Fritz Cahn-Garnier

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Fritz Cahn-Garnier (born June 20, 1889 in Mannheim ; † June 8, 1949 there ) was a German lawyer of Jewish origin and a politician of the SPD . He was Finance Minister of Württemberg-Baden in 1946 and Lord Mayor of Mannheim from 1948 until his death.

Life

He was the son of a doctor and took after high school to study law in Heidelberg , Munich , Berlin and Freiburg in which he and two state examination and in 1913 with the graduation to the Dr. jur. finished. He then entered the civil service and in 1922 became city counsel for Mannheim. In addition to working in the city service, he was also a lecturer at the social women's school and trained savings bank officials.

After the National Socialists came to power, he was visited on March 15, 1933 by a group of thugs in the women's school and taken into " protective custody ". A little later he was released from the city administration. Cahn-Garnier then worked in a brush factory. After his wife had been imprisoned as a hostage for her husband, he was imprisoned on exchange in 1938 and later interned temporarily in the Dachau concentration camp , which he was able to leave under strict conditions of silence. Nevertheless, he had already contracted serious illnesses in Dachau and was banned from working in Mannheim. Shortly before the end of the war, he escaped being abducted to Theresienstadt because a woman from Heidelberg hid him for 44 days until the Americans marched in.

Cahn-Garnier's grave in Mannheim

Immediately after the Second World War , he was again active as city counsel in Mannheim until September 1945. Then he was appointed Baden State Director of Finance in Karlsruhe and from January 7th to December 16, 1946 was Minister of Finance in the government of the State of Württemberg-Baden, led by Prime Minister Reinhold Maier . He was also a member of the provisional parliament set up by the American military government in 1946 , the freely elected state constituent assembly and then the first state parliament of Württemberg-Baden. On November 3, 1947, he resigned from the state parliament.

From 1947 to 1949 he was first chairman of the Landeszentralbank Württemberg-Baden and at the same time a member of the Economic Council of the United Economic Area . From 1948 until his death in 1949 he was Lord Mayor of Mannheim. With the support of the KPD and DVP , he won the first direct election after the Second World War against incumbent Josef Braun with 56.6 percent. He died of a heart attack in 1949. In 1959 the city of Mannheim named the Cahn-Garnier-Ufer in Oststadt after him. On his grave in the main cemetery in Mannheim is a red sandstone stele by the sculptor Edzard Hobbing with a cornice, inside a bas-relief with a portrait of the deceased.

literature

  • Wera Cahn-Garnier: Dr. Fritz Cahn-Garnier, Lord Mayor of Mannheim. Badische Heimat, issue 1/1959.
  • Friedrich Walter : Fate of a German City. History of Mannheim 1907–1945. 2 volumes. Frankfurt am Main 1949/1950.
  • Joachim Irek: Mannheim in the years 1945 to 1949. Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-17-007530-6 .
  • Christian Peters: "Fortunately we are an exception". Mannheim in the fifties. Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7995-0905-4 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Fritz Cahn-Garnier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MARCHIVUM: street names, Cahn-Ganier-Ufer. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
  2. ^ W. Münkel: The cemeteries in Mannheim. SVA, 1992, p. 227.
personal data
SURNAME Cahn-Garnier, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (SPD), MdL, Lord Mayor of Mannheim
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1949
Place of death Mannheim