Erich Vagts
Erich Vagts (born February 9, 1896 in Cuxhaven ; † February 20, 1980 in Bremen ) was a German politician ( DNVP ) and Governing Mayor of Bremen.
biography
Vagts was the son of a merchant. After graduating from high school in 1914, he served as a soldier in the First World War . From 1919 he studied law and political science at the University of Tübingen and the University of Kiel . After dropping out of his studies, he became Landbunddirektor in Güstrow ( Mecklenburg ). In 1925 he was managing director in Bremen and later deputy state chairman of the German National People's Party (DNVP). Vagts became a member of Bremen's citizenship in 1928 . In 1931 he took over the function of parliamentary group leader of the DNVP.
In 1933, after the bourgeois senate was replaced, he was appointed senator for health care and that of landlord . In Bremen, the landlord was responsible for the administration and the police for the communities in the then still existing Bremen area. On September 30, 1933, he resigned from the Senate. He remained a landlord and at the same time became president of the community supervisory authority. He was a member of the Bremen State Council , an advisory body. From 1936 he was Bremen's representative to the Reich , and in 1938 also Oldenburg's representative . He was not a member of the NSDAP because his application for membership was rejected due to political unreliability .
In April 1945, the Allied Military Government initially appointed the previous Police President Johannes Schroers as Governing Mayor , but only for a few days . When his political past became clear, they appointed Vagts as acting mayor on May 4, 1945 and governing mayor on June 6, 1945. The communist and social democratic senators, however, firmly opposed Vagts. So he was dismissed on August 1, 1945 and Wilhelm Kaisen ( SPD ) was used for it. Vagts was then in an internment camp for about five months from September 5, 1945 to February 7, 1946 .
Vagts, himself a pianist , was appointed chairman of the Philharmonic Society in 1933 after the synchronization and in 1936 was also appointed music representative of the State of Bremen. In 1938 he resigned due to his frequent activity in Berlin as music commissioner, and in 1939 also as chairman of the Philharmonic Society. After the war he occasionally worked as a concert pianist.
See also
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Web links
Johannes Schroers (1945) | Erich Vagts (1945) | Wilhelm Kaisen (1945–1965) | Willy Dehnkamp (1965–1967) | Hans Koschnick (1967–1985) | Klaus Wedemeier (1985–1995) | Henning Scherf (1995-2005) | Jens Böhrnsen (2005–2015) | Carsten Sieling (2015–2019) | Andreas Bovenschulte (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vagts, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (DNVP), Member of the Bundestag, Senator and Governing Mayor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cuxhaven |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1980 |
| Place of death | Bremen |