Erich Meusel

Erich Meusel (born November 23, 1904 in Hohenhausen ; † March 16, 1945 in the Palatinate ) was a German administrative officer and member of the NSDAP . In the National Socialist German Reich he was mayor of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe from August 15, 1934 until his death .

Life

Meusel grew up in the Rhineland and passed the one-year exam in St. Goarshausen ; afterwards he obtained the general university entrance qualification in Wiesbaden . He studied law and camera science in Bonn and Freiburg im Breisgau . The legal traineeship in Cologne in 1929 was followed by training in the Prussian judicial service, which took him to Nastaatten , Wiesbaden and Frankfurt am Main . In November 1933 he finished his training with the assessor exam .

Meusel joined the NSDAP on December 1, 1931 and the SA on June 15, 1932 . As a court assessor , he worked for a short time at the district court of Nastätten and the district office in Frankfurt-Höchst . In mid-February 1934 he was appointed mayor in Hochheim am Main . In August of the same year he was appointed mayor of Bad Homburg to succeed Georg Eberlein, who was dismissed by the National Socialists in 1933, and Richard Hardt, who only held office for a short time, and was also the city's local group leader . Meusel married in Munich in 1935 . At the beginning of 1938 he was drafted for a two-month military service, which he left as a non-commissioned officer . In June he gave up the post of local group leader and was drafted at the beginning of the Second World War. At this time, Meusel also temporarily passed the mayor's position on to city ​​treasurer Johannes Nöldner.

In 1941 Meusel was promoted to lieutenant and in 1943 to first lieutenant ; since the beginning of the attack on the Soviet Union he was deployed on the Eastern Front. Meusel fell on March 16, 1945 at an unknown location in the Palatinate during the fighting of retreat during World War II. He left a wife and three children.

In the denazification process that took place in 1948 - it was about the pension claims of Meusel's widow and the children - Meusel was classified as a "victim".

literature

• Heinz Grosche: History of the city of Bad Homburg in front of the height Volume 4: Three difficult decades 1918–1948 : BD IV. Kramer, Frankfurt 1993, ISBN 3-782-90436-2 , p. 210 f.