Paul Nevermann

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Paul Nevermann (born February 5, 1902 in Klein-Flottbek near Altona , † March 22, 1979 in Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Paul Nevermann (left) with the Pakistani President Muhammed Ayub Khan in Hamburg Central Station (January 1961)

Paul Nevermann was already an active social democrat in the Weimar Republic and, in his work as a lawyer, defended those who were politically persecuted in the first years of the “ Third Reich ” . During this time he himself became a victim of the Nazi regime because of his political views. After the Second World War he was a member of the Hamburg citizenship for 28 years , worked as a social and above all building senator and took over the office of First Mayor of Hamburg from 1961 to 1965 . During his time as mayor , several significant events took place in Hamburg. The flood disaster in February 1962 was particularly dramatic . In addition, the Spiegel affair was the second event that attracted nationwide attention. Domestically, citizens were asked to have a greater say in economic policy , which should have a new direction. After leaving party politics, he was elected President of the German Tenants' Association.

Life

Imperial Era and Weimar Republic

Youth and education

Paul Nevermann grew up in what was then the Prussian community of Klein Flottbek - Teufelsbrück ( Pinneberg district ). He was born as the third child of the unskilled brewery worker Johann Nevermann and his wife Louise. The father was an active trade unionist and social democrat and had to work by the hour on Sundays because of the poor wages. In addition to the proletarian father, the mother also went to church regularly. Paul Nevermann described in his book "Metaller - Bürgermeister - Mieterpräsident" his childhood as harmonious, despite cramped living conditions. They lived in the street Lünkenberg No. 4 on 25 m² with petroleum light and water in the yard. In addition to the apartment, an important place and center of life in his childhood was the Elbe and the banks of the Elbe. He and his siblings spent a lot of time there by and on the water. He attended elementary school in Klein Flottbek. There he was promoted in writing essays by his class teacher and was already seen by him as a journalist .

1917 Paul Never man was during the First World War confirmed . In the same year he began his apprenticeship as a locksmith and mechanical engineer, which lasted until 1921 . He was employed in a grenade factory in Bahrenfeld and often had to work well over 10 hours a day. In addition, the so-called beet winter of 1916/17 came , in which the food shortage became dramatic. In November 1918, which occurred November Revolution and the Bahrenfelder operation was shut down by mounted sailors.

After the war and the revolution, a works council was set up in Paul Nevermann's company . This was not open to the factory's 30 apprentices, and they decided to set up an apprentice council. Nevermann was elected chairman of the board. In this context he also joined the metalworkers 'association and was invited to its functionaries' meetings as an apprentice representative . His employer fired him in 1921 because of his union involvement immediately after the end of his apprenticeship.

Work and study

Paul Nevermann worked in the metal industry . When he became unemployed, he attended the workers' high school graduate course of the Hamburg Senate from 1923 and successfully completed it in 1926. For the first time in Germany, this course enabled people with vocational training on the second educational path to achieve the Abitur. His previous education in the course was problematic for Nevermann. There were no language classes at his elementary school, but he needed them for graduation and had to laboriously catch up. During this time he works for a living as an advertiser for a Hamburg newspaper. He later received a grant from the city ​​of Hamburg of 100 Reichsmarks. Hamburg State Councilor Alexander Zinn became a patron and “fatherly friend” in this phase of his life .

Paul Nevermann studied law in Hamburg and Innsbruck immediately after graduating from high school . In 1930 he received his doctorate under Rudolf Laun with a constitutional examination for Dr. jur. His work was entitled: “ The dissolution of the Hamburg citizenship in 1927 . A study on the right to vote and on the interpretation of the Imperial Constitution ” . In 1931 he finished his studies with the Great State Examination . In 1932 he was accepted into the civil service as an assessor at the Hamburg employment office .

Politics in the Weimar Republic

Paul Nevermann was an active member of the social democratic youth movement. From 1918 he was a member of the Workers' Youth Association (AJ) of the SPD. After the union with the USPD- affiliated Socialist Proletarian Youth ( SPJ) to the common Socialist Workers Youth (SAJ) he was also active there. Nevermann retrospectively saw the political task of establishing a socialist society in a democratic way. In addition to the political demand, sociability was also decisive for his membership. He writes that "serious work and happiness [...] are not opposites". In 1920 he joined the SPD and later also the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . Nevermann was also politically active during his studies and was active in the Socialist Student Union . He was a member of the board of directors of the Altona SPD local association , in which the then Altona and later Hamburg mayor Max Brauer was represented. In 1932 he was put up as a candidate for the Prussian state parliament , but could not move into the parliament in Berlin . A year later, however, he was elected to the Altona city council for his party .

