Josef Zimmermann (Chief of Police)

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Josef Zimmermann (* 23. November 1871 in Hirrlingen ; † 26. January 1929 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German politician of the SPD . Zimmermann was a district administrator in the Höchst district and police chief of Frankfurt am Main. He was a member of the provincial parliament of the Hesse-Nassau province and a deputy member of the Prussian State Council .

Life

Zimmermann attended elementary school in Höfendorf and completed an apprenticeship as a painter in Heilbronn from April 1885 to April 1888 , but at the same time attended the commercial training school there. He then worked as a painter's assistant in Ludwigsburg , Munich , Stuttgart , Zurich , Lucerne and Tübingen . From November 1891 to September 1894 he did his military service in Stuttgart.

After completing his military service, he was again a painter's assistant in Tübingen and Frankfurt am Main and attended technical schools in both cities. From October 1899 he became an employee of the painters' association in Frankfurt, having joined the SPD in 1897. On May 1, 1905, he was given the management of a district of the painters' association. In 1912 he ran unsuccessfully in the Wiesbaden 4 constituency in the election for the German Reichstag . From January 1915 to June 1921 he was a city ​​councilor in Frankfurt am Main, and from 1920 to 1921 as parliamentary group leader of the SPD.

As early as September 15, 1920, Zimmermann was entrusted with the provisional management of the district office in Höchst. In April 1921 the Prussian Interior Minister appointed him to the district administrator of Höchst, an office he held until 1926. However, from May 1923 to September 1924 he was expelled from the areas on the left bank of the Rhine by the French occupation authorities . From March 1926 he took over the provisional management of the police headquarters in Frankfurt am Main and from June 22, 1926 the office of police chief. He died as such on January 26, 1929, at the age of 57 in Frankfurt.

Josef Zimmermann was a member of the Nassau municipal parliament from 1921 to 1928 and a member of the provincial parliament of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau . From May 1921 until his death he was also a deputy member of the Prussian State Council. His election as a member of the Provincial Parliament in the Prussian State Council as deputy of Eduard Graef was wrong, originally Hans Plewe was planned. The mistake was corrected in January 1927, Zimmermann was now Georg Häring's deputy and, after Zimmermann's death, Georg Thöne .

literature

  • Barbara Burkhardt, Manfred Pult: Nassau parliamentarians. A biographical manual . Part 2: The municipal parliament of the administrative district of Wiesbaden 1868–1933. (= Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17; Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. 71). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003. ISBN 978-3-9302-2111-0 .
  • Thomas Klein: Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945. (= Sources and research on Hessian history. Volume 70). Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt 1988, ISBN 978-3-88443-159-7 , page 243.
  • Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the state councilors appointed in the “Third Reich”. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 978-3-7700-5271-4 , page 186.
  • Police President in Frankfurt am Main (Ed.): 125 years of police headquarters. A foray into Frankfurt's police and judicial history. October 1, 1867 to 1992. Advertisement management Rettich, Gackenbach 1992.

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personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carpenter, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician of the SPD and police president
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirrlingen
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1929
Place of death Frankfurt am Main