Emil Sommer (Mayor)
Emil Otto Sommer (born November 2, 1885 in Edenkoben , Rheinpfalz , † July 13, 1936 in Würzburg ) was a German lawyer and full-time mayor of the city of Treuchtlingen .
origin
Emil Sommer was the son of the printing house owner and publisher of the same name and his wife Pauline geb. Dressler from Kaiserslautern . The father was born in Edenkoben as the son of the lottery taker Elias Sommer (1804-1862), who converted from Judaism to the Protestant faith. He lost sight of typhoid at the age of eight . At the age of 16 he invented an apparatus for printing and writing by the blind. In 1878 he founded his own newspaper publisher, which he moved to Grünstadt in 1886 and which from then on published the "Grünstadter Zeitung" , which developed quickly in the absence of any other local newspaper and practically held a monopoly here for the next 50 years or so.
When the father died in 1904, the eldest son Eugen Sommer (1876–1961) became the company's boss.
Live and act
Emil Sommer grew up in Grünstadt and attended the Progymnasium there . Since his brother Eugen took over his father's publishing house, he studied law and entered the Bavarian civil service.
On November 7, 1917, the Treuchtlingen magistrate unanimously elected him as a legally qualified mayor. Emil Sommer remained in this office for 15 years and made great contributions to the city. He was non-party and thus stood above the political disputes. On a commemorative page of the city of Treuchtlingen it says: “Above all, Sommer knew how to gather a competent staff around himself and thus strengthen the city's administration and create the basis for future developments. He tried tirelessly. "
In 1932 he applied for the office of Lord Mayor of Kaiserslautern, but could not prevail against the candidate Hans Weisbrod .
When the Hitler government came to power in 1933 , a smear campaign began against Mayor Sommer because of his Jewish descent. On October 1, 1933, he was forced to resign. He had to leave Treuchtlingen with his family without thanks or recognition for his work and without any goodbyes. He moved to Würzburg with his wife and two sons, where he died in 1936.
Today in Treuchtlingen the “Mayor's Summer Street” is named after him. The collection of the Museum der Stadt Grünstadt contains a large number of private letters and photos by Emil Sommer.
literature
- Walter E. Keller: Jewish life in Treuchtlingen: history and stories , Wek-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3934145620 , p. 53 u. 113; Cutout scan 1. , Cutout scan 2.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Edmund Strutz: German gender book: genealogical manual of bourgeois families; Sources and compilations with lineages of German bourgeois genders , Volume 208, Verlag Starke, 1998, p. 29, ISBN 3798002088 ; (Detail scan).
- ↑ 200-year anniversary of the Progymnasium Grünstadt , list of still living students, Riedel Verlag, Grünstadt, 1929, p. 31
- ^ Daniel Herbe: Hermann Weinkauff (1894-1981): the first President of the Federal Court of Justice , Verlag Mohr Siebeck, 2008, p. 38, ISBN 316149461X ; (Digital view).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Summer, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sommer, Emil Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and full-time mayor of the city of Treuchtlingen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edenkoben , Rhine Palatinate |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1936 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |