Hellmut Neumann

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Hellmut Waldemar Neumann (born February 19, 1891 in Breslau ; † October 17, 1979 in Friedberg ) was a German lawyer , politician and Lord Mayor ( DDP , SPD , SED ) of Mühlhausen .

Life

Hellmut Neumann was born in 1891 as the son of the Breslau high school teacher and professor Wilhelm Neumann and his wife Elisabeth, née Macke. He visited after the elementary school , the high school . He then studied in Wroclaw Law and became a doctor of law doctorate . He worked as a lawyer in Breslau, Hirschberg and Mühlhausen. In 1919 he joined the German Democratic Party (DDP), which he later left. Since 1920 he was city ​​councilor of Mühlhausen and in 1925 was almost unanimously elected mayor by all parliamentary groups .

After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he was relieved of his office in 1933 and forcibly retired . Now he practiced as a lawyer in Erfurt and defended the politically persecuted . Because of his reduced pension payments, he litigated before the Supreme Court .

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, he briefly became the second mayor of Erfurt in June 1945 , but soon returned to Mühlhausen. From September 1945 he was again - this time with the mandate of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) mayor. In 1946 he was re-elected OB with a large majority with the mandate of the SED. On March 28, 1946, the founding meeting of the Kulturbund took place in Mühlhausen. Mayor Neumann gave a speech about the aims and tasks of the Kulturbund. With art and culture, the Kulturbund should contribute to democratic renewal and bring fascist ideas out of people's heads. Numerous Mühlhäuser registered themselves as members of the Kulturbund, and Dr. Neumann was elected 1st chairman. In July 1948, the SED state leadership demanded his resignation and offered him a position in the judiciary. Because he refused, he was expelled from the SED and lost his office again. In 1952 he left the GDR and worked for a few years as a department head in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior .

Honors

  • On May 19, 2008, the city council of Mühlhausen was given a bronze bust of the former mayor, which was placed in the newly designed meeting room of the city councilors in the bread arbor .
  • In October 2011 the OB-Neumann-Straße in Mühlhausen was named after him.

literature

  • Roswitha Henning: The Mühlhausen Mayors and Lord Mayors 1803 to 2012 , Mühlhausen Articles - Special Issue 24, 2012, ISBN 9783935547550 , p. 53 ff. & P. ​​69 ff.
  • Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 . Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 560

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wroclaw II registry office : birth register . No. 763/1891.
  2. ↑ Heinrich Jordan, Gunter Görner, Beate Kaiser (ed.): Chronicle of the city of Mühlhausen in Thuringia. Volume 5, Mühlhausen 2004, p. 347.
  3. ↑ http://www.iris-henning.de/2011-03-22-geschichte-und-geschichtchen/ Query June 1, 2011
  4. ↑ http://www.muehlhausen.de/scripts/angebote/1033?layout=2&jahr=38013  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 1, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.muehlhausen.de  
  5. ↑ http://www.dtoday.de/regionen/lokal-nachrichten_artikel,-%E2%80%9EOB-Neumann-Strasse%E2%80%9C-verbindet-Muehlhaeuser-Stadtviertel-ohne-Schranken-_arid,102590.html Retrieved August 7, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Hellmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann, Hellmut Waldemar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and mayor (DDP / SED) of Mühlhausen
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1979
Place of death Friedberg