Eugen Siebecke

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Eugen Siebecke (born June 11, 1891 in Rothenditmold near Kassel , † October 13 or 15, 1959 in Marburg , buried in Oberasphe ) was a teacher , administrative clerk and first mayor of the city of Marburg after the Second World War .

biography

Eugen Siebecke was born in 1891 as the son of a businessman. After attending school in Frankenberg , he passed the teachers 'examination at the teachers' seminar there and then accepted a teaching position in Erdhausen . He later studied local politics in Düsseldorf . In Kassel he also attended the art academy. His first wife, from Düsseldorf, with whom he had two children, died in 1922. Six years later, Siebecke entered into a second marriage in Worms , from which five children had descended.

He worked in several administrations, including a. in Biedenkopf and Dillenburg . During the Weimar Republic , Siebecke was a member of the Hessian Provincial Parliament , the Hessian District Assembly and the District Committee and the Magistrate in Biedenkopf.

Due to his membership in the SPD since 1919, he was dismissed from administrative service in the district youth and welfare office in Biedenkopf by the National Socialists in 1933 . For two months in 1940 he was even placed in what was known as protective custody . During the time of National Socialist rule Siebecke lived in Marburg from October 1934, at 11 Bismarckstrasse . Through contacts with the Marburg district leader Hans Krawielitzki , he got a position with the German Labor Front (DAF), which would later be his undoing.

In the extremely difficult time after the collapse in 1945, Eugen Siebecke was acting Lord Mayor of Marburg for almost a year. He was appointed acting Lord Mayor by the American military government only a few days after the invasion of the American troops on April 1, installed on April 6, 1945 and officially appointed Mayor of Marburg on April 22. The reasons are not exactly known. In addition to English language skills, it can be assumed that his clean political past and the Americans' search for unencumbered people as well as his administrative knowledge were an important reason for this. The most extensive problems in his work were denazification and the restoration of municipal supplies for the city of Marburg. There were probably several conflicts with a "State Political Committee" of the citizens of Marburg, an initiative of democratic, anti-fascist-minded forces and also a "Special Department U" from police circles, which was dissolved in June 1945. At the end of 1945 there were major differences between the “State Political Committee” and the Lord Mayor. The committee, although officially dissolved, complained that, according to citizen submissions, Friedrich Dickmann, who later succeeded him as mayor, had given his brother advantages. Out of office he was arrested by the Americans at the beginning of 1946 and brought to court for falsifying his denazification questionnaire. Siebecke had not indicated his position at the DAF, and the threat to the citizens' council member Hans Schwedes and a US officer. He became a prison sentence of two years ' imprisonment convicted.

In the office of Lord Mayor, he was officially replaced on February 5, 1946 by Friedrich Dickmann , who took over the office until July 31, 1946.

From custody - he was presumably released on bail of 5,000 marks - he managed to escape to the Soviet occupation zone . Here he was hired as a ministerial advisor in the Saxon Ministry of Finance . He returned to Marburg in April 1949 and, after having been arrested on May 13, 1949, had to serve a five-month prison sentence in Butzbach .

Siebecke then retired into private life, but fought for his rehabilitation. His applications for pensions were rejected several times, most recently on April 10, 1950 by the then Mayor of Marburg and, from 1951, Lord Mayor Georg Gaßmann . He was later given a pension for his work before 1933 and recognition of discrimination by the rule of the NSDAP in the Third Reich.

In the last years of his life he devoted himself to painting, organized several exhibitions and was a co-founder of the Marburger Kunstverein .

literature

  • Alexander Cramer, Sarah Christin Wilder: "... that here in the city of Marburg the will of the Führer will be fulfilled." National Socialism and local self-government. Institutions. People. Effects (1930-1950). Marburg 2015, pp. 142–155 and p. 198 (short biography).
  • John Gimbel: A German city under American occupation. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Berlin / Cologne 1964.
  • Barbara Wagner: Eugen Siebecke, Marburg's forgotten Lord Mayor (1945-1946). Pp. 45-68. In: Marburger Stadtschriften, MSS No. 68 - Awakening between lack and refusal - Marburg in the post-war years. Volume 2.
  • Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the administrative district of Wiesbaden. 1868–1933 (= Nassau parliamentarians. Vol. 2 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. Vol. 17 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. Vol. 71). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , pp. 316-318.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 358.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Karl-Heinz Gimbel: Mayor of Marburg - Part 10: Eugen Siebecke (1945–1946). In: myheimat.de. July 7, 2016, accessed February 13, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Marburg City Archives: Personal files Pa 828, Eugen Siebecke; quoted According to Karl-Heinz Gimbel - Mayor of Marburg: Eugen Siebecke (1945–1946) ( Memento from November 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: gimbel-mr.de, accessed on April 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Karl-Heinz Gimbel - Mayor of Marburg: Eugen Siebecke (1945–1946) ( Memento from November 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: gimbel-mr.de, accessed on April 9, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Cramer, Wilder: "... that here in the city of Marburg the will of the Führer will be fulfilled." National Socialism and local self-government. Institutions. People. Effects (1930-1950). Marburg 2015, p. 198.
  5. ^ Appointment of a provisional mayor in Marburg, April 1, 1945. Contemporary history in Hesse (as of June 1, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 13, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b Karl-Heinz Gimbel - Mayor of Marburg: Friedrich Dickmann (1946) ( Memento from February 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: gimbel-mr.de, accessed on February 13, 2017.
  7. ↑ A broader account of the conflicts in the post-war situation in Marburg is elaborated in:
    Alexander Cramer, Sarah Christin Wilder: "... that here in the city of Marburg the will of the Führer is fulfilled." National Socialism and local self-government. Institutions. People. Effects (1930-1950). Marburg 2015, p. 148 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Siebecke, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician, Lord Mayor of Marburg
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothenditmold , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1959 or October 15, 1959
Place of death uncertain: Marburg