Erich Dieckmann (politician)

Erich Dieckmann (born July 20, 1885 in Lüneburg ; † January 21, 1953 there ) was a German lawyer and politician ( DVP or CDU ). From 1951 to 1952 he was Lord Mayor of Lüneburg.

Life

Dieckmann came from a respected merchant family and studied by the School at Johanneum law in Jena and Göttingen . He passed the assessor exam in 1914 in Berlin . He served as an officer in the First World War . Afterwards, the doctor of law settled in his hometown as a lawyer and was a member of the DVP until 1933.

On September 26, 1945 he was appointed by the British military government as a member of the Lüneburg city council, on March 16, 1946 the Lüneburg CDU, founded on the same day, elected him as its first chairman. In the local elections in 1946 and 1948 he was elected councilor . In the council he was a member of the administrative , finance , constitution , culture and health committees , and chaired the last two. In November 1951 he became mayor because his predecessor Paul Müller ( German party ) had left the city for professional reasons. Due to illness, Dieckmann did not run again in the local elections in 1952, but left office in November of that year. When he passed away just a few weeks later, the obituaries praised him as objective, humble and a “real personality”.

literature

• Elmar Peter, The Mayors, Lord Mayors and City Directors of the City of Lüneburg. 2004
• Manfred Balzer: The CDU in the district of Lüneburg 1945-2003. In: The CDU in the city and district of Lüneburg. A historical overview 1945-2003. Offset printing by Fritz Fischer, Felbach-Oeffingen 2007