Eugene Boulanger

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Eugen Boulanger (* 1876 in Bonndorf in the Black Forest ; † 1947 ) was Mayor of Mosbach from 1924 to 1933 . He was expelled from office by the National Socialists and in November 1945 received the honorary citizenship of Mosbach.

Life

He was the son of district judge Karl August Boulanger (1843–1890) and came to Mosbach in his early youth due to a change in his father's position. After the father's death in 1890, the mother moved with the children to Karlsruhe . There Boulanger studied at the Technical University and in 1894 became a member of the Karlsruhe Burschenschaft Tulla , then known as "AIV Tulla". He then worked as a railway construction engineer in the German colony [German East Africa, now Tanzania] and as a bridge construction engineer during the First World War. After the First World War, he became a town builder in Singen .

In 1924 he prevailed against seven other candidates as the successor to Jakob Renz, who was no longer running for health reasons, in the mayoral election in Mosbach . Boulanger was elected mayor for nine years, and his term ended on March 24, 1933.

However, the announcement of new elections was delayed several times by the National Socialists who, after the so-called seizure of power in January 1933, pushed the local administrations into line. After the government of Baden was dismissed in March 1933, Reich Commissioner Robert Wagner announced that the previous mayor of Baden was undesirable. At the same time, the local NSDAP leader Wilhelm Staab was assigned to the municipal administration as State Commissioner, who immediately put council clerk Wilhelm Schwarz on leave and also put Boulanger on hold. Boulanger tried to apply for re-election but was outright expelled from office. When it finally came to the election of a new mayor on July 10, 1933, the citizen committee voted unanimously for the Nazi party favorite Theophil Lang , a party member from Adelsheim, who two weeks after his election made Robert Wagner an honorary citizen of Mosbach.

After the Second World War, the American occupying power appointed Wilhelm Schwarz as acting mayor. He wanted to bring the now 69-year-old Boulanger back into the administration, but he refused for health reasons. In the first municipal council meeting he chaired, Schwarz withdrew Wagner's honorary citizenship, and in the second meeting on November 9, 1945, he gave it to Boulanger.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 129-130.
  • Karl Heinz Neser: Profiles of the region: Karl August and Eugen Boulanger . In: Unser Land , Heidelberg 1997, pp. 187–188.
  • Karl Heinz Neser: Mosbach's honorary citizen Former Mayor Dr. Eugen Boulanger (1876-1947) . In: Mosbacher Jahresheft 2008, pp. 127–131.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. Directory of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 51.
  2. ↑ Otto Wolfsperger: Meine Lebenserinnerungen, Cologne self-published 1973, p. 49
personal data
SURNAME Boulanger, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Mosbach (1924–1933)
DATE OF BIRTH 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonndorf in the Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH 1947