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Stumbling block in Coburg for Erich Unverfähr

Erich Unverfähr (born May 12, 1885 in Berlin-Lichterfelde , † February 22, 1946 in Würzburg ) was a German lawyer and politician . He was mayor of Coburg (1924–1931).

Life

Born as the son of a law firm, Unverfähr studied law in Jena and Berlin after attending grammar school in Berlin-Lichterfelde . During his studies in 1904 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar . After graduating and clerkship at the Supreme Court , he was in 1912 Gerichtsassessor , but then moved in 1914 to the local government and was Assessor Council in Treptow. From 1916 to 1919 he worked as a senator in Gotha , then as second mayor of Arnstadt .

Approximately applied in Coburg on May 25, 1924 for the election of the first mayor. He got the majority of the vote but not an absolute majority. Therefore the decision lay with the Coburg city council. The elected him on June 4, 1924 in a runoff election with 14:13 votes for the first legally qualified mayor. He was non-party and an opponent of National Socialism . Since August 1930, the NSDAP had the majority of the voting members of the city council. On July 1, 1931, the Coburg city council put Unverfähr into temporary retirement until 1934.

On February 22, 1946 Unverfähr died in Würzburg due to jaundice . Most recently he worked there as a public accountant .

A stumbling block in Coburg has been remembering him since 2009 .

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , p. 96.
Till Mayer: Coburg's dark chapter. In: Obermain-Tagblatt . April 3, 2013 ( online ).

Web links

1931. Erich Unverfähr, born. 1885 / Markt 1. In: stadtgeschichte-coburg.de, May 22, 2014

Individual evidence

^ Coburg newspaper . Volume 63, No. 131, June 5, 1924, [p. 1] ( online in: Digitale-sammlungen.de, accessed on October 13, 2017).
↑ Joachim Albrecht: The avant-garde of the "Third Reich" - The Coburg NSDAP during the Weimar Republic 1922-1933 (= European university publications. Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences. Vol. 1008). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-631-53751-4 , p. 128 (Zugl .: Bamberg, Univ., Diss., 2004).
↑ Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Against forgetting. Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006732-9 , p. 193.

personal data
SURNAME	About, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 12, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin-Lichterfelde
DATE OF DEATH	February 22, 1946
Place of death	Wurzburg

[1] Coburg newspaper . Volume 63, No. 131, June 5, 1924, [p. 1] ( online in: Digitale-sammlungen.de, accessed on October 13, 2017).

[2] Joachim Albrecht: The avant-garde of the "Third Reich" - The Coburg NSDAP during the Weimar Republic 1922-1933 (= European university publications. Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences. Vol. 1008). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-631-53751-4 , p. 128 (Zugl .: Bamberg, Univ., Diss., 2004).

[3] Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Against forgetting. Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006732-9 , p. 193.