Hans Weisbrod (politician)

Hans Weisbrod (born October 25, 1889 in Kaiserslautern , † 1970 ) was a German politician and Lord Mayor of Kaiserslautern.

Life

After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , he joined the Bavarian army in 1908 and did active service there as a flag junior and officer. As a result of an accident in 1912, he resigned from the army and began studying law in the same year .

At the outbreak of the First World War , he interrupted his studies because he was called up again as an officer. After the end of the war, Weisbrod resumed his studies in 1918 and graduated in 1921 with the state examination and doctoral examination as Dr. jur. from. Due to the obligation to do military service , this was brought forward to 1917. In the same year he became a government assessor in Munich, then a district administrator in Pfarrkirchen. In this function he returned to Landau in the Palatinate in 1925 . In 1927 he was appointed legal counsel for the city of Kaiserslautern.

There he was elected mayor in May 1932. On April 4, 1933, the National Socialists dissolved all workers', cultural and sports associations and on April 27, at the first city council meeting after the seizure of power , the Social Democratic elected officials were chased out of the hall with the words "So get out of here ..." . Mayor Weisbrod, who could have prevented this, was silent, not only about the arbitrariness of the Nazis. In the following, he ingratiated himself with a speech in which the following sentence could be heard: “... This year our people are experiencing a spring that is unparalleled in history and it is as if nature wanted one March appeared full of light and warmth, compete with the blossoming in our hearts. ”Logically, he joined the storm department a short time later and immediately became a squad leader; Due to his "adaptability" he was able to remain mayor of Kaiserslautern until 1938 and only left his office on April 26, 1938, allegedly due to political differences. He left Kaiserslautern on June 22, 1938 and moved to Munich-Bogenhausen.

When the Second World War broke out , he was reactivated and served as an officer, most recently as a colonel, in the Wehrmacht High Command . After the end of the war and the associated dissolution of the Wehrmacht, he moved back to Munich and lived there with his unmarried sister until his death.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Annual report on the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1907/08.
2. ↑ Mayor of the City of Kaiserslautern from 1800 , City of Kaiserslautern
3. ↑ ^{a b} City of Kaiserslautern - Resistance and Nazi Terror , website of the VVN-BDA Kaiserslautern