925 and 1927 . Until 1928 he attended the Realgymnasium in Meisenheim in order to obtain the entry requirements for the Mannheim Commercial College . In 1930 he passed the commercial examination in Mannheim; In 1932 he broke off his studies for financial reasons. Gauer married in 1934 and the marriage had three children.
Gauer officially joined the NSDAP ( membership number 70.491) on November 15, 1927. Previously, he had on October 23, 1927 local Nazi group founded in Becherbach he held until April 1933 initiated . Gauer was involved in founding other local groups in the Alsenz Valley . From 1928 to 1933 he was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). During his studies, Gauer was a university group leader of the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB).
After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Gauer was NSDAP district leader for Ludwigshafen-Land from August 1933 to 1934 . Since May 1933 he was deputy chairman of the Gau investigative and arbitration committee (USchlA); in August 1934 he succeeded Ernst Ludwig Leyser as district judge.
On May 1, 1937, Gauer was appointed Lord Mayor of Pirmasens by the leadership of the NSDAP district in Saarpfalz . Gauer was supposed to oppose the “radical direction of the party” under his predecessor Rudolf Ramm , who had been removed from office due to mismanagement, and Richard Mann , the Pirmasens district leader . In February 1941 Gauer refused to become mayor and district leader of Ludwigshafen am Rhein , which is said to have annoyed Gauleiter Josef Bürckel . In the final phase of the Second World War , Bürckel's successor, Willi Stöhr , is said to have planned a court martial against Gauer for defeatism on March 19, 1945 , which is said to have not taken place due to an intervention by District President Karl Barth .
After the war ended, Gauer was captured by American troops in Stetten near Heilbronn on May 16, 1945 . According to the automatic arrest , Gauer was interned until December 1949 . In the denazification in January 1950, he was classified as "incriminated". After 1950 Gauer lived as a commercial clerk in his native Becherbach.
literature
- Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its divisions in the area of today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate . (= Publications of the Parliament's Commission for the History of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 28) Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2007, ISBN 3-7758-1407-8 , pp. 228-230.
Web links
- Entry on Emil Gauer in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gauer, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gauer, Emil Friedrich Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), Lord Mayor of Pirmasens |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Becherbach (Palatinate) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1991 |
| Place of death | Enkenbach |
Christian König (1885–1896) | Ludwig König sen. (1897-1905) | Otto Strobel (1905–1934) | Rudolf Ramm (1934–1937) | Emil Gauer (1937–1945) | Jakob Schunk (1945–1967) | Karl Rheinwalt (1967–1993) | Robert Schelp (1994-1998) | Joseph Krekeler (1999–2003) | Bernhard Matheis (2003–2019) | Markus Zwick (since 2019)