Herbert Meyer (politician)
Herbert Meyer (born February 19, 1899 in Bad Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains ; † February 13, 1984 ibid) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and local politician ( NSDAP , FDP ). He was u. a. Lord Mayor of Mühlhausen / Thuringia (1934–1943) and Nordhausen (1943–1945).
Life
Herbert Meyer came as the son of the rector Hermann Meyer (1876–1954) and his wife Gretchen, b. Schlösser (1876–1949), born in Bad Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains, attended elementary and secondary school there, then the secondary school in Goslar and passed the Abitur in 1917. During the First World War he served in the field artillery in Regiment 102 and was wounded. After 1918 Meyer took part in the fighting of the Hessian-Thuringian Freikorps.
From 1919 to 1921 he studied law and economics at the University of Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1922. jur. received his doctorate. Meyer received his practical training in the judicial service from 1922 to 1924. In the following year he passed the major legal state examination in the Ministry of Justice in Berlin and began his communal work as an assessor at the city administration in Bad Lauterberg, then a court assessor in Saarbrücken . In 1927 he moved to Olbernhau in the Ore Mountains as a town councilor . He was elected second mayor of the city of Prenzlau in 1928 . There he provided the first mayor from 1929 to 1934. A highlight of his tenure was the 700th anniversary celebration in Prenzlau. After moving the Prenzlau garrison to Neuruppin , he tried to revive the economy of his city. So he achieved the establishment of a flight test institute and an airfield (later the Air Force Air Base). Meyer, who is considered conservative, joined the NSDAP and SS in March 1933 . After a dispute with District Administrator Silvio Conti , who accused him of political opportunism, Meyer was forced into retirement in September 1934.
By decree of the Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior, he was appointed Lord Mayor of Mühlhausen in Thuringia with effect from December 3, 1934 . His inauguration by the District President Friedrich Bachmann took place on December 10, 1934. In this function he was active until May 8, 1943, with interruptions due to renewed conscription for military service (1940/42). From the beginning of 1940 he also represented the district administrator of the district of Mühlhausen i. Th. And was head of the Rotkreuz district office and air raid protection.
Herbert Meyer was Lord Mayor of Nordhausen am Harz from May 9, 1943 until it was occupied by the US Army on April 11, 1945 . In the short term of office, the supply of the population, the construction of air raids and the accommodation of evacuees and refugees were the biggest problems. Under his direction, a book of honor was to be created for all Nordhäuser who fell in World War II; up to the beginning of 1945 about 500 dead were recorded by name. One day before the occupation of the city, he called for resistance against the approaching US army and set off in the direction of the Harz fortress . A little later he was arrested by the Americans and taken to the West when they withdrew. On September 25, 1945 he was officially dismissed as a civil servant by the State Office of the Interior of Thuringia on the basis of the "Law on the Purification of Public Administration from Nazi Elements" of July 23, 1945.
As a "Nazi activist", he had to answer in front of Spruchkammer 74 of the Ludwigsburg-Ossweil internment camp . After his release on April 3, 1948 from the Staumühle internment camp between Bielefeld and Paderborn in the British occupation zone, he returned to his home town of Bad Lauterberg and worked as a freelance councilor from 1951 to 1953.
In Bad Lauterberg, Meyer served as honorary mayor for the FDP in 1952/53 , and he was elected to the district council of the district of Osterode am Harz . For ten years (from January 1, 1954 to February 29, 1964) he was city and spa director in Bad Lauterberg, in the following years he was still a member of the Bad Lauterberg City Council.
Meyer and his wife Edelgard, b. Lohse (married on July 20, 1929 in Olbernhau), had two sons.
literature
- Peter Kuhlbrodt : Nordhausen under the stars and stripes (= series of publications on local history research by the Nordhausen City Archives, Harz ; No. 7). Archives of the city of Nordhausen, Nordhausen 1995.
- Klaus Neitmann , Winfried Schich (ed.): History of the city of Prenzlau (= individual publications of the Brandenburg Historical Commission, Volume 16). Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2009, ISBN 978-3-86595-290-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Neitmann (ed.): History of the city of Prenzlau . Horb am Neckar: Geiger, 2009. p. 248.
- ^ City archive Nordhausen: Chronicle of the city of Nordhausen. 1802 to 1889. Horb am Neckar: Geiger, 2003. p. 395.
- ^ Peter Kuhlbrodt: Nordhausen under the stars and stripes , Nordhausen: Archives of the city of Nordhausen, 1995. p. 10
Carl Contag (1899–1924) | Curt Baller (1924–1933) | Heinz Sting (1933–1935) | Johannes Meister (1935–1942) | Herbert Meyer (1943–1945) | Otto Flagmeyer (1945) | Richard Senger (1945) | Karl Schultes (1945–1946) | Hans Himmler (1946–1952) | Alfred Meyer (1952–1953) | Heinz Andree (1953–1957) | Friedrich Giessner (1957–1963) | Kurt Juch (1963–1973) | Fritz Lande (1973–1981) | Herbert Otto (1981–1985) | Peter Heiter (1985–1990) | Olaf Dittmann (1990) | Manfred Schröter (1990–1994) | Barbara Rinke (1994–2012) | Klaus Zeh (2012–2017) | Kai Buchmann (since 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, administrative officer and politician (NSDAP, FDP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1984 |
| Place of death | Bad Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains |