Robert Sommer (lawyer)

Friedrich Ludwig Robert Sommer (born April 16, 1883 in Volkmaritz ; † August 31, 1956 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German administrative lawyer and district president of Merseburg.

After graduating from high school in Dessau, Sommer studied law and economics at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin and Halle. During his studies in 1901 he became a member of the Alemannia Freiburg fraternity . He became a trainee lawyer in 1904 and an assessor in 1909. During World War I he served as an officer in an artillery regiment on the Western Front and received the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class.

In 1917, summer was a Councilor at the police headquarters Saarbrücken busy. In 1919 he worked successively in the Prussian Ministry for Public Works, the Reich Ministry of Transport and from 1921 in the Prussian Ministry of Commerce , most recently as Ministerialrat . During the Weimar Republic he was a member of the DVP , from May 1, 1933 of the NSDAP . In the course of the dismissal of the Prussian state government Braun-Severing ( Preußenschlag ) he was appointed regional president of the Merseburg administrative district by the Papen cabinet in October 1932 . He was retired in 1943. On August 1, 1945, he took over the management of the finance department of the provincial administration of the Province of Saxony and was in the meantime Lord Mayor of Merseburg. In June 1946 he was finally retired.

literature

• Acta Borussica 1925-38
• The German Leader Lexicon: 1934/1935. Berlin: Stollberg, 1934.
• 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. 455-456.

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. 455.