Hermann Buchterkirchen
Hermann Buchterkirchen (born September 27, 1906 in Weimar , † 1983 ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was Lord Mayor of Weimar.
Life
Buchterkirchen, the son of a craftsman, worked as a master baker after completing an apprenticeship as a baker . In 1946 he joined the CDU. From September 1948 to March 1953 he was Lord Mayor of Weimar. Later he was chairman of the Erfurt District Chamber of Crafts , a member of the Erfurt District Assembly and a member of the CDU District Executive.
In 1959 Buchterkirchen received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.
Thomas Mann , who got to know Buchterkirchen on the occasion of the award of the Goethe Prize and honorary citizenship of the city of Weimar in 1949, wrote about him:
"I have come to appreciate the Lord Mayor of Weimar, Buchterkirchen, very much - a man who knows how to combine his undoubted loyalty to the new state with the attachment to - let me say: more conservative ideals."
literature
- Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 52.
- Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Part II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 36.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Mann: Travel Report [September 1949] . In: Thomas Neumann (Hrsg.): Sources for the history of Thuringia. Culture in Thuringia 1919–1949 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB). State center for political education. Erfurt 1998, ISBN 3-931426-23-8 , pp. 270-274 (here, p. 272)
Web links
- Photograph of the Buchterkirche on the side of the city of Weimar.
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SURNAME | Buchterkirchen, Hermann |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of Weimar |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1906 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
DATE OF DEATH | 1983 |