Peter Zimmer (politician, 1887)
Peter Zimmer (born December 31, 1887 in Schiffweiler ; † October 12, 1970 in Saarbrücken ) was a German politician of the SPS . Zimmer belonged to the Saarland state parliament from 1947 to 1956 and was its first president . From 1949 to 1956 he was also mayor of Saarbrücken.
Life
After attending primary school, Peter Zimmer completed an apprenticeship as a miner. As an 18-year-old he was employed at the talking pit. In 1909 he became a member of the Miners' Union and the Free People's Party . In 1916 he joined the SPD .
During the Weimar Republic he was youth and labor secretary of the German Miners' Association from 1921 to 1925, and during this time he attended the commercial school and the “Academy of Labor” in Frankfurt am Main . In 1925/26 he worked as a librarian for the government commission for the Saar region and then took over the post of editor-in-chief of the union newspaper Die Bergbauindustrie in Bochum from 1926 to 1933 . In Bochum he was also a city councilor and unpaid city councilor.
Peter Zimmer was after the takeover of the Nazis arrested in April 1933 and imprisoned in Essen. In August 1933 he was able to flee to the Saar area. From 1933 to 1935 he was committed to the status quo in the Saar area and was an administrative clerk at the Voting Court from October 1934 to March 1935. After the Saar referendum in 1935 and his departure from his last job, he had to make do with various temporary jobs. From 1942 to 1945 he became managing director of the " Arnold Becker company health insurance fund". In 1944 he was imprisoned in the Neue Bremm camp .
After the end of the Second World War , he was appointed director of the Saarknappschaft in September 1945 and was one of the founders of the Saarland Social Democratic Party (SPS). In 1948 he became its deputy chairman.
In 1946 he worked for the re-establishment of the Saarbrücker Zeitung . Room 1947 was one of the Constitutional Commission of the Saarland and the state parliament of Saarland from 1947 to 1956 and was its first president. From 1949 to 1956 he was also mayor of Saarbrücken. After the referendum of October 23, 1955, he successively retired from public office.
Honor
In the Saarbrücken district of Eschberg, Peter-Zimmer-Strasse was named after him.
literature
- Hanns Klein: Short biographies of the mayors of (old) Saarbrücken, St. Johanns, Malstatt-Burbachs and the city of Saarbrücken . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region, XIX, Saarbrücken 1971, pp. 510-538. To room p. 532 f.
Web links
- Peter Zimmer on saarland-biografien.de
Peter Zimmer | Heinrich Schneider | Wilhelm Kratz | Julius von Lautz | Alfons Dawo | Josef Schmitt | Hans Maurer | Franz Schneider | Ludwig Schnur | Albrecht Herold | Hans Kasper | Hans Ley | Isolde Ries (acting) | Klaus Meiser | Stephan Toscani
SPS: Georg Schulte (1945–1946) | Richard Kirn (1946–1955) | Peter Zimmer (1955–1956)
SPD: Kurt Conrad (1952-1970) | Friedel Läpple (1970–1977) | Oskar Lafontaine (1977-1996) | Reinhard Klektiven (1996–2000) | Heiko Maas (2000–2018) | Anke Rehlinger (since 2018)
Emil Mangold (1909–1919) | August Klein (1919–1920) | Rudolf Hobohm (1920–1921) | Hans Neikes (1921–1935) | Ernst Dürrfeld (1935–1937) | Fritz Schwitzgebel (1937–1945) | Heinrich Wahlster (1945) | Emil Heim (1945–1946) | Franz Singer (1946–1949) | Heinrich Barth (1949) | Peter Zimmer (1949–1956) | Johann Ecken (1956–1957, managing director) | Fritz Schuster (1957–1976) | Oskar Lafontaine (1976-1985) | Hans-Jürgen Koebnick (1985–1991) | Hajo Hoffmann (1991–2004, suspended from August 2002) | Kajo Breuer (2002–2004, executive) | Charlotte Britz (2004–2019) | Uwe Conradt (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Room, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPS) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schiffweiler |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1970 |
| Place of death | Saarbrücken |