Johannes Meister (politician)

Johannes Meister (born September 24, 1892 in Dienstädt ; † April 8, 1966 in Vellmar ) was a German lawyer , from 1932 to 1945 State Councilor ( NSDAP ) in the state of Thuringia and from 1935 to 1942 Lord Mayor of the city of Nordhausen .

Life

Johannes Meister was born the son of a pastor. He studied law in Jena and received his doctorate there in 1922. After the second state examination, he was an assistant judge at various local courts and the two regional courts of Rudolstadt and Altenburg from 1923 to 1927 . From 1927 to 1933 he worked as a district judge in Ebeleben .

Meister had been a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party since December 1, 1929 (membership number 178 129). From August 26, 1932 to May 7, 1933, as State Councilor for Sondershausen, he was a member without portfolio in the Sauckel government of the state of Thuringia . In the subsequent Marschler government he also held the title of Councilor of State until 1945.

From 1935 on, Meister held several positions within the party; he was, among other things, head of the NSDAP local court in Meiningen -Stadt, district leader of the NS-Beamtenbund , district leader in the Sondershausen district and NSKK - standard leader .

As the successor to Heinz Sting , he was introduced to the office of Lord Mayor of Nordhausen on April 6, 1935. He had previously been Lord Mayor of Meiningen since April 1, 1933 . Meister was seriously injured in a car accident on October 16, 1936, and on March 31, 1942, he was given early retirement for health reasons. On May 9, 1943, Herbert Meyer became the new Lord Mayor of Nordhausen.

Meister lived in Nordhausen until 1945 and was arrested there in April 1945 by the US Army. He remained interned in Darmstadt and Wiesbaden until 1948 . In 1948 he was as a minor-loaded by the denazification Hofgeismar classified and sentenced to nine months in prison on probation. In 1949 the Kassel Chamber of Judges only classified him as a follower. The Hessian Ministry of Justice rejected the application for admission as a lawyer .

Meister died on April 8, 1966 in Vellmar .

literature

• Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Chronicle of the city of Nordhausen. 1802 to 1989 . Horb am Neckar: Geiger, 2009. p. 353 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Bernhard Post, Volker Wahl (Ed.): Thuringia Handbook. Territory, constitution, parliament, government and administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995 (= publications from Thuringian state archives; 1). Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-7400-0962-4 , p. 608.
2. ↑ Hans Herz: Ruling Princes and Provincial Governments in Thuringia 1485–1952 , p. 22.