Emil Heim

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Emil Peter Heim (born October 26, 1887 in Blieskastel , † October 15, 1967 in Saarbrücken ) was a German politician and acting Lord Mayor of Saarbrücken.

Life

After graduating from high school in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , Heim studied law in Munich, Würzburg, Kiel and Berlin from 1906 and graduated in 1910 with the first state examination. He completed his military service as a one-year volunteer and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1912 on "The concealment of minors and similar cases as a crime". He returned from the First World War as a war disabled man, passed the second state examination in Munich in 1917, entered the Bavarian civil service in 1918 and took on various public offices. In 1920 he married Hermine Dröll.

In 1931 he settled in Saarbrücken as a lawyer. At the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted as a first lieutenant in the reserve and did military service until 1945, a longer period of which with the military administration in Metz , where he tried, in some cases with success, to counter attacks by the Nazi authorities on the population. Immediately after the end of the war, he was appointed to the Saar Regional Council on May 10, 1945 and temporarily held the post of Lord Mayor of Saarbrücken from August 15, 1945 to September 30, 1946 (i.e. until the first local election) and from August 15, 1945 to provisionally the office of district administrator in the district of Saarbrücken on October 10, 1945 . In 1947 he resigned from the civil service as chief government director and resumed his work as a lawyer.

From 1952 to 1962 he was Vice President of the Saarland Bar Association, from 1962 President of the Court of Honor.

literature

  • Hanns Klein: Short biographies of the mayors of (old) Saarbrücken, St. Johanns, Malstatt-Burbachs and the city of Saarbrücken . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region, XIX, Saarbrücken 1971, pp. 510-538. At home p. 530f.

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