Heinrich Brechling

Heinrich Brechling (born January 3, 1897 in Berlin , † December 2, 1959 in Hamburg ; full name: Heinrich Friedrich Richard Brechling ) was a German lawyer and mayor of Wismar ( SPD ).

biography

Brechling studied law a . a. at the University of Heidelberg and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . From 1927 to 1929 he was an assessor at the Finsterwalde magistrate . From August 1929 to March 8, 1933 he was mayor of Wismar. As a Social Democrat he was removed from this office by the National Socialists due to massive pressure from the SA and he had to leave Wismar. He was then an auditor at Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG . From 1939 to 1945 he had to serve as a soldier in World War II . After the war he was initially a lawyer in Berlin and from 1951 a business lawyer in Hamburg.

Honors

• 2008: Stolperstein in Wismar

Works

• The immunity according to the valid rights of the Reich and Prussia . Dissertation, Heidelberg 1927.

literature

• Michael Buddrus : Mecklenburg in the Second World War . Edition Temmen , Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8378-4000-1 .
• Brechling, Dr. Heinrich Friedrich Richard , In: Michael Buddrus: The cities of Mecklenburg in the Third Reich: a handbook on urban development under National Socialism, supplemented by a biographical encyclopedia of the mayors, city councilors and councilors. Bremen: Ed. Temmen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8378-4029-2 , pp. 526-527

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wismar newspaper of March 7, 2013: How the Nazis in Wismar showed their understanding of democracy. 80 years ago Alfred Pleuger chased the SPD mayor out of office . [1] (PDF; 11.8 MB)