Friedrich Foerster (politician)

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Friedrich Foerster (born October 17, 1894 in Stuttgart , † 1970 in Ulm ) was a German local politician. He was Lord Mayor of Ulm from 1933 to 1945 during the National Socialist era .

Foerster was the son of the publisher Rudolf Foerster and attended the Realgymnasium in Berlin from 1901 to 1914 and, after the First World War, the Technical University of Karlsruhe until 1921 , which he graduated from as an electrical engineer. As a graduate engineer, he worked at Siemens-Schuckert-Werk in Mannheim and Karlsruhe until 1923 , then switched to the Baden state electricity supply in Karlsruhe.

From 1928 Foerster worked as a senior engineer at the municipal electricity company in Ulm. In 1930 he was appointed building officer and deputy director there. As a NSDAP and SA member since 1931 (he reached the rank of Oberführer in the SA in 1942 ), he was appointed Lord Mayor of Ulm in 1933 in place of Emil Schwamberger , who was re-elected for 15 years in 1929, but who had been deposed from office. Foerster was the first mayor of Ulm since 1819 who did not emerge from elections and remained in office until the end of the Second World War .

One focus of Foerster's tenure was the promotion of municipal housing. A merger with the neighboring Bavarian town of Neu-Ulm , which he operated but did not materialize, led to open hostility with the local mayor, Franz Josef Nuessl . During the Second World War Foerster was several times at his own request in the Wehrmacht, partly on the Eastern Front until 1942 as mayor uk was -gestellt.

After the end of the war, Foerster was arrested in Leutkirch in May 1945 and remained interned until April 1948. In 1948, the Ulm Spruchkammer classified him as an offender . The sentence included 2 years in a labor camp, which was considered served because of the internment, as well as financial conditions. In 1954 the expiatory measures that were still in force were lifted, and in 1958 he was granted a pardon that eased his financial situation. From 1950 he worked - withdrawn from the public - again in his learned profession as head of the technical office of Schorch-Werke AG, Rheydt / Rhineland in Ulm.

literature

  • Uly Foerster and Michael Moos: "How will things continue here in Germany?". An unusual conversation about childhood and taboos. In: Lillian Gewirtzman and Karla Nieraad (eds.): After the silence. Stories of descendants . Ulm 2016, ISBN 978-3-86281-105-2 , pp. 136-147.
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 106 f .
  • Degeners who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 423.