Hans Mantz

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Hans Mantz , actually Johann Nepomuk Mantz , (born June 29, 1872 in Ehingen (Danube) , † March 24, 1938 in Ravensburg ) was a German civil servant and politician ( center ). He was Lord Mayor of Ravensburg from 1922 to 1932 .

Life

Hans Mantz, son of the master tanner and farmer Paul Aloys Mantz from Ehingen, studied law and political science at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and the Humboldt University in Berlin . He was a member of the Catholic student union AV Guestfalia Tübingen in the CV . In 1898 he passed the higher service examination and entered the civil service. In 1919 he became a member of the government and in 1920 he became a senior government councilor. He was employed in the Stuttgart administration with agricultural policy and food production; from 1916 to 1922 responsible in particular for supplying the population with basic foodstuffs. The then labor and nutrition minister Wilhelm Keil described him as an “outstandingly capable administrative officer”.

In February 1922, Hans Mantz, candidate for the center , was elected to succeed the late Andreas Reichle as Lord Mayor of Ravensburg. He was mainly involved in expanding the infrastructure in Ravensburg, building roads, converting street lighting from gas to electricity, sewerage, improving the drinking water supply and expanding the slaughterhouse. During his tenure, 727 new apartments were built.

He was the first local politician in Württemberg to be involved in the preservation of monuments and to receive national recognition for the renovation and modernization of the historic weighing house and Gothic town hall.

After a defamation campaign controlled by the NSDAP, he was defeated on February 14, 1932 with a narrow election result (46.4% to 48.2% of the votes cast) to the engineer Rudolf Walzer , a representative of the Ravensburg Citizens' Association. The Völkischer Beobachter commented on the outcome of the election: “ In a joint front with our party comrades, the SA and SS victoriously defeated the center and Marxists in open battle. Instead of a bigwig, a front-line soldier who sacrificed his bones in the World War is now at the wheel of the city. “On May 3, 1932, he handed over the official business. In the history of the Nazi era in Ravensburg, Mantz was dubbed the “ first victim of National Socialism in Upper Swabia ”.

Mantz married Hildegard Felder (1877–1938) on May 28, 1900, the daughter of the Ehinger brewery owner and host August Felder. Their daughter Paula (1901–1951) was married to the architect Ludwig Hepperle; The Upper Swabian humorist Manfred Hepperle came from this marriage .

He is the namesake of Hans-Mantz-Straße in Ravensburg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kraus, Uwe: “From the center stronghold to the Nazi community. Rise and seizure of power by the National Socialists in Ravensburg between 1928 and 1935 ”, 2 volumes, Diss.-Druck Tübingen 1986
  2. ↑ a b c Schwäbische Zeitung: "OB Mantz: Tragische Gestalt der Stadtgeschichte", November 6, 1999
  3. ^ Veit Feger: "Memorial sheet for the Ehinger Hans Mantz", Schwäbische Zeitung, August 18, 1992
  4. ↑ Angele ancestral line Rißhöfen (branch XII 11 - Ingerkingen) , viewed on March 2, 2010
predecessor Office successor
Andreas Reichle Lord Mayor of Ravensburg
1922–1932 		Rudolf Waltz
personal data
SURNAME Mantz, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mantz, Johann Nepomuk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and politician, Lord Mayor of Ravensburg
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehingen (Danube)
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1938
Place of death Ravensburg