Ernst Schlapper

Ernst Schlapper (born December 13, 1888 in Essen , † August 9, 1976 in Baden-Baden ) was Lord Mayor ( CDU ) of Baden-Baden from 1946 to 1969 .

Life

Schlapper was among other things private secretary to the steel industrialist August Thyssen . He was sentenced to prison for a foreign currency offense. After his release in 1937, he moved to Baden-Baden to retire. On September 22nd, 1946, he was elected mayor of the city and devoted himself to building the city. He held this office until June 30, 1969. On the same day he was elected an honorary citizen of Baden-Baden. From 1947 to 1952 he was a member of the Baden state parliament . After the Second World War, Schlapper founded the “Bund für Loyale Restitution”, in whose monthly “Die Restitution” the winners of Aryanization ran a storm against the restitution laws enacted by the Allies . As recently as 1969, the former Aryans succeeded in obtaining compensation as victims of reparations under the reparations damage law.

Mother Courage Incident

Baden-Baden Theater

Schlapper achieved nationwide fame as Lord Mayor with his ban on performing Brecht's mother Courage in the Baden-Baden theater on January 10, 1962 . He justified his decision to the theater director Hannes Tannert by saying that Brecht was unreasonable for the glamorous audience of the world bath of Baden-Baden.

Quotes

When he said goodbye in 1969, he said: "Baden-Baden is heading for wonderful times if we believe in Baden-Baden."

Honors

1955: Large Federal Cross of Merit

literature

Ernst Schlapper , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 48/1976 of November 15, 1976, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

http://www.bad-bad.de/gesch/schlapper.htm

Individual evidence

↑ According to the list of names of the German Biographical Encyclopedia , the list of honorary citizens of the city of Baden-Baden ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the other hand mentions December 13, 1887. @1@ 2

↑ Christian Pross: reparation: the guerrilla war against the victims , Frankfurt am Main: Athenaeum 1988 ISBN 3-610-08502-9 , p. 51

↑ Stephan Buchloh: "Perverse, harmful to young people, hostile to the state": Censorship in the Adenauer era as a mirror of the social climate, Frankfurt / Main [u. a.] (Campus-Verlag) 2002, p. 162

personal data
SURNAME	Schlapper, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician, Lord Mayor of Baden-Baden
DATE OF BIRTH	December 13, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	eat
DATE OF DEATH	August 9, 1976
Place of death	Baden-Baden

[1] According to the list of names of the German Biographical Encyclopedia , the list of honorary citizens of the city of Baden-Baden ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the other hand mentions December 13, 1887. @1@ 2

[2] Christian Pross: reparation: the guerrilla war against the victims , Frankfurt am Main: Athenaeum 1988 ISBN 3-610-08502-9 , p. 51

[3] Stephan Buchloh: "Perverse, harmful to young people, hostile to the state": Censorship in the Adenauer era as a mirror of the social climate, Frankfurt / Main [u. a.] (Campus-Verlag) 2002, p. 162