Richard Schmidt (politician, 1882)

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Memorial stone for Richard Schmidt in the old cemetery in Greifswald (2014)

Richard Schmidt (born November 11, 1882 in Greifswald ; † December 18, 1946 in the special camp Fünfeichen ) was a German local politician and mayor of Greifswald.

Richard Schmidt attended grammar school in his hometown from 1892 to 1901; from 1901 to 1904 he studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Greifswald. In 1901 he became a member of the Red Lion fraternity in Leipzig . From 1905 to 1909 he was a court trainee and 1909-1912 court assessor ; various activities in the Greifswald city administration followed.

He was first elected to the city council in 1912. When Greifswald became an independent city in 1913 , he was given a mayor's office under Lord Mayor Willy Gerding , which he held until 1936. In 1939 he was again appointed mayor of Greifswald. After Lord Mayor Johann Friedrich Rickels' flight , he ran his official business in 1945. Along with other personalities in the city, such as the university rector Carl Engel , the theologian Ernst Lohmeyer and the physician Gerhardt Katsch, he belonged to a cross-party group that at the end of April / beginning of May was able to win over city commandant Rudolf Petershagen to hand over Greifswald to the Red Army without a fight . Between May 6 and 8, 1945, Richard Schmidt, Siegfried Remertz , Carl Engel and others were arrested by the Soviet military administration in Germany . Schmidt was first into a " prison No.5 called" punishment camps of the NKVD after Strelitz-Alt brought later to Neubrandenburg into special camps Fünfeichen , where he was killed 1946th

See also

literature

  • Schmidt, Richard . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 387.
  • 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. 277-278.
  • Andreas Köhn: The New Testament scholar Ernst Lohmeyer: Studies on biography and theology . Mohr Siebeck, 2004, ISBN 3161483766 . Pp. 114-116.
  • Jürgen Stübs: Schmidt, Richard. In: The old cemetery. Greifswald (2004), p. 45. ISBN 3-00-014790-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 277.
  2. ↑ Harald Lachmann: Financially strong lovers of monuments wanted . In: Nordkurier. Strelitzer newspaper .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician and mayor of Greifswald
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1946
Place of death Special camp Fünfeichen