Emil Neddermeyer

Emil Otto Hermann Neddermeyer (born November 28, 1894 in Helmstedt ; † March 25, 1951 there ) was a German trade union official and politician of the SPD . In 1946 he was the first post-war mayor of the city of Helmstedt and from 1949 to 1951 he was the chief district director of the Helmstedt district .

Life

Emil Neddermeyer was born in Helmstedt in 1894. After an apprenticeship as a roofer , he initially worked in this profession, interrupted by his participation in the First World War from 1914 to 1918. He suffered an accident at work and was retrained to become a businessman due to the walking handicap. In 1925 he became sales point manager at the Helmstedter Konsum-Verein and was its warehouse keeper from 1929 to 1945. From 1923 or 1925 to 1929 he was the local chairman of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB). He led the Helmstedt local chairmanship of the SPD from 1925 to 1933. From the beginning of 1928 he was also a member of the city council .

time of the nationalsocialism

When the local parliament was brought into line by the National Socialists , Neddermeyer was forced to renounce his parliamentary seat and was arrested and interrogated eight times in 1933 alone. In 1942 he was imprisoned for 22 months. From August to September 1944 he was imprisoned in the Gestapo special camp 21 near what is now the Hallendorf district of the city of Salzgitter as part of the grid action .

After the Second World War

After the end of the Second World War , Neddermeyer operated the re-establishment of the SPD local association Helmstedt. The British military government appointed him as a head of department at the county's economic and food department. On April 21, 1946, Neddermeyer was elected first mayor after the end of the war by a local council appointed by the military government; his deputy became a lawyer and SPD member Wilhelm Abry. Both remained in office until October 2, 1946. Neddermeyer then worked as a representative of the senior district director Richard Voigt , whose successor he became in October 1949. He held this office until his death on March 25, 1951. During his tenure, Neddermeyer worked to alleviate the housing shortage, expanded the hospital and promoted the establishment of the Mariental district nursing home .

literature

Brage bei der Wieden , Henning Steinführer (ed.): Office and responsibility. Local authority responsible for self-government in the area of activity in the Braunschweig landscape. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2015, ISBN 978-3-944939-10-0 , pp. 148–149 and 630–632.
Rolf Volkmann: Neddermeyer, Emil Otto Hermann . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 437 .

Individual evidence

^ Rolf Volkmann: Neddermeyer, Emil Otto Hermann . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 437 .
^ Brage bei der Wieden , Henning Steinführer (Ed.): Office and responsibility. Local authority responsible for self-government in the area of activity in the Braunschweig landscape. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2015, ISBN 978-3-944939-10-0 , p. 631.
^ Brage bei der Wieden , Henning Steinführer (Ed.): Office and responsibility. Local authority responsible for self-government in the area of activity in the Braunschweig landscape. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2015, ISBN 978-3-944939-10-0 , p. 632.

personal data
SURNAME	Neddermeyer, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Neddermeyer, Emil Otto Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German trade union official and politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH	November 28, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Helmstedt
DATE OF DEATH	March 25, 1951
Place of death	Helmstedt

[1] Rolf Volkmann: Neddermeyer, Emil Otto Hermann . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 437 .

[2] Brage bei der Wieden , Henning Steinführer (Ed.): Office and responsibility. Local authority responsible for self-government in the area of activity in the Braunschweig landscape. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2015, ISBN 978-3-944939-10-0 , p. 631.

[3] Brage bei der Wieden , Henning Steinführer (Ed.): Office and responsibility. Local authority responsible for self-government in the area of activity in the Braunschweig landscape. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2015, ISBN 978-3-944939-10-0 , p. 632.