Emil Helms

Emil Helms (born December 14, 1884 in Aabenraa , † September 12, 1965 in Lübeck ) was a German lawyer and politician of the SPD .

Life

Helms attended grammar school in Flensburg until 1903 . From 1903 to 1906 he studied law at the universities of Munich, Berlin and Kiel. From 1906 to 1911 he completed his legal clerkship in the province of Schleswig-Holstein and passed the assessor exam in Berlin in 1911. Helms worked from 1912 to 1916, most recently as magistrate syndic in Kiel , and in 1917 became mayor of the city of Leer (East Friesland) . In 1920 he joined the State Insurance Company of the Hanseatic Cities in Lübeck as a board member. In 1933 he was removed from office by the National Socialists due to political unreliability, but was reinstated there in 1939. Helms was Lübeck's mayor from 1946 to 1950 and then retired.

As a sideline, Helms was chairman of the board of the Possehl Foundation in Lübeck.

Fonts

• The social democratic and trade union movement in Denmark , Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1907

Awards

• Honor plaque of the Senate
• Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1954)

literature

• Stefan Pötzsch: Emil Helms in Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland (BLO) Volume III, Aurich 2001, pp. 196–198 ( digitized version )
• Siegfried Schier: Emil Helms in Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 8, p. 179 ff.
• Jessica von Seggern: Democratic new beginning in Lübeck: Emil Helms and Otto Passarge as the highest representatives of the city after 1945. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde , 86 (2006), pp. 229–242
• Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 112/113