Hermann Bitter (politician, 1893)

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Hermann Bitter around 1945

Hermann Bitter (born October 2, 1893 in Brackwede , † April 3, 1945 in Bielefeld ) was the last NSDAP mayor of Brackwede.

Life

Hermann Bitter was born as the son of the file manufacturer Wilhelm Bitter. He spent his childhood in Brackwede near Bielefeld. He attended the III. Citizen school (Lönkert school) up to the age of 14, followed by training in the parents' company. After learning bookkeeping and general commercial activities, he took part in the First World War as a field artilleryman from December 1914 to mid-1918. He then worked as a warehouse clerk in the Krupp company's steel warehouse . After the end of the war, he joined his father's company and took it over after the death of his father in 1925 until bankruptcy in 1929 as a result of the global economic crisis.

On November 19, 1920 Hermann Bitter married his wife Berta, b. Bremer. From this marriage there were 2 daughters (Elvira, born in 1926 and Sigrid, born in 1931).

He joined the NSDAP on September 1, 1930. From October 1, 1930, Bitter took over the role of local group leader in Brackwede and was elected as the community leader after the local election on April 7, 1933. On June 3 of the same year, Bitter was installed as acting mayor. He was sworn in in this office in 1934 with the title "Community Schulze", from January 8, 1935 the official title was "First Alderman" and from 1939 Bitter carried the title " Mayor ".

fate

On April 2, 1945 (Easter Monday), Hermann Bitter went to an anti-tank barrier that had been erected in front of the advancing American troops on Gütersloher Strasse in order to have it opened and to hand over Brackwede without a fight. Thereupon, since he could not produce a written order, he was arrested by the combat commandant of the Wehrmacht (Major Martin) and brought to Bielefeld with his deputy Adolf Tjaden in the Sedan bunker on today's Weißenburger Strasse. On April 3rd, Bitter was brought before a court martial, which declared that it was not responsible because Hermann Bitter was a civilian. He was shot on the same day at 10 a.m. by an SA Obersturmführer and three Volkssturm men on the orders of the NSDAP district leader Gustav Reineking in a forest protection area in Sieker and buried there.

On April 4, 1945, American troops captured Brackwede after brief skirmishes.

literature

  • Karl Beckmann, Rolf Künnemeyer: 1151 - 2001 Brackwede - Stations in an 850-year history. 2001, ISBN 3-9803990-7-9 .
  • Alexander Gruber: Bitter.Brackwede & Feuerende: Two pieces: Twice Bielefeld on the stage , Pendragon Bielefeld 2013. Restricted full view Google-Book
  • 800 years of Brackwede: Festschrift . Editing Karl Triebold, municipal administration, Brackwede (Bielefeld district) 1951, without ISBN.
  • Hermann Stumpf: Bielefeld in those days. A picture of the times by Hermann Stumpf. Westfalen-Zeitung Bielefeld, approx. 1955, pp. 62–65 

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handwritten curriculum vitae, archive of Heimathaus Brackwede
  2. ↑ Party membership number 294175
  3. ^ Certificate of appointment dated June 2, 1939, archives of Heimathaus Brackwede
  4. ↑ Bernd J. Wagner: October 2, 1893: The future mayor Hermann Bitter was born in Brackwede. In: Historical RückKlick. Bielefeld City Archives , 2018, accessed on February 27, 2019 .
  5. ^ Free Press of March 17, 1949: Execution of the mayor in the Teutoburg Forest
  6. ^ Neue Westfälische of April 9, 1985: Mayor Bitter saved Brackwede
  7. ↑ Karl Triebold (editor-in-chief), 800 years Brackwede , 1951, p. 164
personal data
SURNAME Bitter, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Brackwede
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Brackwede
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1945
Place of death Bielefeld