Otto Strobel

This article deals with the German politician Otto Strobel. For the Austrian musician with the same sound, see Otto Strobl .

Drawing by Otto Strobel around 1925

Otto Strobel (born April 6, 1872 in Regensburg ; † September 13, 1940 in Graefelfing ) was a German politician ( NLP , DVP from 1918 ) and lawyer, first full-time mayor from 1905 to 1934, later mayor of the city of Pirmasens and chairman from 1920 of the Palatinate District Council .

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Otto Strobel was born on April 6, 1872, the son of a wood turner in Regensburg, Bavaria. He grew up there and began studying law after school. During his studies in 1891 he became a member of the Leipzig fraternity Germania . Strobel later worked as a magistrate in Bayreuth . In 1905, the city council of Pirmasens elected the first full-time mayor , Strobel, then 33 years old. This promoted the infrastructure of the city, which had previously grown rapidly, and provided for an electricity plant (1907) and the establishment of a branch of the Royal Bavarian Bank in Pirmasens in 1911. A year later Strobel was elected to the Palatinate District Assembly. The Biebermühlbahn in the direction of Kaiserslautern was completed by 1913 . On January 26, 1918, on Strobel's initiative, some city entrepreneurs founded the Pirmasens construction aid to create cheap living space for the factory workers.

After the end of the First World War and the occupation of the city by French troops, Strobel became chairman of the Palatinate district council in 1920. Because he did not publish an order from the occupation government that violated the Versailles Treaty in 1923 , he was arrested and imprisoned in the Mainz military prison. After conviction and expulsion, Strobel was allowed to return to town and office in 1924. When the currency reforms put an end to inflation in 1923–1925 , the Lord Mayor decided to take out a loan to finance new projects such as the construction of the new forest cemetery (1924), the construction of the Streck and Zeppelin Bridge (1927–1928), and the municipal swimming pool (1926) –1934) and the summer forest settlement (1928–1930). In March 1933, the NSDAP won the Reichstag election with almost 50% of the vote. A city ​​commissioner was assigned to the tolerated mayor , who de facto headed the administration. Strobel then resigned in 1934 and moved to Bavaria, where he died on September 13, 1940 in Graefelfing.

Awards

During a visit by Prince Regent Ludwig in Pirmasens in 1913 Otto Strobel received the Order of Merit from Saint Michael . The Bavarian State Government awarded him the title and rank of Privy Councilor . After his death and the end of World War II , the city of Pirmasens named an avenue on the outskirts after him.

literature

• Fritz Burger: History and stories from the Horebstadt. Bachstelz-Verlag, Annweiler-Queichhambach 2004, ISBN 3-924115-27-3 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 551-552.
• Helmuth Schäfer: History of the city of Pirmasens. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 514.
2. ^ ^{A b c} Viktor Karl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities. Arwid Henning Verlag, Edenkoben, 2004, ISBN 978-3980466851
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Historischer Verein Pirmasens: History: The city of Pirmasens from 1763
4. ↑ Construction aid Pirmasens: Housing for thousands of Pirmasens ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Yasmin Renges: The city baths of the Roaring Twenties. Municipal prestige architecture between tradition and modernity. Dissertation, University of Cologne . Cologne 2015.