Fritz Neuhäusser

Fritz Neuhäußer (born May 13, 1877 in Radeberg ; † April 29, 1939 in Bielefeld ) was a German lawyer and long-time mayor of the East Westphalian city ​​of Bad Oeynhausen .

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Fritz Neuhäußer was born in Radeberg on May 13, 1877 as the son of Franz Neuhäußer, paymaster in the Saxon army, and his wife Felicie Sidonie Margaretha, née. Kirsten, born. After finishing school in Dresden , he attended the Protestant grammar school in Strasbourg from 1887 to 1893 up to the one-year examination and then the Thomas grammar school in Leipzig , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1896. He then did his one year military service in Leipzig.

From 1897 to 1900 he studied law and economics at the Universities of Leipzig and Munich and passed the first state examination with the grade “good” in Leipzig in July 1900; the second examination followed in 1903. He then joined the assessor into the police station of Leipzig and in 1905 the Council Assessor in building inspection office in Chemnitz .1906 he received his doctorate in Leipzig " cum laude " for Doctor of Law . In the same year he married Dora Esch, with whom he had a daughter and a son.

From May 1907 Fritz Neuhäußer held the office of mayor of Bad Oeynhausen, which at that time belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia . In December 1910 he also became a member of the district council of the Minden district and in July 1911 the supervisory board of the Minden-Ravensberg electricity works (EMR) . During the First World War he did military service in the Royal Saxon Army from August 1914 to May 1916 , most recently in the rank of captain . During his absence from Bad Oeynhausen, the official business was led by his deputy, the alderman Paul Baehr . In May 1918 Neuhäußer was re-elected for a further twelve-year term, with a third re-election in 1930.

After the death of his first wife Dora in 1923, he married his second wife Hildegard Soest (1890–1981) in 1927; this marriage remained childless. During the Weimar Republic he joined the right-wing liberal DVP ; his understanding of office was nevertheless not shaped by party politics.

After the " seizure of power " he was left in office by the NSDAP . However, after struggling with health problems for many years, he himself applied for early retirement in the summer of 1933, which was granted to him on October 1, 1933. His application from March 1934 to be reinstated as mayor was rejected by Minden's district president Adolf von Oeynhausen . In November 1934, Neuhäußer was reactivated and appointed as a financial auditor at the municipal auditing office of the Minden government.

Fritz Neuhäußer died of heart disease on April 29, 1939 in the Bielefeld City Hospital. In 1953, the Dr. Neuhäusser Strasse named after him.

Awards

• Iron Cross
• Knight's Cross of the Saxon Order of Albrecht 1st class

literature

• Rico Quaschny: Dr. Fritz Neuhäußer (1877–1939). In: Contributions to the local history of the cities of Löhne and Bad Oeynhausen. Issue 21, Bielefeld 2010, pp. 141-184.