Kurd Semler
Kurd Semler (born November 16, 1879 in Braunschweig ; † November 5, 1965 there ) was a German lawyer , CDU politician and Lord Mayor of Braunschweig from 1952 to 1954 .
Life
His father was the judiciary and President of the Braunschweig state parliament, Wilhelm Semler († 1929). Kurd Semler passed his Abitur at the Martino-Katharineum in Braunschweig and studied law in Freiburg , Munich and Berlin. At the University of Heidelberg , he was in 1903 for Dr. jur. PhD. He passed the state examination in 1905 and worked as a lawyer and notary in his hometown from 1906. Since 1927 Semler was a member of the Braunschweig Freemason Lodge " Carl to the Crowned Column ". After the end of the Second World War, Semler took part in the reorganization of the Braunschweig Bar Association, of which he became president. In February 1946 he was one of the founders of the CDU district association. From 1946 to 1957 he was a CDU councilor. From 1954 to 1957 he held the presidency of the Raabe Society .
Braunschweig Mayor
Semler became Lord Mayor of the city of Braunschweig on December 3, 1952, as the successor to the SPD politician Otto Bennemann . During his tenure, he was dependent on the support of the German Party and the bloc of those expellees and deprived of their rights . After just two years, he ceded the office of Lord Mayor on December 15, 1954 to his predecessor Bennemann.
Semler died in Braunschweig in 1965.
literature
- Norman-Mathias Pingel: Semler, Kurd. in: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. published on behalf of the city of Braunschweig by Luitgard Camerer, Manfred RW Garzmann and Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf with special assistance from Norman-Mathias Pingel, supplementary volume, p. 122, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 .
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. P. 565, Hanover, 1996.
- Henning Steinführer , Claudia Böhler (Ed.): The Braunschweiger Mayors. From the establishment of the office in the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. oeding print GmbH, Braunschweig 2013, ISBN 978-3-941737-68-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Mechthild Wiswe : Freemasons in their time , publication accompanying the exhibition of the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum on the 250th anniversary of the Braunschweig Masonic lodges, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 978-392793923-3 , p. 102
Maires (1807–1813)
Wilhelm Albrecht Christian von Mahrenholtz (1807–1808) |
Friedrich Ludwig von Münchhausen (1809–1813)
City and municipal directors in the role of mayor (1813–1848)
Johann Heinrich Wilmerding (1813–1825) |
Wilhelm Bode (1825–1848)
Lord Mayor (since 1848)
Heinrich Caspari (1848–1879) |
Wilhelm Pockels (1879–1904) |
Hugo Retemeyer (1904–1925) |
Paul Trautmann (1925–1929) |
Ernst Böhme (1929–1933) |
Wilhelm Hesse (1933–1943 / 45) |
Hans-Joachim Mertens (1943–1945 mdWdGb ) |
Erich Bockler (1945) |
Ernst Böhme (1945–1948) |
Otto Bennemann (1948–1952) |
Kurd Semler (1952–1954) |
Otto Bennemann (1954–1959) |
Martha Fuchs (1959–1964) |
Bernhard Ließ (1964–1972) |
Walter Klöditz (1972–1974) |
Günter Jaenicke (1974–1976) |
Gerhard Glogowski (1976–1981) |
Hartmut Scupin (1981-1986) |
Gerhard Glogowski (1986–1990) |
Werner Steffens (1990-2001) |
Gert Hoffmann (2001–2014) |
Ulrich Markurth (since 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Semler, Kurd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and communalist, Lord Mayor of Braunschweig |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1965 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |