Gustav Seebich

Gustav Seebich (born May 24, 1899 in Ebersbach an der Fils ; † August 31, 1985 there ) was a German local politician.

Life

Gustav Seebich studied at a higher administrative school and passed the state examination for senior administrative service in Stuttgart in 1921. In 1925, at the age of 25, he was elected the youngest mayor of Württemberg in his hometown . During the Nazi era and beyond (until 1947) he retained his position as mayor. Seebich was initially a member of the SPD , but he resigned from the SPD on the advice of the local party leadership and remained independent as a district administrator in the 1960s. However, on May 1, 1933, he applied for membership in the NSDAP, which was rejected by the NS-Gaugericht in 1935.

Seebich never left the Evangelical Church and worked closely with the local pastor and member of the Confessing Church , Hermann Diem .

He was friends with the mayor of Göppingen, Otto Hartmann, who was ousted from office by the Nazis in 1933 and who wrote about Gustav Seebich: “While fate has shown me the grace of not having to serve in a managerial position in the so-called Third Reich, Seebich was ahead in 1933 faced the difficult task of remaining at his post. He did justice to the task without harming his soul. "

At the end of March 1945, together with Hermann Kolb , he organized the handover of his hometown to the American troops without a fight.

From 1948 to 1966 he was district administrator for the district of Göppingen . In 1948 he became chairman of the Württemberg-Baden district council . Between 1952 and 1960 Seebich was President of the German District Assembly .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Munzinger Archive. Retrieved January 2, 2013 .