Emil Peters (politician)

Emil Peters (born June 22, 1882 in Lippstadt ; † February 12, 1934 in Detmold ) was a German local politician and mayor of Detmold from 1920 to 1933 . Peters was not a party member, but was politically close to the DVP .

Life

Emil Peters was born on June 22, 1882 in Lippstadt as the son of the government builder Emil Peters. After graduating from high school, he studied law in Halle, Munich and Göttingen from 1901 to 1904. In 1904 he put the state examination and received his doctorate in 1906 in Göttingen about "The concept and the constitutional and international legal status of the natives in the German protectorates under German colonial rights" to Dr. jur. After the great state legal examination in 1909, he worked in 1910 as a court assessor at the district court in Neustadt am Rübenberge and until 1916 in the municipal administrations of Hildesheim , Finsterwalde and Forst . In 1914 he married his wife Dorothea Peters, b. Shepherd. Son Günther was born in 1921.

Emil Peters was second mayor of Graudenz from 1916 to 1919, and mayor in 1919. When Graudenz was assigned to Poland in January 1920, Peters was expelled and came to Detmold. Here he was unanimously elected Lord Mayor. His first term of office ran from April 9, 1920 to May 5, 1931, the second ended prematurely: On March 6, 1933, Peters refused to hoist the swastika flag in front of the town hall. After making a careless statement, he was taken into protective custody on March 31 and replaced on April 1 by the NSDAP politician Hans Keller . Peters was officially retired on June 30, 1933 by Reich Governor Dr. Alfred Meyer .

He committed in 1934 on 12 February suicide .

Honors

On August 13, 1953, Emil Peters was recognized as a victim of and victim of the National Socialist tyranny . A street in Detmold-Süd has been named after Emil Peters.

Web links

City of Detmold: "Protective custody" ( Memento from April 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Photo by Emil Peters from the Lippe calendar (1934), accessible in the regional documentation of the Lippische Landesbibliothek

Individual evidence

↑ Entry at genealogy.net. Retrieved May 25, 2013 .
^ Regional documentation of the Lippische Landesbibliothek
↑ Entry on Worldcat
↑ Emil Peters. Heimatland Lippe, 70th year 1977. Retrieved on May 26, 2013 .
↑ Hanns-Peter Fink: Leopoldinum - Gymnasium zu Detmold 1602–2002 (= special publications of the Natural Science and Historical Association for the Land of Lippe . Volume 64 ). Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-89528-365-7 , p. 369 .

personal data
SURNAME	Peters, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German local politician and mayor of Detmold (1920–1933)
DATE OF BIRTH	June 22, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lippstadt
DATE OF DEATH	February 12, 1934
Place of death	Detmold

[1] Entry at genealogy.net. Retrieved May 25, 2013 .

[2] Regional documentation of the Lippische Landesbibliothek

[3] Entry on Worldcat

[4] Emil Peters. Heimatland Lippe, 70th year 1977. Retrieved on May 26, 2013 .

[5] Hanns-Peter Fink: Leopoldinum - Gymnasium zu Detmold 1602–2002 (= special publications of the Natural Science and Historical Association for the Land of Lippe . Volume 64 ). Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-89528-365-7 , p. 369 .