Wedding and family

In 1930 Paul Nevermann and Grete Faden (1907–1973) married. The three children Jan Nevermann (1935–2018), Anke Fuchs (1937–2019) and Knut Nevermann (* 1944) came from the marriage, which was divorced after 1965 . Like their father, all three children went into politics and joined the SPD. Jan Nevermann became City Councilor and Mayor of Pinneberg from 1990 to 1996 , Anke Fuchs was State Secretary and Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health for six months and Knut Nevermann has been appointed to various high offices in the states of Hamburg, Saxony and Berlin since 1988 .

The friends of the Nevermann couple included Charlotte and Carl Burmester , whose children Greta and Jens-Peter were also looked after at times.

time of the nationalsocialism

In 1933 Paul Nevermann had to resign from his post as a civil servant. He resisted having to adapt to the new rulers and join the NSDAP . He anticipated the inevitable expulsion and started his own business as a lawyer. Nevertheless, he was still in the sights of the Nazi regime. He was under police supervision with daily reporting. One of his main tasks as a lawyer was the defense of communist and social democratic politicians and their sympathizers. He was able to save some of the accused from even higher sentences.

In 1935, because of his political activities during the Weimar Republic, he was banned from appearing as a lawyer in high treason trials . He later had to give up his work as a lawyer completely after the law firm on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse was bombed out and he was forced to work at the Stülckenwerft himself .

In connection with the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 on Adolf Hitler and the subsequent Gewitter action , Nevermann was temporarily arrested for two weeks and sent to a concentration camp .

Post-war period and Federal Republic

SPD Hamburg

After the end of the Second World War , Nevermann was elected to the state executive on January 27, 1946 at the Hamburg SPD party congress . From 1966 to 1970 he took over the state chairmanship of the Hamburg SPD. From 1967 to 1976 he was a managing board member of the social democratic federal working group for urban and housing policy.

For the first “Reichsparteitag” of the SPD after the war, 15 delegates from Hamburg were chosen by all members in a primary election . Paul Nevermann received the second best result after Karl Meitmann from the elected Social Democrats . The party congress was held in Hanover from May 9th to 11th, 1946 and was the first meeting of the SPD from all parts of the three western occupation zones. 18 delegates were sent from Hamburg to the next “Reichsparteitag” from June 29 to July 2, 1947. This time the election was not made by members, but at the Hamburg state party conference (May 18, 1947). Nevermann was able to unite the majority of the votes at the party congress. In the election of delegates for the party congress, which was held in Düsseldorf from September 11 to 14, 1948, he was only able to achieve the third-best result. Marta Damkowski and Walter Schmedemann lay in front of him .

After Karl Vittinghoff had rejected another candidacy in 1966, Paul Nevermann was able to win over the chairmanship of the regional association of the SPD. In the election for state chairman, he prevailed in a vote against the future Chancellor Helmut Schmidt . Schmidt was named as a candidate by several Hamburg party circles and Paul Nevermann from the North District . Schmidt himself, at the time leader of the SPD parliamentary group, never made a secret of wanting to exert more influence on the party politics in his hometown. However, he met resistance above all from Herbert Wehner . He did not want Schmidt to withdraw from federal politics because he saw Schmidt's national political potential at risk.

Nevermann, on the other hand, wrote in his notes that he had initially not wanted to stand for election. But when a Hamburg newspaper anticipated the election result and already announced Helmut Schmidt as the new head of the country, he was so annoyed that he revised his opinion and ran. Nevermann then won against the recommendation of the state executive at the state party conference in May 1966 with 176 to 139 votes. The election was honored not only in Hamburg, but nationwide. Schmidt, named by Welt am Sonntag as a favorite, could not prevail against the mayor who resigned just a year ago. Nevermann himself describes the reasons in an interview with the Abendecho :

"But I believe that many delegates Wehner's words are followed, Schmidt was needed in Bonn and should not get bogged down in Hamburg." .

