Hans Löffler (politician)

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Grave in the main cemetery in Würzburg

Hans Löffler (born June 22, 1872 in Karlstadt ; † September 7, 1955 in Würzburg ) was a German administrative lawyer and local politician. He was Lord Mayor of the City of Würzburg from 1921 to 1933 and from 1946 to 1948 .

Life

Hans Löffler attended the "Alte Gymnasium" in Würzburg and then studied law and political science at the Julius Maximilians University . In 1892 he joined the Corps Bavaria here . After taking the Bavarian state examination for the higher judicial and administrative service, he became a legal advisor in Würzburg in 1899 and was appointed city police officer before 1914. During the First World War he was responsible for the administration of the war economy. In April 1919, Löffler was one of the hostages taken by the Revolutionary Labor Committee of the Würzburg Soviet Republic . On June 24, 1919, Löffler (as a member of the left-wing liberal DDP and successor to Hofrat Bernhard Brand) was elected second legally qualified mayor in Würzburg and thus Andreas Grieser's first deputy .

On February 13, 1921, supported by all the bourgeois parties, he became the first legally qualified mayor of the city of Würzburg in a direct popular vote with 10,758 of 10,769 votes (on October 17, 1922, renamed mayor ). He received an honorary doctorate from the Würzburg Medical Faculty for years of negotiations that he had already carried out before, which enabled the construction of the Luitpold Hospital and its completion in 1921. On October 31, 1930, he was unanimously re-elected as Lord Mayor. After the so-called National Socialist seizure of power , Löffler refused to raise the swastika flag on March 9, 1933, as requested by Gauleiter Otto Hellmuth and district manager Theo Memmel. In the same year, after the leave of absence granted by District President Bruno Günder on March 23, Hans Löffler, as well as the Deputy Mayor Julius Zahn, who, like Löffler, was politically close to the BVP , was unanimously decided by the City Council on April 27, 1933 with effect from April 1 May 1933, which both had applied for under pressure from the SA in April. He lived on the Chiemsee until the collapse of the Nazi dictatorship. In 1945 he became commissioner for the reconstruction of the government of Lower Franconia. He joined the CSU . He withdrew his candidacy for the mayoral election of 1945 and Michael Meisner from the WWW (Wahlgemeinschaft Wiederaufbau Würzburg) held the office until July 1945. From August 16, 1946 to June 30, 1948, Löffler was once again elected as successor to Meisner and, in contrast to Meisner, he got along well with the military government of Würzburg. For reasons of age he resigned on June 30, 1948 from his office. On July 1, 1948, Hermann Hagen, a lecturer at the TH Karlsruhe, was elected as Löffler's successor, but he was unable to take up the office of mayor due to illness.

Löffler's political achievements included housing construction, the expansion of Stadtwerke Würzburg after the First World War and the incorporation of Heidingsfeld, as well as the completion of the Luitpold Hospital in 1921, which was made possible by years of negotiations, and participation in the founding of the Neue Würzburger Straßenbahnen GmbH on June 5th 1924, in which the city had a 60 percent stake. He sponsored the Mozart Festival, initiated the establishment of the municipal public library and organized the Walther von der Vogelweide celebration of the city of Würzburg on May 10, 1930 .

Löffler was a long-time member of the finance and personnel committee of the Bavarian Association of Cities, a member of the Bavarian savings bank organization and a member of the district council of Lower Franconia. Until 1933 he was a member of the supervisory board of Kreis-Elektrizitätsversorgungs AG, which he was instrumental in founding and which later became the Lower Franconia overland plant .

Awards

  • In 1921 the University of Würzburg awarded Hans Löffler the honorary doctorate of Dr. med. hc
  • In 1925 the state board of the United Aviation Associations of Bavaria awarded him honorary membership
  • In 1927 the University of Würzburg made him an honorary member and in 1932 an honorary senator.
  • In 1947, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Würzburg.
  • In 1952, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, he was awarded the golden city plaque of the city of Würzburg and the Federal Cross of Merit.
  • After his death, a street in the Würzburg Keesburgsiedlung and in Dettelbach was named after him.

literature

  • Löffler, Hans. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1147.
  • Daniel Gerken: The self-government of the city of Würzburg in the Weimar Republic and the "Third Reich" . Schöningh, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-87717-835-5 .
  • Matthias Lermann: The Mayor of Würzburg Dr. Hans Loeffler. Civic Ethics and Liberalism . Ed .: Society for Franconian History. WiKomm Verlag, Stegaurach 2015, ISBN 978-3-86652-052-3 .
  • Matthias Lermann: Hans Löffler (1872–1955). City citizen and city father . In: Society for Fränkische Geschichte (Ed.): Fränkische Lebensbilder. New series of CVs from Franconia . tape 24 . Society for Franconian History, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86652-724-9 , p. 227 .
  • Matthias Stickler : Dr. hc Hans Löffler - corps student, democratic politician and mayor - a Würzburg life picture. In: Tempora mutantur et nos? Festschrift for Walter M. Brod on his 95th birthday. With contributions from friends, companions and contemporaries. Edited by Andreas Mettenleiter , Akamedon, Pfaffenhofen 2007 (= From Würzburg's City and University History , 2), ISBN 3-940072-01-X , pp. 251-256.
  • Matthias Stickler: New beginning and continuity: Würzburg in the Weimar Republic. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007, pp. 177-195 and 1268-1271; here: pp. 185–191.
  • Harm-Hinrich Brandt : Würzburg local politics 1869-1918. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), pp. 64-166 and 1254-1267; here: pp. 113–119.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 138 , 528
  2. ↑ Harm-Hinrich Brandt (2007), pp. 114 and 119.
  3. ^ Matthias Stickler: New Beginning and Continuity: Würzburg in the Weimar Republic. P. 187.
  4. ^ Matthias Stickler: New Beginning and Continuity: Würzburg in the Weimar Republic. Pp. 182, 186 f. and 190 and p. 1270, note 55.
  5. ^ Matthias Stickler: Dr. hc Hans Löffler - corps student, democratic politician and mayor - a Würzburg life picture. , Pp. 251-253.
  6. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 196-289 and 1271-1290; here: p. 199.
  7. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". 2007, p. 203 f.
  8. ↑ Ulrich Wagner: Würzburg rulers, Bavarian minister-presidents, chairmen of the district council / district council presidents, regional presidents, bishops, lord mayors 1814–2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1221-1224; here: p. 1223 f. and 1379, note 15.
  9. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1241.
  10. ↑ Rolf-Ulrich Kunze : Würzburg 1945-2004. Reconstruction, modern city. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume III (2007), Pp. 318-346 and 1292-1295; here: p. 330.
  11. ^ Matthias Stickler: Dr. hc Hans Löffler - corps student, democratic politician and mayor - a Würzburg life picture. , P. 253.
  12. ↑ Matthias Stickler: New beginning and continuity. P. 189 f.
  13. ↑ Matthias Stickler: New beginning and continuity [...]. , P. 187 f.
  14. ↑ Matthias Stickler: New beginning and continuity [...]. P. 188.
personal data
SURNAME Löffler, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlstadt
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1955
Place of death Wurzburg