Otto Seemüller

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Otto Seemüller (born October 18, 1911 in Munich ; † March 14, 1987 ) was a German lawyer and attorney .

Life

Career and Politics

Seemüller studied law and economics at the University of Munich from 1930 to 1933 and received his doctorate in 1935 at the University of Erlangen . He then worked as a judge and public prosecutor at the Munich District Court and the two regional courts. In 1938 he joined the Munich city administration as a lawyer . From 1942 to 1945 he did military service . After the Second World War he was first head of the legal department of the human resources department of the city of Munich, from July 1947 human resources officer, from July 1948 fiscal officer and later legal and economic consultant. On December 31, 1959, he left the administrative service.

In 1948 he became a member of the SPD , but left the party again in 1949 and was henceforth non-party. In March 1956, he stood as a candidate for a bourgeois three-party alliance made up of the CSU , MB and BHE in the Munich mayoral election against incumbent Thomas Wimmer (SPD). He was defeated by him with 38.1% of the vote.

Personality and private

Seemüller was an "a priori musical person". In the winter of 1950 he married the actress Maria Wimmer (1911–1996). He had seen her for the first time on stage in the 1947/48 season at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel in the title role of Schiller's tragedy Maria Stuart and immediately fell in love with her. Through their joint work as jurors in the Munich art and culture scene in the immediate post-war period, Wimmer and Seemüller became closer. Their marriage was childless.

The Swiss architect and university professor Rolf Gutbrod described Otto Seemüller in his commemorative address for Maria Wimmer in 1996: “In Dr. Otto Seemüller, related to her in the artistic spirit, educated, educated, who took a lot of time for her, protected her and was her congenial advisor, she found the husband who was destined for her, as she was for him. She was able to discuss every detail with him, including her work. ”From 1954, Seemüller acted as the manager of Maria Wimmer, who from that point on no longer wanted to be tied to a theater and from then on only negotiated piece contracts for her roles; Seemüller provided her with legal and artistic support.

After the end of his professional career he worked as a writer and translator. He put u. a. a new translation of the comedy Donna di Garbo by Carlo Goldoni under the title The Art of Making It All Right . Seemüller's translation was u. a. Used in performances of the play in the Junge Theater Hamburg, the Volkstheater Vienna and the Stadttheater Saarbrücken .

Seemüller also worked together with Maria Wimmer as an art collector and art patron . The couple owned u. a. Paintings by Emil Nolde , Christian Rohlfs and Max Pechstein . After Seemüller's death, the joint collection initially fell to Maria Wimmer. After her death in 1996, the picture collection was auctioned according to her will in her will. The proceeds went to the Maria Wimmer Foundation in Munich, which financially supports artists in need.

His grave is on the Bogenhausen cemetery in Munich (grave no. 1-7-1).

Fonts

  • The decision on the criminal procedure reopening - Erlangen, Jur.Diss. - Münchberg, 1935

literature

  • Walter Butry: Munich from A – Z: City dictionary of the Bavarian capital - Munich: Butry and Müller, 1966
  • Erich Scheibmayr: Last Home: Personalities in Munich Cemeteries 1784–1984. - Munich: Scheibmayr, 1989
  • Ellen Latzin: Learning from America ?: the US cultural exchange program for Bavaria and its graduates , Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ C. Bernd Sucher : Maria Wimmer 1911–1996 . Parthas Publishing House. Berlin 2000. p. 123. ISBN 3-932529-61-8
  2. ↑ C. Bernd Sucher: Maria Wimmer 1911–1996 . Parthas Publishing House. Berlin 2000, p. 69. ISBN 3-932529-61-8
  3. ^ A b Association of Friends of the Bavarian State Theater (ed.): ... then they played again. The Bavarian State Theater 1946–1986 . Texts: Monika Faber. Documentation: Loni Weizert. Page 145. Munich 1986. ISBN 3-765-42059-X .
  4. ^ Commemorative speech for Maria Wimmer Commemorative speech by Rolf Gutbrod from 1996. Retrieved on January 4, 2014.
  5. ↑ C. Bernd Sucher: Maria Wimmer 1911–1996 . Parthas Publishing House. Berlin 2000. p. 204. ISBN 3-932529-61-8
  6. ↑ a b theater today . Volume 13. 1972. Page 8 (excerpts available from Google Books ). Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  7. ↑ a b c d e C. Bernd Sucher: Maria Wimmer 1911–1996 . Parthas Publishing House. Berlin 2000. p. 8f. ISBN 3-932529-61-8
personal data
SURNAME Seemüller, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and attorney
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1987