Josef Paul Sauvigny
Josef Paul Sauvigny (born November 4, 1875 in Bestwig , † July 4, 1967 in Brilon ) was Mayor of Brilon from 1917 to 1937 , he belonged first to the Center Party , then to the NSDAP .
His father was the landowner Karl Sauvigny, his mother the daughter of the Brilon District Court Councilor Köster. He attended the elementary school and the Petrinum grammar school in Brilon . He studied law in Bonn, Würzburg and Heidelberg . From October 1915 he was 2nd alderman , from April 1916 1st alderman of the city of Brilon.
From 1917 to 1933 he was mayor as a member of the Center Party. On the Briloner Borberg , a prehistoric hill fort , a peace meeting with several hundred participants and Abbé Franz Stock took place in 1931 together with a group of French people. This meeting was loudly disturbed by several brown shirts from the area. Sauvigny then had them removed from the square.
After the National Socialist seizure of power he spoke of “a force that guides us”, conjured up “the will that unites us” and of Hitler as a “leader who calls us, forgetting yesterday's party hatred”. On May 1, 1933 , he gave a speech about the Führer that can be read in old newspapers. He joined the SA reserve in 1933 and was promoted to Oberscharführer in 1935 . He was a member of the NS-Volkswohlfahrt , the NS-Reichskriegerbund and the NS-Rechtswahrerbund . In 1938 he joined the NSDAP .
During his tenure, he had two streets renamed " Adolf-Hitler-Strasse " and "Hermann-Göring-Strasse".
In his denazification process in 1947 he was classified as a minor offender in category 3. Because of this classification, he received only 60% of his pension and was banned from holding public office . He himself called this a "blatant injustice"; he said: "Personal guilt is out of the question for me". He alleged that the Nazis had forced him to retire. He was therefore a victim of Nazi damage.
Sauvigny was successful with his protests and justifications. However, he kept silent about the victims of the National Socialist terror in his protest letters to the Appeals Committee. He was downgraded to Category 4 as a follower in an appeal process in 1948 and received his full pension again. The justification of the committee read: “His entry into the SA took place under pressure, otherwise S. would have lost his position as mayor. [...] Inwardly, he was hostile to Nazism. "
Sauvigny was the grandfather of the CDU politician Friedrich Merz .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bruns: Brilon 1816-1918. Verlag Diethelm Krüger, Brilon 1988, ISBN 3-923013-08-6 , p. 145.
- ↑ Briloner Heimatbund (Ed.): Briloner Heimatbuch, Volume VI, p. 26.
- ↑ Toralf Staud: "Grandpa was okay" , Zeit Online, January 22, 2004.
- ↑ Patrik Schwarz: "The problem is not the grandpa: The strange pride of Friedrich Merz" , haGalil onLine, January 19, 2004.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sauvigny, Josef Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (center, NSDAP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bestwig |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1967 |
| Place of death | Brilon |