He resigned from office on June 20, 1970. This step had been prepared for a long time. As early as April of that year, Die Zeit described his administration in retrospect:

“Nevermann, as party leader more efficient and hardworking than brilliant, knew how to absorb and channel dissatisfaction among comrades. Under his leadership, Hamburg's SPD did not know any wing battles. The party managed itself, leaving political programs largely to the Senate and the citizens. "

Citizenship and Senate

After the Nazi dictatorship, on November 6, 1945, Paul Nevermann was appointed senator of the social welfare office in the Senate led by Rudolf Petersen (later CDU ). The mayor and the entire Senate were appointed by the British occupying forces during 1945 . The first election for the Hamburg population was to take place later. Nevermann had worked as Senate Director in the welfare office for the months since the end of the war and was therefore familiar with parts of his new work area before he took up his duties.

Destroyed Hamburg: Reconstruction was the central task for Paul Nevermann as building senator.

The main task at his post was the coordination of aid for the homeless and starving Hamburg population. His authority took care of the construction of the Nissen huts provided by the English . Nevermann later described this time as very tough. Above all, the " Operation Doppeleiche ", in which some of the foreign refugees who had come to Hamburg were forcibly relocated to Dithmarschen and Eiderstedt , he described as "a terrible affair" . Looking back on the first year after the end of the war, he said at the last meeting of the Appointed Citizenship :

"It is the historical tragedy of the democratic forces that they always have to begin their task when an authoritarian state system has powdered a national wealth in the air."

In addition, the food supply in the city was catastrophic. Nevermann was involved in the negotiations on the calorie level as a senator for the social welfare agency. During these sometimes difficult conversations, he allowed himself to be led into the following sentence:

"I would have estimated the English to have come to free us and not to equate us in terms of the number of calories in the concentration camp ."

In February he was appointed to the Appointed Citizenship in addition to his position as a senator for the SPD . From the first free election in October 1946, he remained a member of the Hamburg Parliament until 1974 . During the time of the appointed citizenship, in addition to the social issues that Nevermann experienced every day in his role as senator, one of the main points was the negotiations for a new constitution for Hamburg . When the constitution was first discussed, he was appointed as a speaker for his parliamentary group on March 20, 1946. Among other things, he said:

“The unconstitutional, the terrible time is over. Political life is to be put back on a broad basis of a constitutional constitution. We want to show that we are willing to build Germany and Hamburg back into a constitutional state . However, some people will ask us these days whether we have nothing better to do than work on constitutional legislation with 1009 calories. "

In late summer of the year, Nevermann belonged to the group of Social Democrats who worked out the party program for the election campaign and the period after the first general election in October . In addition to him, the leading committee included the politicians Karl Meitmann , Erich Klabunde and Gerhard Weisser .

Max Brauer , Hamburg mayor from 1946 to 1953 and 1957 to 1960, Nevermann was under him construction senator for ten years with interruptions.

After the general election in 1946 , at the request and insistence of the SPD parliamentary group leader Erich Klabunde, on November 15, 1946, he took over the office of Senator for Construction and Housing . The coalition between the SPD and FDP was controversial in the party because the result of the election would have been enough for a sole government of the Social Democrats. Nevermann supported the new First Mayor Max Brauer in his decision and the assessment that a coalition would have more popular support.

As a building senator, in a speech at the end of the harsh winter of 1946/47, he gave the ambitious goal that nobody would have to live in basements in the next winter. Already in spring it was foreseeable that the target could not be achieved due to the delayed delivery of building materials. For example, only four percent of the announced lime, cement or bricks were delivered. Nevertheless, by March of the following year, more than 35,000 destroyed apartments had been made ready for occupancy again. On the other hand, in contrast to other cities, the clean-up work and debris removal were mechanized. Thanks to this efficient process, Nevermann was able to declare the city center free of debris in the summer of 1947.

In the Senate, which was headed by Max Brauer in the second electoral term, from February 28, 1950, he also took over the office of Second Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. He took over the position of Christian Koch , who had been in office as an FDP politician since November 1946.

In the 1953 mayor election , the SPD lost its majority to the Hamburg Block , a bourgeois electoral alliance made up of the CDU , FDP and the German Party (DP). Until 1957 he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group and thus also leader of the opposition against the government of Kurt Sieveking . The first mayor before the election and the top candidate of the SPD Max Brauer had rejected the office in advance. As an opposition leader, his focus was still on the unfinished construction work, the lack of housing and the various other social problems. So he complained in front of the citizens after the first government statement by the new mayor:

“What about the standard rents in social housing ? What about the old rents and the rental value? What about the development plan? ... Do you want to change the general development plan? Do you intend to change the residential density? "

Erich Lüth wrote about Paul Nevermann's work in the citizenry: He

"Is developing, always ready to jump and point-safe, to the feared and respected pacemaker of oppositional criticism."

Under the leadership of the parliamentary group leader Nevermann and the SPD member of parliament John Leyding , so-called contact conferences were held in the Hamburg districts and the population informed about the work of the opposition. With these conferences, the opposition was able to get a decisive advantage over the crumbling and in part confused Hamburg bloc.

In the 1957 state elections , the SPD was again able to achieve an absolute majority. Paul Nevermann was even confirmed by the former leaders of the Hamburg bloc to have played a decisive role in the success of the SPD. Despite the possibility of a sole government by the Social Democrats, a coalition of the SPD and FDP came about. Nevermann was re-elected Senator for Construction and Housing to the third Senate led by Max Brauer on December 21, 1957.

Mayor 1961 to 1965

Nevermann with the Cypriot President Makarios III. (May 1962)

Already after the 1957 election it was decided that Max Brauer would hand over his mayor's office to Paul Nevermann within the electoral term. On December 23, 1960, Nevermann was elected Hamburg's new First Mayor and Prime Minister, as agreed. He took over the business on January 2, 1961. From the beginning, Nevermann had a different style of government than his predecessor. He was convinced that one of the foundations for future politics must be good communication between all social camps. In a kind of "conversation offensive" he approached his interlocutors with "expertise, winning manners and a good dose of charm". This improved the cooperation with the federal government led by Konrad Adenauer , but also with the state governments of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony .

Helmut Schmidt (1973), Hamburg Senator for the Interior from 1961 to 1965 under Paul Nevermann

In the period between autumn 1962 and spring 1963, Paul Nevermann, but also the rest of the Senate, was reprimanded by the citizens (and not just by the opposition) for his economic policy. In the ranks of parliamentarians, there were repeated warnings that Hamburg's government should not only see itself as a municipal representative and should not only deal with municipal issues. Rather, the first mayor called for closer cooperation with the other northern states (Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Bremen). There must be cross-border support for regional policy in order to secure each individual location. In addition, an economic community of northern German states is required to strive for this goal at the highest level. The subject was to occupy the following mayors as well as the Senate and the citizenry for decades to come.

The Hamburg storm surge disaster of 1962 , which killed 315 people, fell during Nevermann's term of office . It was the most dramatic event of the post-war period in Hamburg. Nevermann stayed in Bad Hofgastein for a cure and only found out about the disaster on the morning of February 17th. He broke off his stay and was flown to Hamburg on a Bundeswehr plane. After his arrival, Helmut Schmidt, who was still working as a police senator at the time, had already taken over the strings of disaster relief and its coordination. Nevermann let him go and worked to him, even if Schmidt clearly showed that he found the mayor rather disturbing. Schmidt benefited from the fact that he was involved in the preparations for the transformation of the police authority into an interior authority . Disaster control should also be reorganized there, which means that he was already familiar with the area of ​​work. Nevermann took a back seat at the following press conferences and usually had his senator say the introductory sentences. Nevermann also always defended, despite doubts later admitted, that the deployment of the auxiliaries, especially the Bundeswehr, was constitutional. In a direct reaction to the flood disaster and at Schmidt's insistence, the draft law for the establishment of an internal affairs agency was passed just three weeks later.

One of the representative highlights of the term of office was the visit of the French President Charles de Gaulle on September 7, 1962. As part of a state visit to Germany from 4th to 9th, de Gaulle visited the Hanseatic city for one day and was received by 30,000 people on Rathausplatz . Nevermann accompanied the President on a harbor tour, on a visit to the Hamburg City Hall and to a reception with members of the Bundeswehr leadership academy . The talks between de Gaulle and the Hamburg leadership were about closer military ties, but also about economic interests.

The Spiegel affair in the autumn of 1962 was greeted with indignation in the social-liberal Senate surrounding the First Mayor. Paul Nevermann demanded in a flash telex to Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer : "It is to be ensured that the publication of the magazine is not prevented." He also demanded that no prior censorship should be carried out.

