Karl Stühmeyer

Karl Stühmeyer (born March 1, 1866 in Barop ; died February 6, 1936 in Wellinghofen ) was a Prussian administrative officer , district administrator of the Bochum district and police chief in Bochum .

Career

Stühmeyer began his professional career as a miner in Dortmund . From around 1910 he found employment as the chief cashier of the Association of German Miners in Bochum. After the First World War , on December 15, 1919 , the SPD member was initially commissioned to manage the post of police director in Bochum and the district administrator there. While Stühmeyer only exercised the office of police chief until September 30, 1925, he took over the management of the district office, which was only operated as a secondary office until the beginning of 1923, from January 19, 1923 on. During the occupation of the Ruhr, the occupying powers temporarily expelled Stürmeyer in 1924.

Immediately after the signing of the London Agreement and the entry into force of the Dawes Plan in August 1924, which also brought the occupation to an end, efforts to reorganize the municipalities in the Rheinisch-Westphalian industrial district intensified.

"The questions of incorporation that have been pending in the local district for years have, on the one hand, called more and more power-hungry people on the scene and, on the other, led to conditions for the administrations involved that make calm and objective work almost impossible."

- Karl Stühmeyer on December 9, 1925 in a statement by the district

Despite the fact that, in a first step, larger parts of the district had already been removed from the district and incorporated into the urban district of Bochum in 1926, the discussions continued. Thoughts about the formation of a medium- sized town Langendreer found less approval of Stühmeyer, as he was concerned with the preservation of the district. He was definitely in favor of the establishment of a medium-sized town between Dortmund and Bochum and went beyond the ongoing discussions in his ideas by thinking of a merger with Lütgendortmund , Kley and Bövinghausen that went beyond Langendreer and Werne , just as he thought of the government Arnsberg's statement of November 14, 1927. In the following March, the Prussian state government dropped plans to amalgamate the remaining districts of Bochum and Hattingen , and in June of the same year Interior Minister Stühmeyer made it clear that the Bochum district would not survive the final reorganization of the area that was still pending. Finally, the district of Bochum was dissolved on August 1, 1929 and, at the same time, its district administrator Stühmeyer was put into temporary retirement on July 31, 1929 . After reaching the age of 65, he took regular retirement on April 1, 1931 .

After the seizure of power by the Nazis deprived them Stühmeyer due to § 2 (4) of the adopted in April 1933 Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service December 31, 1933, his right to retirement salaries. According to § 2 (1), civil servants who entered civil servant status after the end of the First World War, November 9, 1918, were to be dismissed from service “without having the previous education or other qualifications required for their career”. Paragraph four regulated the application of the paragraph to civil servants who had already retired before its entry into force.

Political activity

From 1921 to 1929 Stühmeyer was a member of the Westphalian Provincial Parliament as a representative of the Bochum constituency , and from 1921 to 1930 he also served as a deputy member of the Prussian State Council .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officers and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia XXII A, Historical Works on Westphalian State Research, Economic and Social History Group, Volume 16), Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 292.
↑ Ernst-Albrecht Plieg: village or district? The Weitmar example. In: Jürgen Mittag, Ingrid Wölk (Hrsg.): Bochum and the Ruhr area. Big City Education in the 20th Century. A publication by the Institute for Social Movements and the Bochum City Archives. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-459-X , pp. 173–189, here p. 175.
↑ Ernst-Albrecht Plieg: village or district? The Weitmar example. In: Jürgen Mittag, Ingrid Wölk (Hrsg.): Bochum and the Ruhr area. Big City Education in the 20th Century. A publication by the Institute for Social Movements and the Bochum City Archives. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-459-X , pp. 173-189, here pp. 175 and Note 13
↑ Clemens Kreuzer: Opportunity or Utopia? The dream of »the future city of Langendreer«. In: Jürgen Mittag, Ingrid Wölk (Hrsg.): Bochum and the Ruhr area. Big City Education in the 20th Century. A publication by the Institute for Social Movements and the Bochum City Archives. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-459-X , pp. 191–214, here p. 204 and note 68.

personal data
SURNAME	Stühmeyer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian administrative officer and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH	March 1, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barop
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1936
Place of death	Wellinghofen

[Lilla-1] Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officers and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia XXII A, Historical Works on Westphalian State Research, Economic and Social History Group, Volume 16), Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 292.

[Mittag174-2] Ernst-Albrecht Plieg: village or district? The Weitmar example. In: Jürgen Mittag, Ingrid Wölk (Hrsg.): Bochum and the Ruhr area. Big City Education in the 20th Century. A publication by the Institute for Social Movements and the Bochum City Archives. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-459-X , pp. 173–189, here p. 175.

[3] Ernst-Albrecht Plieg: village or district? The Weitmar example. In: Jürgen Mittag, Ingrid Wölk (Hrsg.): Bochum and the Ruhr area. Big City Education in the 20th Century. A publication by the Institute for Social Movements and the Bochum City Archives. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-459-X , pp. 173-189, here pp. 175 and Note 13

[4] Clemens Kreuzer: Opportunity or Utopia? The dream of »the future city of Langendreer«. In: Jürgen Mittag, Ingrid Wölk (Hrsg.): Bochum and the Ruhr area. Big City Education in the 20th Century. A publication by the Institute for Social Movements and the Bochum City Archives. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-459-X , pp. 191–214, here p. 204 and note 68.