Hans Lohmeyer

Hans Lohmeyer (left) with Hans Baluschek (1931)

Hans Lohmeyer (born June 23, 1881 in Thorn ; † February 28, 1968 in Berlin ) was a German administrative lawyer .

Life

Hans Lohmeyer 1930

Lohmeyer studied law and political science at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Breslau . In 1900 he became a member of the Teutonia Freiburg fraternity . He started out as a partner in a law firm. 1914-1919, he served as councilor in Schöneberg near Berlin operates 1919-1933 as mayor in Konigsberg. Pr. During his term of office the establishment of the Ostmesse , the construction of the Königsberg main station and the airport Devau fell . Lohmeyer was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council from 1921 to 1932 and was deputy representative of East Prussia in the Reich Council . From 1931 Lohmeyer was married to the actress Gerda Müller .

After the National Socialist German Workers' Party won the Reichstag elections in March 1933 , Lohmeyer was suspended from the office of mayor and retired. From then on he lived in Berlin-Westend, Stallupöner Allee 17, and dealt with local science and contemporary history topics. Because of his 1939 published work The Politics of the Second Reich 1870-1918 he was banned from publication . Through Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , who was second mayor in Königsberg from 1920 to 1930, he had contact with the circle from the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 . After the attack, he was questioned but not arrested.

He was already involved in the Evangelical Church in Königsberg . In the post-war period in Germany he was a member of the Synods of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1951 he was a co-founder and until 1963 chairman of the Association for Municipal Sciences .

Hans Lohmeyer died on February 28, 1968 at the age of 86 in Berlin. The burial took place on March 7, 1968 in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in today's Berlin-Westend district. The grave has not been preserved.

Works

• Centralism or self-government. A contribution to constitutional and administrative reform . Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag , Berlin 1928, IV, 87 pp.
• The Politics of the Second Reich 1870–1918 . 2 volumes. Berlin: Neff, Volume 1: 1939, 555 p .; Volume 2: 1939, 578 pp.
• The municipal establishments . Koenigsberg 1924
• Review of my tenure , 1957
• My years in Königsberg , 1961

literature

• Bauwelt (magazine) , issue 2/1925, p. 28.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 309-311.
• Ludwig Luckemeyer:  Lohmeyer, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 133 ( digitized version ).
• Eckert Vogel: The Lord Mayor of Königsberg, Dr. Hans Lohmeyer in memory . Königsberger Bürgerbrief 65 (2005), p. 59 f.
• Hans Lohmeyer , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 37/1956 of September 3, 1956, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• Association for Local Science V.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary in the Ostpreussenblatt , issue of March 9, 1968, page 19 (PDF).
2. ↑ Königsberger Bürgerbrief XVII (1980), p. 38
3. ^ Obituary in the Ostpreussenblatt , issue of March 16, 1968, page 5 (PDF)
4. ↑ Obituary in the Ostpreussenblatt . March 9, 1968. p. 19.
5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 490.