The press and resignation on June 9, 1965

The resignation from the mayor's office in the summer of 1965, nine months before the next mayor's election , was a mixture of a personal decision and a scandal exaggerated by Axel Springer and the Bild-Zeitung . The trigger for the media attention around Nevermann was the visit of the British Queen Elizabeth II on May 28, 1965 in Hamburg. During the preparations for the visit it became known that the Nevermann couple had been going their separate ways for a long time, and that Grete Nevermann refused to perform her representative duties as mayor's wife. The classic protocol provided for the reception of state guests by the Mayor and his wife. Despite a protocol compromise negotiated between London , Hamburg and the federal capital Bonn, the Axel Springer press scandalized the process. The compromise stipulated that instead of Grete Nevermann, the wife of the Second Mayor Edgar Engelhard (FDP) should stand by Nevermann's side. The trigger for Axel Springer's aversion to Paul Nevermann was the conflict over private television . The Hamburg media entrepreneur and the broadcasting commission of the Association of Newspaper Publishers demanded a private television program financed by advertising. In 1964, the Conference of Prime Ministers , chaired by Paul Nevermann at the time, set up a commission to deliberate on the motion and hold hearings. In addition to Paul Nevermann, the commission also included Prime Ministers Helmut Lemke (CDU) and Georg August Zinn (SPD). The Commission did not consider the considerations on private television to be viable. In response to their report, the prime ministers unanimously rejected the application for a private television broadcaster. Shortly after this decision, Paul Nevermann met with an angry Axel Springer. According to Nevermann, he said: “ And I appreciated you so much! "And" Why did you decide that? I will never forget that! "

On the day of Queen Elisabeth's visit to Hamburg, Heinz Maenz (correspondent for the American news agency Associated Press ) wrote in the Bild newspaper: "In political circles in the Hanseatic city, discussions have come to a head on the question of Nevermann's resignation and his successor." Hamburger Abendblatt reported that Nevermann had put Hamburg's representative office in danger; the World claimed by Never man was Hamburg fall into an embarrassing situation.

The rest of the press did not agree with the assessments of the Springer media, but mainly attacked the behavior of the Springer press. A few days after the state visit, for example, the Hamburger Morgenpost, which was then still owned by the SPD, wrote : “It was not exactly Hanseatic what was attempted to damage our mayor's reputation during the visit of the English Queen to Hamburg. An unfortunate chain of personal difficulties Dr. Nevermanns should be blown up into a state affair at all costs. ”The Hamburg Social Democrats supported the First Mayor, but critical voices came from Bonn and the request for resignation. Herbert Wehner bluntly asked Nevermann to step down in order to protect the party. Nevermann finally bowed to this pressure. A search committee decided on a successor on June 3rd. Paul Nevermann officially resigned as early as June 9, 1965 and handed over the official duties to Herbert Weichmann . A few days after his resignation, the weekly newspaper Die Zeit ruled : “ Today, the Nevermann case is enveloped beyond recognition in gustosity and mendacity. "

Tenant President

Paul Nevermann was President of the German Tenants' Association from 1967 until his death in 1979 . Together with the director of the tenants' association, public relations work was intensified. Press publications, protest rallies and documentation were now a major part of the work in the tenants' association. During his work as a member of parliament, senator and mayor, Nevermann saw one of his tasks to represent the interests of the tenants. This earned him the nickname "Rent-Paule" and later "Wage cone Paule".

Awards

Paul Nevermann received the DRK Decoration of Honor in 1967 . In 1972 he was awarded the Mayor Stolten Medal in Hamburg for his services as a politician, but above all as a tenant representative . He was also internationally recognized. He became an honorary citizen of the cities of San Francisco , New Orleans , Kansas City , Chicago and the state of Texas .

Death and remembrance

Paul-Nevermann-Platz in Hamburg-Altona

Paul Nevermann died on March 22, 1979 in his retirement home "Buen Retiro" in Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife . He was buried in the Nienstedten cemetery in Hamburg.

In 1984 the Altonaer Bahnhofsplatz west of Max-Brauer-Allee was named after him.

On his 100th birthday in 2002, Mayor Ole von Beust said at the Senate's commemoration: “ Without his tireless drive, the rebuilding of Hamburg would have been unthinkable. "And" Paul Nevermann is still one of the most popular mayors that Hamburg has ever had. Not because his decisions were popular, but because his decisions were credible. He is a role model for all of us. We are grateful to him for that. "

Publications by Paul Nevermann

  • The dissolution of the Hamburg citizenship in 1927. A study on the right to vote and on the interpretation of the Imperial Constitution. [O. Publisher's information], Hamburg 1931 (also dissertation at the University of Hamburg, 1931).
  • Metaller - Mayor - Tenant President. Raisins from my life cake. Verlag Deutscher Mieterbund, Cologne 1977.

