Hermann Schmidhäusler

Hermann Schmidhäusler (born April 26, 1875 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † August 15, 1963 there ; full name: Hermann Eduard Schmidhüßler ) was a German architect , construction officer , alderman and local politician .

Youth and education

The Protestant Hermann Schmidhäusler was born as the son of the innkeeper Matthäus Schmidhäusler, who was born in Holzkirch , and Christina Margaretha Schmidhäusler, born in Klein-Eislingen . Scheer was born in Gmünd in Württemberg . His parents moved from Göppingen to Gmünd with two children in 1874 . After attending secondary school, Hermann Schmidhüßler first studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Stuttgart and possibly finished his studies at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , where he lived in 1908. During his studies in 1896 he became a member of the Ghibellinia fraternity in Stuttgart . After passing the second state examination , he was appointed government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration).

Civil servant and mayor

In August 1908 Schmidhäusler's previous election as salaried alderman of the city of Moers was confirmed by the highest authority . Although he had been elected by the city council for the legal period of 12 years, he left Moers as early as 1913. During this short period of time, he developed as a technical councilor a. a. In 1909 the "sketch of the new district in the south and the new city park". The controversial expansion of the city at the time also included the creation of a residential area for high demands and a park of 30 hectares . In July 1913 Schmidhüßler was appointed to the judges' committee for the “Competition for preliminary designs for the reconstruction of the Neumarkt in Moers”. And in February 1914 he was again a member of a jury as an alderman for the city of Moers, in the competition for “Drafts for a ballroom and a youth center”, in both competitions Carl Rehorst and Georg Metzendorf judged at his side .

Schmidhäusler held the position of the technical assistant and town planning councilor in Solingen until his expulsion from office following the seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933. From April 1, 1928 to April 1, 1930, in addition to his full-time work, he was temporarily appointed to the The office of Lord Mayor was transferred to succeed August Dicke , who retired due to old age . Politically, however, he was isolated in Solingen after he wanted to offset the city's desolate budget, which was in a desolate state due to falling tax revenues and increasing welfare spending, with a bank loan: the bank made the condition to increase taxes and energy prices. When the cover bill was put to the vote in the city council, Schmißhäuer was the only one to vote for it. Towards the end of 1929 the city council had refused to support him and, against his will, approved the payment of a Christmas allowance to the needy for whom there was no money in the city purse. When the fronts hardened after the election of Hermann Weber as the new mayor of the city, he tried to mediate between left and bourgeois parties, but in vain.

The DC circuit in his respective officers-Wohnungsbauverein Solingen eGmbH remained Schmißhäußler in the decisive meeting of 13 June 1933 Act "ill" remote. His deputy, City Councilor Hermann Nickau ( NSDAP ) took over the management . Hermann Schmidhüßler was a member of the German Werkbund .

plant

buildings

• 1920 Solingen: Draft for a new town hall building on Schützenplatz (not executed)

Fonts

• Solingen and its industrial district Ohligs, Wald, Gräfrath and Höhscheid. (= German urban design. Works and works of German self-government. ) German art and publishing establishment, Düsseldorf 1922.

literature

• Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 304 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 263-264.

Web links

• Official housing association during the Nazi era on www.bauverein.net
• History of the civil servants housing association Solingen eG on www.bauverein.net
• Schmidhäusler Plan on Startblatt.net
• Address book Solingen 1931
• Solingen and its industrial district on www.solingen-internet.de
• Christening entry for Hermann Eduard Schmidhäusler on familysearch.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Matthäus Schmidhäusler on ahnen.huschka.org ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ TH Stuttgart winter semester 1897/98, p. 21
3. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 69 (from August 29, 1908), p. 461.
4. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 304 .
5. ^ Hermann Burghard: Moers from the Congress of Vienna to the end of the First World War (1815-1918). In: Margret Wensky (Ed.): Moers. The history of the city from the early days to the present. Volume 2: From Prussian times to the present (from 1702). Böhlau, Köln / Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-412-04600-0 , p. 145.
6. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 33rd year 1913, No. 55 (from July 12, 1913), p. 360.
7. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 34, 1914, No. 15 (from February 21, 1914), p. 132.
8. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 304, 411 f .
9. ↑ ^{a b c} Volker Wünderich: Workers' Movement and Self- Administration . KPD and local politics in the Weimar Republic. With the example of Solingen. Wuppertal 1980.
10. ↑ http://www.bauverein.net/htmldat/diktatur.html
11. ^ Beate Battenfeld : Town halls in Solingen. Past. Present. Future. (= History (s) up-to-date , volume 4.) Bergischer Geschichtsverein department Solingen eV, Solingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-925626-33-3 , p. 14.