Hans Bremme

Hans Bremme (born June 14, 1898 in Barmen ; † June 3, 1970 in Wuppertal ) was a German lawyer and administrative officer. From 1945 to 1946 he was mayor and lord mayor and from 1946 to 1958 senior city director of the city of Wuppertal.

Life

Hans Bremme was born on June 14, 1898 in Barmen as the son of the owner of the Carl Bremme brewery Adolf Bremme (1859–1918) and his wife Laura, b. Hueck (1867–1929) born. After graduating from high school, he voluntarily took part in the First World War as a flag boy . After the end of the war he began studying law at the universities of Münster , Freiburg , Berlin and Bonn , which he completed in 1921 with an assessor and a doctorate (“The general criminal law provisions of the Reich Tax Code”) as a doctorate. jur. graduated from the University of Cologne .

He was married to Beate Bremme .

job

He began his administrative work as a "legal assistant" in the cities of Remscheid and Düsseldorf, in between he was provisional mayor of the city of Wermelskirchen for a few months in 1924 and was finally appointed councilor of his hometown Barmen on March 14, 1927. This office was transferred to him after the merging of the communities of Barmen and Elberfeld (1929) on December 1, 1931 for the newly formed city of Wuppertal. One of his main tasks was to provide legal support for the unification of the two cities. Over the next few years, Bremme also took over the departments of hospitals, police, taxation and welfare for the city of Wuppertal. These were withdrawn from him again in the town halls during the course of National Socialist rule, since his wife (Beate Bremme, née Engelbrecht) was considered a Jewish mongrel. However, he was able to continue his original job as town counsel until the end of the war.

On May 12, 1945, Bremme was appointed mayor of the city of Wuppertal by the British military government in the British zone of occupation and was appointed mayor on November 9, 1945. After the introduction of a new municipal code in North Rhine-Westphalia, he was elected senior city director on January 16, 1946 by the city council. He held this office until January 31, 1958. After leaving the service of the city of Wuppertal, Bremme became chief executive of the working group of the industrial research community in Cologne on February 1, 1958. He held this position until March 31, 1962. He then worked as a lawyer in Wuppertal until his death on June 3, 1970.

Honors

Hans Bremme received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany for his services. In 2006, his hometown Wuppertal named a street after him.

swell

• City Archives
• NRZ (Neue Rheinische Zeitung) from October 24, 1945
• Communication from the military government in Wuppertal dated November 10, 1945
• NRZ from January 3, 1946
• NRZ from January 19, 1946
• WR of January 24, 1948
• GA of January 15, 1958
• GA of June 14, 1968
• Who is who? 1970
• GA of March 13, 1952
• GA of June 4, 1970
• WR of June 4, 1970
• WZ dated October 5, 1982