See also

Commons : Paul Nevermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Nevermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

For a detailed list of references, see literature and publications

  1. ^ Nevermann: Metaller. Pp. 9-11.
  2. ^ Nevermann: Metaller. Pp. 12-14.
  3. ^ Nevermann: Metaller. P. 23/24.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g SPD-Hamburg: For freedom and democracy.
  5. ^ Nevermann: Metaller. Pp. 14-21, quotation 21.
  6. ↑ Speech by Anke Fuchs on June 26, 1996  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / library.fes.de  
  7. ↑ a b Tormin: History. P. 17.
  8. ↑ Tormin: History. Pp. 97/98, 161 and 222. After the establishment of the FRG, the "Reichsparteitag" was called a federal party conference.
  9. ↑ a b Nevermann: Metaller , p. 197.
  10. ^ Soell: Schmidt, p. 511.
  11. ↑ Welt am Sonntag , May 15, 1966. In: Nevermann: Metaller , p. 198. The quote from the interview that Nevermann gave the evening echo was reprinted in the world.
  12. ↑ Paule goes . In: Die Zeit , No. 16/1970. Also partly printed in Nevermann: Metaller , pp. 207/208.
  13. ^ Nevermann: Metaller. P. 27. According to Nevermann, this sentence was preceded by the statement of a British officer who said: "It's still a little better than the food in the concentration camp".
  14. ^ Nevermann: Metaller. Pp. 27/28.
  15. ↑ Tormin: History. S. 116. In addition to the steering committee, there were another 14 specialist committees, the steering committee was responsible for the fundamental questions and the coordination.
  16. ↑ The picture is from 1927. At that time, Max Brauer was Lord Mayor of Altona.
  17. ↑ Tormin: History. P. 121.
  18. ↑ Tormin: History. P. 151.
  19. ↑ Axel Schildt: Max Brauer. Ellert and Richter, Hamburg 2002, p. 101 f.
  20. ↑ a b Lüth: Hamburger. P. 69.
  21. ^ Lüth: Hamburger. P. 71/72 as well as Uwe Bahnsen : The Weichmanns in Hamburg. A stroke of luck for Hamburg , [published by the Herbert and Elsbeth Weichmann Foundation], Christians Verlag, Hamburg 2001, p. 86.
  22. ^ Lüth: Hamburger. P. 73.
  23. ↑ a b c Entry about Nevermann in the Munzinger archive
  24. ↑ Bahnsen: Merkur, p. 106/107, quotation p. 107.
  25. ^ Lüth: Hamburger. Pp. 86-94.
  26. ^ Soell: Schmidt. Pp. 380-381.
  27. ^ Bahnsen: Weichmanns, p. 177.
  28. ^ Soell: Schmidt. Pp. 387-388.
  29. ↑ Ernst Christian Schütt u. a .: Chronicle of Hamburg. 2nd updated edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1997, ISBN 3-577-14443-2 , p. 538.
  30. ^ Lüth: Hamburger. Pp. 110/111.
  31. ↑ a b Soell: Schmidt. P. 442.
  32. ^ Nevermann: Metaller. Pp. 167–171 and Bahnsen: Weichmanns , p. 201.
  33. ^ Nevermann: Metaller. Pp. 167-171.
  34. ^ Nevermann: Metaller. P. 167.
  35. ↑ a b Hans Gresmann: Nevermanns Fall . In: Die Zeit , No. 23/1965
  36. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost , May 31, 1965, printed in: Nevermann: Metaller , p. 168.
  37. ^ Soell: Schmidt. P. 445.
  38. ^ Bahnsen: Weichmanns. P. 201.
  39. ^ History of the German Tenants' Association ( Memento from October 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  40. ^ Nevermann: Metaller. P. 211.
  41. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Paul Nevermann
  42. ↑ B. Leisner, N. Fischer: The cemetery guide - walks to known and unknown graves in Hamburg and the surrounding area.
  43. ↑ Speech by Ole von Beust at the commemoration of the 100th birthday of Paul Nevermann ( Memento from September 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  44. ↑ Paul Nevermann: Still a role model . (PDF; 405 kB) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 6, 2002, p. 14, subject: Senate commemoration for the 100th birthday of Paul Nevermann
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personal data
SURNAME Nevermann, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag and Hamburg's First Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein-Flottbek near Hamburg / Altona
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1979
Place of death Puerto de la Cruz in Tenerife