Erwin Gugelmeier

Erwin Gugelmeier (born January 15, 1879 in Bühl ; † April or May 1945 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer, member of the Reichstag of the German Empire and from 1906 to 1927 the first Lord Mayor of Lörrach .

Life

Gugelmeier was born the son of a postmaster in Bühl. He went to school in Chemnitz and passed his first state examination in law and his doctorate in 1901 . He gained his first professional experience in various local courts and notaries' offices and was a member of the Baden Ministry of Justice for a short time after his second state examination in 1905. In 1906 he applied for the mayor's office in Lörrach from Baden-Baden , where he was active as a city councilor . At the request of the SPD in Loerrach, the position of a full-time mayor for the city of Loerrach was advertised for the first time on June 11, 1906. At the same time, he was the city's first foreign mayor. The starting salary was set at 7,000 marks annually, which increased to 8,000 marks after five years. Gugelmeier was elected by all 82 members of the then citizens' committee. His tenure was overshadowed by the First World War and subsequent inflation . At the same time he was a member of the National Liberal Party in the German Reichstag in 1917/18 . Gugelmeier's goals as mayor were to expand the urban infrastructure of the still young industrial city. Good neighborly relations with the city of Basel were also an urgent concern of Erwin Gugelmeier and he initiated negotiations for the continuation of the Basel tram (→ Tram Lörrach ).

In May 1923 Gugelmeier was appointed Lord Mayor and in September 1923 he had to mediate between the communist-led masses of workers and local entrepreneurs in the Upper Baden uprising . In October 1927, he resigned from his position as Lord Mayor, District Chairman and President of the Baden Association of Cities. On November 26 he received by his successor Heinrich Graser the freedom of the city Loerrach awarded. After his tenure as Lord Mayor, he became President of the Baden Savings Banks Association. In December 1932 he was appointed to the management of the German Giro Association in Berlin . There he held the office of Deputy President and had been on the Provisional Reich Economic Council since March 1933 .

Erwin Gugelmeier died with his family in the turmoil of the Second World War in April or May 1945.

Fonts

Baden and Switzerland , Loerrach 1924
The black year 1917–1918. Experiences from the last year of the war, in the Reichstag and in the Baltic States, in headquarters and at home. Freiburg im Breisgau 1926.
From 1906 to 1926 in the German south-west corner , contribution to the chronicle of the city of Lörrach, Südwestdruck, 1939.
The savings banks abroad. German Savings Banks and Giro Association, 1937.

literature

Gerhard Moehring : Lord Mayor Dr. Erwin Gugelmeier. In: Walter Jung and Gerhard Moehring (eds.): Our Lörrach 1975. A border town in the mirror of time. Kropf & Herz, Lörrach-Tumringen 1975, pages 36-43.
Bernd Haunfelder : The Liberal Members of the German Reichstag 1871-1918. A biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06614-9 , page 169.
Michael Kitzing: Erwin Gugelmeier "creator of modern Loerrach". In: Das Markgräflerland, Volume 1/2011, pp. 72–80

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personal data
SURNAME	Gugelmeier, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (NLP), MdR, Lord Mayor of Lörrach
DATE OF BIRTH	January 15, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buhl
DATE OF DEATH	April 1945 or May 1945
Place of death	Berlin