Joseph Pepper

Joseph Pfeffer (* 1879 in Heiligenzimmer ; † 1960 ) was a finance officer, CDU politician and mayor of Lörrach from 1945 to 1948 .

Pfeffer first worked as a financial assistant in Karlsruhe in 1901 and worked from 1904 to 1914 as an assistant at various tax offices, including in 1912 at the main tax office (customs) in Lörrach . In 1914 he did military service. In 1917 he was initially the city calculator in Lörrach, and from 1922 he was the city administration's accounting director. Since he was a member of the Center Party , he was forcibly retired in 1934 for political reasons. During the Second World War he was active in the private sector. After the end of the war, Pfeffer was appointed mayor of Loerrach by the French occupying forces. In 1948 he decided against re-election for reasons of age; he was followed by the SPD politician Arend Braye . Joseph Peffer was a founding member of the CDU in Lörrach and of the Lörrach Lever Association . From 1953 to 1959 he was deputy chairman in the district council .

In 1953, the Lörrach Lever Association honored him with the "Lever Thanks". After his death, a street on the Salzert was named after him.

literature

• Gerhard Moehring : Bailiffs and Mayor of Lörrach. in: Walter Jung, Gerhard Moehring (eds.): Our Lörrach 1975. A border town in the mirror of the times , Lörrach-Tumringen: Kropf & Herz 1975, page 34.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Josef-Pfeffer-Weg in Lörrach-Salzert