Hermann Arendt

Hermann Arendt (born January 23, 1898 in Dingelstädt , Province of Saxony , † June 28, 1966 in Hemer , North Rhine-Westphalia ) was a German local politician ( SPD ). From 1946 to 1948 he was the first democratically elected mayor of the city of Hemer in North Rhine-Westphalia, which appointed him former mayor in January 1957 .

Hermann Arendt was politically active for the first time during the Weimar Republic when he was appointed to the Hemeraner Workers 'and Peasants' Council in 1918 . In the municipal election on March 2, 1919, he moved into the municipal council via the “Apel” electoral list. Five years later he stood as the top candidate for the list of "United Workers" in the municipal council election on May 4, 1924. This association of socialist parties and politicians had eight seats, while the bourgeois unity list received ten seats. At the same time, Arendt became a member of the official meeting of the Office Hemer . On November 17, 1929, he led the SPD as the top candidate in the local council election, in which his party was the second strongest party with a 17 percent share of the vote. He was also re-elected to the official assembly. The trained former led the SPD in the last election of the municipal councils after the seizure of power on March 12, 1933 , in which his party received 10.7 percent of the vote. Even before the SPD was finally banned in June 1933, Arendt had left the municipal council.

In 1945, Hermann Arendt was a member of the first Hemeran community committee after the end of the Second World War and, from the end of 1945, was also a member of the successor body of “Nominated Representative Councils”. On September 15, 1946, he was also elected to the first freely elected municipal assembly of the city of Hemer as the SPD representative, which appointed him mayor in the constituent meeting. The SPD had moved into the assembly as the strongest parliamentary group with 13 seats. In the following local elections in October 1948, the Social Democrats lost this majority, so that Arendt had to surrender his office to CDU member Rudolf Maiworm .

Awards

• 1956: Honorary member of the Hemer Association of Citizens and Homeland Associations
• 1957: Former mayor of the city of Hemer

In addition, the Arbeiterwohlfahrt has named a retirement home in Hemer after Hermann Arendt.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Citizens and homeland association Hemer eV (ed.): The key. Issue 4/1957.
2. ^ Hans-Hermann Stopsack: From the office to the city. Self-published, Hemer 2000.