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 @1@ 2 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.

personal data
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

[1] 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 @1@ 2 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)