Gustav Lahmeyer (politician)

Gustav Lahmeyer (born July 7, 1889 in Kassel , † April 20, 1968 in Detmold ) was a German administrative lawyer and local politician ( DVP , NSDAP ). During the National Socialist era , he was Lord Mayor of Kassel from 1933 to 1945.

life and career

Lahmeyer was the son of Ludwig Lahmeyer, a student from Fulda. In 1908 he passed the Abitur at the grammar school in Fulda and studied law at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin and Marburg. In 1911 he passed the first state examination. He spent his legal clerkship at the OLG Kassel, AG Karlshafen and LG as well as the local public prosecutor's office in Kassel. In 1920 he passed the second state examination. He was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. In 1915 he married Helene Knöner. The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter.

In 1911/12 he did military service as a one-year volunteer . From 1914 to 1918 he participated in the war, most recently as a lieutenant. In 1920 he became an unskilled worker at the public prosecutor's office and shortly afterwards at the government in Kassel, where he became a government assessor on March 10, 1921. in the meantime he worked in the Ministry of Culture. After returning to the Kassel government in 1925, he became a member of the government.

He was elected to the magistrate of Kassel on July 13, 1925. From January 1, 1926, he worked as a city councilor and from October 1, 1926, he was mayor in a leading position in the city administration. In 1927 he became chairman of the Hessian-Waldeck Mountain Association . After the " seizure of power ", Lahmeyer joined the NSDAP in February 1933 ( membership number 1,687,722).

After the incumbent Lord Mayor Herbert Stadler was forced to resign by Roland Freisler using SA violence on March 24, 1933 , Lahmeyer was entrusted as Mayor by the District President with the continuation of the Lord Mayor's official business. On April 26, the city council elected him the new mayor.

After the beginning of the Second World War , the fifty-year-old Lahmeyer reported for military service as a former lieutenant in the reserve . He took part in combat operations in France, Russia and Romania and was most recently the commander of an artillery unit in the Caucasus. In October 1943 Lahmeyer became seriously ill and was transferred home for treatment. After his recovery he resumed official duties in his hometown , which was badly damaged in a bombing raid on October 22, 1943 .

His tenure ended when he was arrested on April 6, 1945 by US troops marching into Kassel. Nothing is known of its denazification .

After the end of the war, Lahmeyer moved to Detmold, where he worked as an employee in the main association of the German Youth Hostel Association from 1949 . From 1954 to 1960, Lahmeyer was a member of the Detmold City Council for the CDU and chairman of the supervisory board of the Lippische housing and settlement cooperative.

Awards

• EK 1 and 2
• Princely Waldeck Cross of Merit 4
• Wound Badge i. Sch
• War Merit Cross 2
• Cross of honor for front fighters
• Clasp to EK I and II
• Order of the Commander of Romania with swords on ribbon 4
• Madalia Cruziada Impotriva Communusmus
• Golden needle of the NS-Fliegercorps

literature

• Thomas Klein: Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945. (= Sources and research on Hessian history, 70; Ed. Hessische Historische Kommission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse), Darmstadt / Marburg 1988, ISBN 3-88443-159-5 , p. 161

Web links

• Mayor during the Nazi era: Gustaf Lahmeyer , near the city of Kassel
• Lahmeyer, Gustaf Eduard Hermann. Hessian biography. (As of February 20, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klein writes: in Roßleben
2. ^ "Occupation of the Kassel town hall and removal of the mayor by the SA, March 24, 1933". Contemporary history in Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).