Georg Lindemann (politician)

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Georg Lindemann (born June 25, 1885 in Hanover ; † October 29, 1961 ibid) was a social-democratic municipal official , lawyer , city ​​councilor , mayor and city ​​director . It was during the Weimar Republic, the only full-time active SPD - Senator in Hanover, but was in 1933 due to the " Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil dismissed".

Life

Georg Lindemann was born during the German Empire in the capital of the then Prussian province of Hanover, the son of a bookseller . After completing his Abitur at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium , Lindemann studied law and political science from 1904 to 1907, initially at the University of Marburg and the University of Göttingen , and passed his state legal examination on July 6, 1912 in Berlin . During his studies, he became in 1904 a member of the fraternity Arminia Marburg and the fraternity of the North German .

After his studies, Lindenmann settled as a lawyer in his hometown of Hanover and founded a joint law firm with Georg Lenzberg and Paul Siegel on January 1, 1913 .

At the First World War, George Lindemann participated as a soldier in part. In November 1918, during the November Revolution , he was first elected to the Soldiers' Council at the General Command , "then elected to the central Hanoverian Workers' and Soldiers' Council," where he met Robert Leinert , among others .

In the newly founded Weimar Republic, Lindenmann started as a legal assistant in the city ​​administration of Hanover on January 20, 1919 , but was elected a few months later on June 4, 1919 as the city's " paid senator", responsible for the areas of economy and nutrition , Market affairs as well as for urban land and goods. On July 1, 1919, Lindemann, who initially retained his mandate as a district councilor , joined the SPD.

After the German hyperinflation and at the end of the so-called " Golden Twenties ", the SPD won the local elections in 1929, the year of the Great Depression

“Her best result to date with 48.6% of the vote [...]. This ensured that the SPD took the grievance that this clear result was not reflected in the city administration as an opportunity to break the so-called "Senatorial dispute" by removing the long vacant positions of the 2nd mayor and three senators at a meeting of the Members of the senior citizen college were filled by election, but without taking into account the magistrate's right of nomination . As a result, Lindemann was finally elected 2nd Mayor of Hanover on June 14, 1930. "

Georg Lindemann served as second mayor for a good three years. After the National Socialists seized power , however, he was dismissed in accordance with sections 4 and 7 of the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” of April 7, 1933. Lindemann was the only member of the Hanoverian magistrate who, as a political opponent of the National Socialists , lost his office and his legally guaranteed pension entitlement in this way .

Towards the end of the Second World War , Georg Lindemann was appointed mayor on May 7, 1945 with the consent of the British military government , who now had to manage a city that had been almost 50 percent destroyed by the previous air raids on Hanover . Even before the currency reform in 1948 and the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, Lindemann was appointed city director on November 9, 1947 , a few weeks after the first "Export Fair" , with reference to civil service . As such, Lindemann was initially responsible for the Hanoverian economy, nutrition and culture, and later also for urban health and social services.

Georg Lindemann took on numerous honorary positions and held numerous supervisory board mandates. His saying has been passed down in culture: “No experiments and literary speculation that is alien to life”. Nevertheless, Lindemann has made a special contribution to the reorganization of both the Hanoverian and German theaters .

Honors

literature

Web links

  • Lars Kelich: Georg Lindemann on the side of the SPD city association Hanover

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l LINDEMANN ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Capital function (s). In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 274
  4. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 297.
  5. ↑ a b c d Lars Kelich: Georg Lindemann (see under the section Web Links )
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Robert Leinert. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 397
  7. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Second World War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 694
  8. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Hanover - H.-Messe. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 255f.
  9. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Lindemannallee. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 161
personal data
SURNAME Lindemann, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, November revolutionary, Nazi victim, mayor and city director
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1961
Place of death Hanover