Johann Lahmann

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Johann Lahmann (born November 17, 1883 in Elmeloh ; † January 9, 1935 in Bielefeld ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1925 to 1933 he was a member of the Oldenburg Landtag and from 1929 to 1933 mayor of the city of Nordenham .

Life

Lahmann was born the son of a bricklayer. From 1899 he attended the Evangelical Teachers' College in Oldenburg , worked as a primary school teacher from 1903 to 1928 and was most recently vice rector in Ganderkesee , Rüstringen and from 1912 at the Nordenhamer Südschule.

Lahmann joined the SPD in 1919 and was an honorary deputy mayor in Nordenham until 1923. In May 1925 he was elected to the Oldenburg state parliament, to which he belonged for a period of four electoral terms until 1933. For the fourth (1925–1928) and fifth electoral terms (1928–1931) he was elected secretary of the state parliament. He was also a member of the Administrative Committee from 1925 to 1928 and a member of the Finance Committee from 1928 to 1933.

On December 10, 1928, Lahmann was elected full-time mayor of the city of Nordenham. The decision, in which he was defeated by the bourgeois opponent Carl Coors, was drawn by lot. On February 4, 1929, Lahmann was the first Social Democrat to take over the duties of mayor, and at the same time he became a member of the Nordenham District Council.

After the National Socialists came to power in the Free State of Oldenburg in 1932, Prime Minister Carl Röver offered him membership in the NSDAP and a position in the Oldenburg state government . Lahmann refused both, whereupon the National Socialists sent telegrams to the Reich and state governments asking for his removal from office, which was finally carried out on March 10, 1933. On that day, his deputy, Alfred Lorenzen, who was also the chairman of the metalworking union, was driven out of office. The mayoral functions were transferred to State Commissioner Emil Gerdes (full-time) and the master mason Gustav Gerdes (deputy).

Lahmann then retired to East Westphalia and lived with his wife Bertha, whom he married in 1916, in a small house near the forest in Quelle . He had to cover his reduced livelihood with his retirement as a teacher, since the National Socialists had refused to give him his pension as mayor. In January 1935 he died in the Franziskus Hospital Bielefeld as a result of gastric surgery.

literature

  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 211.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Henning Bielefeld: Mayor in a time of greatest need. In: NWZ Online . October 6, 2011, accessed June 25, 2019 .
  2. ^ Henning Bielefeld: Marines call for the end of the monarchy. In: NWZ Online. November 6, 2018, accessed June 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lahmann, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the State Parliament, Mayor of Nordenham
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmeloh
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1935
Place of death Bielefeld