Emil Schwamberger

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Schwamberger as a Scot (1902)

Emil Wilhelm Schwamberger , actually Emil Wilhelm Schwammberger (born February 9, 1882 in Löwenstein ; † July 20, 1955 in Stuttgart ) was a German local politician and from 1919 to 1933 Lord Mayor of Ulm .

Life

Emil Schwamberger (actually Schwammberger , he only used the spelling Schwamberger after 1945) came from a family of winemakers. He studied law and political science in Berlin and Tübingen , and received his doctorate in Heidelberg . In Tübingen he became a member of the student union Landsmannschaft Scotland . In 1907 he entered the Württemberg civil service as a bailiff. In 1910 he was defeated in a candidacy for the municipal school authority in Geislingen an der Steige . In 1914 Schwamberger became a councilor at the Stuttgart city administration. In 1918 he was one of the founding members of the left-liberal DDP in Stuttgart. In 1919 he was elected Lord Mayor of Ulm to succeed Heinrich von Wagner (initially Stadtschultheiß, Schwamberger received the official title in 1920).

Initially the reorganization of the municipal offices and the stabilization of the economic situation in Ulm after the First World War were in the foreground, but the urban area was also expanded during the period of office (1926 incorporation of Grimmelfingen, 1927 that of Wiblingen ). Schwamberger also had hydropower plants built in Öpfingen and Donaustetten , the Ulm stadium and a swimming pool. In 1924 he founded the Ulm Museum and appointed a specialist art historian, the conservator and university professor Julius Baum , to the position of director of the museum.

When he was re-elected in 1929, Schwamberger was clearly confirmed in office for another 15 years. After the National Socialist seizure of power , however, Schwamberger was removed from office in 1933 and dismissed from service. Schwamberger spent the period from 1933 to 1945 as a retired civil servant in Stuttgart and most recently in Tuttlingen , where he also worked as a writer. In 1945/46 he was one of the co-founders of the DVP (later FDP) Württemberg-Baden and, as its representative, was a member of the Economic Council of the Bizone in Frankfurt am Main in 1948/49 .

In 1945 Ulm made Emil Schwamberger an honorary citizen and in 1983 named a street after him. In 1952 he received the Federal Cross of Merit . In addition, he worked after the war as an author of humorous books such as " Peter Qualm - The novel of a cheerful life ".

literature

  • Emil Schwamberger: Peter Qualm - The novel of a cheerful life , Verlag Deutsche Volksbücher, Stuttgart, 1950
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 400-402 .
  • Michael Ruck : Corps Spirit and State Consciousness: Officials in the German Southwest 1928 to 1972 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-486-56197-5 , pp. 105, 115.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monthly Bulletin of the Country Team Scotland. No. 6, 8th year June 1914, p. 87.
  2. ^ Erwin Treu, History of the Ulmer Museum , in: Ulmer Museum. Catalogs of the Ulmer Museum, Catalog I, Sculpture and Painting from the 13th Century to 1600 , Ulm 1981, p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Schwamberger, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwamberger, Emil Wilhelm (full name); Schwammberger, Emil Wilhelm (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician and Lord Mayor of Ulm (1919–1933)
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Lion's Arch
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1955
Place of death Stuttgart