Eugen Sommer

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Eugen Sommer (born May 23, 1876 in Edenkoben ; † May 18, 1961 in Grünstadt ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and publisher.

Live and act

The residential and publishing building built by Eugen Sommer in 1907
Printer grasp , essay from the former courtyard gate of the book printer, 1907 (now Museum Grünstadt)

He was born as the eldest son of the blind publisher and newspaper founder Emil Sommer . He died in 1904. In 1886 he had his publishing house, founded in 1878, transferred from Edenkoben to Grünstadt and from the same year published the new Grünstadter Zeitung , which existed until 1934.

Eugen Sommer took over his father's publishing house in 1904 and expanded it. Under his aegis, books were also increasingly published there. In 1907 he had the new residential and publishing buildings built on the corner of Sausenheimer and Kirchheimer Str. And expanded in 1924 and 1927 respectively. The newspaper lost its independence in May 1934 when it was integrated into the press empire of the Palatinate NSDAP under Josef Bürckel , whereby the accusation made by the National Socialists against Sommer of having a "non-Aryan" grandfather played a role.

After the Second World War , Sommer became a member of the CDU and from 1945 to 1956 - with a brief interruption - was a member of the Grünstadt City Council. From 1946 to 1948 he was second alderman in Grünstadt, and in 1946 a member of the advisory state assembly of Rhineland-Palatinate . Sommer is also considered the initiator of the Grünstadt cultural association founded in 1949 . In October 1945 he wrote a position against a newly appointed magistrate in Grünstadt with family involvement in high Nazi circles.

The Grünstadter Zeitung revived briefly in the post-war period, but could not withstand the competition from Die Rheinpfalz . Eugen Sommer continued to run the prosperous book publisher until his death.

His younger brother was the mayor of Treuchtlingen , Emil Sommer (1885-1936), who had been there for many years and was expelled there in 1933 because of his half-Jewish descent.

literature

  • The President of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 . 1st edition. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04751-1 , p. 666 .
  • Festschrift 75 Years of Book Printing and Publishing Emil Sommer , Grünstadt, Grünstadt, 1953

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Lampert: 1100 Years of Grünstadt , Emil Sommer Verlag, Grünstadt, 1975, p. 385
  2. ↑ Stephan Pieroth: "Press under the swastika. The Palatinate daily newspapers 1933 to 1945", page 184ff, in: Gerhard Nestler, Roland Paul, Hannes Ziegler (editor): "Brown years in the Palatinate", Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 2016, ISBN 978-3-927754-85-0
  3. ^ Website on the history of the Grünstadt cultural association
  4. ^ Edith Raim: Justice between dictatorship and democracy: Reconstruction and punishment of Nazi crimes in West Germany 1945-1949 , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2013, p. 235, ISBN 3486735659 ; (Digital scan)
  5. ^ Website of the city of Treuchtlingen on Mayor Sommer
personal data
SURNAME Summer, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL Rhineland-Palatinate
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Edenkoben
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1961
Place of death Grünstadt