Martin Hutze

Martin Hutze (born December 2, 1894 in Barkhausen , † February 26, 1968 ) was a non-party German local politician. From 1945 to 1946 he was mayor of the city of Minden .

Life and work

Martin Hutze was born in the then municipality of Barkhausen in 1894, had graduated from high school in Minden, later studied law and obtained a doctorate in law. From 1926 he worked as a lawyer and notary in Minden.

Mayor of Minden

The city of Minden was taken by British-Canadian troops in the late evening of April 4, 1945, and on April 3, a tank alarm had been triggered for the city and the city administration ceased to operate. In the city of Minden, the Allied troops set up military governments that were responsible for the district of Minden and the administrative district of Minden . The city administration resumed operations on April 12, 1945 under Mayor Werner Holle ( NSDAP ) on the orders of the military government . The city administration had to carry out the orders of the military government in the weeks and months that followed.

On April 26, 1945, the military government took an order that was not carried out on time as an opportunity to dismiss Mayor Holle from his post; the real reason was his membership in the NSDAP . The city of Minden was asked to submit a list of possible successors. About eight people from Minden refused the offer of mayor for various reasons, including the later District Administrator Graff and the businessman Fritz Frerichs. At the beginning of May, the military government chose the Minden lawyer, Martin Hutze, who was appointed to his post on May 3, 1945 by the district administrator of the Minden district, Hans Graff.

Mayor Hutze first had to start with the “ denazification ” of the administration and was then confronted with the events of the immediate post-war period. Above all, this included securing the food supply for the population, the gradual restoration of the infrastructure and the organization of the first free elections in Minden after the Second World War . An important event of his term of office was the flood of the century of the Weser in February 1946, large areas of the city of Minden were flooded near the river.

After the first local election in Minden on September 15, 1946, Martin Hutze resigned from the mayor's office on October 3, 1946. His successor was the CDU politician Albrecht Hattenhauer .

literature

• Hans Nordsiek: The darkened city. Minden in the final phase of the Second World War. 2nd edition, 2005, JCC Bruns Buchverlag, Minden.

predecessor	Office	successor
Werner Holle	Mayor of Minden 1945 - 1946	Albrecht Hattenhauer