Eugene Maurer
Eugen Maurer (born February 16, 1884 in Lindau ; † April 22, 1959 ) was a German politician and honorary mayor of Solingen .
Eugen Maurer came to Solingen as a trained carpenter in 1902, where he later became a self-employed master carpenter. In the following year he joined the SPD , for which he entered the city council in 1919. Until their ban on June 22, 1933, he belonged to the city council faction of his party, most recently as chairman. On April 3, 1933, he voted against the granting of honorary citizenship to Adolf Hitler . After its legal possibilities for political activity until the end of the Second World Warwere prevented, he returned to the city council from 1946 to 1955. From November 4, 1948 to December 9, 1955, Eugen Maurer was the first social democratic mayor of the post-war period and the first to be elected after Josef Brisch had been appointed as one of his predecessors by the Prussian State Ministry to hold the office temporarily. During his tenure, the first trolleybus line went into operation on June 19, 1952 , and the 21st World Cycling Championships took place in Solingen in 1954 . An urban retirement home, the Eugen-Maurer-Haus, was named after him.
“The war destroyed a large part of our city. […] We have an obligation to stand up for those who have been bombed out, we have to care for the poorest of the poor, for the refugees, for those who have no housing; we have to get closer to housing. [...] I think our voters demand practical work and not long speeches. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gallery of the Lord Mayors, Solingen 2012 ( Memento from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 14.0 MB)
Web links
- Gallery of the Lord Mayors, Solingen 2012 ( Memento from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 14.0 MB)
- Eugen-Maurer-Haus on www2.solingen.de
Friedrich Haumann (1894–1896) | August Dicke (1896–1928) | Hermann Schmidhäusler (1928–1930) | Josef Brisch (1930–1933) | Helmut Otto (1933–1937) | Rudolf Brückmann (1937–1945) | Oskar Rieß (1945) | Josef Brisch (1945–1946) | Albert Müller (1946) | Gerhard Hebborn (1946–1948) | Eugen Maurer (1948–1955) | Karl Haberland (1955–1961) | Otto Voos (1961–1964) | Heinz Dunkel (1964–1972) | Elisabeth Roock (1973–1975) | Otto Voos (1975-1976) | Georg Schlößer (1976–1984) | Gerd Kaimer (1984-1997) | Ulrich Uibel (1997–1999) | Franz Haug (1999–2009) | Norbert Feith (2009–2015) | Tim Kurzbach (since 2015)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maurer, Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician and mayor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lindau (Lake Constance) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1959 |