Gustav Mayer-Dinkel

Gustav Mayer-Dinkel (born September 7, 1853 in Mannheim ; † April 13, 1937 there ) was a German businessman and local politician.

Life

Gustav Mayer-Dinkel was the son of Salomon Mayer (1819–1898) and his wife Fanny, geb. Dinkelspiel (1822–1888). In 1896, his father added the shortened form of his wife's maiden name to his name and called himself Mayer-Dinkel from then on. Gustav became a timber merchant and co-owner of a Mannheim timber business. In 1881 he married Rosa Mayer-Brass (1862–1922). The marriage resulted in two sons.

Politically, Mayer-Dinkel joined the National Liberal Party , for which he was active in local politics. From 1887 he was a member of the Mannheim Citizens' Committee. He belonged to the inner circle around the party leader Ernst Bassermann . At the age of 60, he took part in the First World War as a captain from 1914 and became the leader of a convalescent company in Mannheim. After the death of Ernst Bassermann in 1917, Mayer-Dinkel became chairman of the Mannheim local association of the National Liberals, and from 1919 of the German Democratic Party.

In 1927, on Mayer-Dinkel's 40th anniversary as a city councilor, he was awarded the Mannheim City Medal of Honor and a silver laurel wreath. Two years later he resigned from the citizens' committee. After 1933 he was exposed to National Socialist repression. His older son Leopold (1883-1967) had to give up his business and emigrated to the USA with his family in 1936. Mayer-Dinkel died in 1937 and was buried next to his wife in the Mannheim Jewish cemetery.

literature

• Karl Otto Watzinger: History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650-1945 with 52 biographies , 2nd edition, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1987 (publications of the Mannheim City Archives; 12), pp. 126–127.