Heinrich Bartholomäus
Johann Heinrich Bartholomäus (born April 1, 1900 in Eschwege ; † January 2, 1960 in Gießen ) was a German locksmith and foreman, politician of the NSDAP and from 1934 to 1945 mayor of the city of Worms .
Life
Bartholomäus was born in Eschwege as the son of a shoemaker. After he became unemployed in 1930, he joined the NSDAP in March 1931. As a result, he was active as a gau speaker for the NSDAP in Hesse . At about the same time he wrote the two plays Work, Service, Duty! and the meaning of life .
Bartholomäus became first honorary, then provisional and finally, since May 1, 1934, elected alderman in Gießen in 1933 . Among other things, the Stadttheater Gießen was part of his area of responsibility .
At the instigation of the Hessian Gauleiter Jakob Sprenger , Bartholomäus was commissioned on August 25, 1934 by the State Ministry of the People's State of Hesse to manage the official business of the Mayor of Worms. On September 3, 1934, he succeeded Gustav Adolf Körbel as acting mayor . Bartholomäus' official election by the city council, albeit the result already established , was carried out on January 30, 1935, the so-called day of the national uprising , and immediately afterwards he was sworn in in the presence of District Director Otto Schwebel and Gauleiter Jakob Sprenger. In his speech, which was presumably edited by Worms city archivist Friedrich Maria Illert , Sprenger addressed the current problems of the city of Worms.
Bartholomäus kept the office of Lord Mayor until the end of the Second World War . In the literature on the history of the city of Worms, it is said that Bartholomew was not particularly popular. He was considered vain and hardly up to the tasks assigned to him. A few days before the city of Worms was occupied by American troops on March 21, 1945, Bartholomäus fled across the Rhine to Ried in Hesse , where he set up a court martial on March 20, 1945 in Bobstadt .
After denazification , Bartholomäus worked for Oculus Optikgeräte GmbH in Wetzlar-Dutenhofen. He died in Gießen in 1960.
Works
- Work, service, duty! (Play)
- The meaning of life - drama in 5 pictures (time of action 1924–1928)
literature
- Gerold Bönnen : History of the city of Worms . 2nd Edition. Theiss , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 .
Web links
- Bartholomäus, Heinrich. Hessian biography (as of February 22, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 22, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Bookhagen: The Protestant Child Care and the Inner Mission in the Time of National Socialism - Retreat into the Room of the Church, Volume 2, 1937-1945 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-525-55730-3 , p. 958 .
- ↑ a b c d Gerold Bönnen: History of the city of Worms . 2nd Edition. Theiss , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 584 f .
- ↑ Exhibition commemorates Nazi victims at the city theater. In: Gießener Allgemeine. November 9, 2012, accessed February 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Gerold Bönnen: History of the City of Worms . 2nd Edition. Theiss , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 605 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bartholomäus, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bartholomäus, Johann Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP) and Lord Mayor of Worms |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eschwege |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd January 1960 |
| Place of death | to water |