Rudolf Reeber

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Rudolf Reeber (born January 6, 1887 in Speyer , † after 1960) was a German municipal civil servant who was accidentally appointed Lord Mayor of Kaiserslautern from April 3 to May 11, 1945 .

Rudolf Reeber was the son of Lina Müller and the post office clerk Josef Reeber. In 1916 he married Meta Witten.

He attended a humanistic grammar school and studied law at the University of Kiel , Berlin, Munich and Erlangen.

Career

From June 5, 1917 to November 19, 1918 he was a press officer in the Bavarian War Ministry . There he found a language for monthly reports on the food situation and the mood in the homeland which was praised by the war press office in Berlin. In addition, he was occupied with questions of military youth education and the censorship of larger publishing houses.

From 1919 to 1953 he was a legally qualified city councilor in Kaiserslautern. In 1932 he was shortlisted by the Bavarian People's Party as a candidate for mayor for Kaiserslautern. Dr. Rudolf Reeber, practicing Catholic and favorite of the Bavarian People's Party and the Center . In consideration of the denominational division of the city population, he resigned as an applicant. Although the new applicant, Dr. Hans Weisbrod from Landau, neither denominational nor political, but was Catholic, Protestant circles then presented the government councilor Karl Barth from Saarbrücken, who was also supported by the National Socialists.

The escaped Nazi Lord Mayor Richard Imbt had handed over the city's business to the city treasurer Emil Pfleger.On April 3, 1945, after the US Army took Kaiserslautern on March 20, 1945, Reeber was appointed Lord Mayor of Kaiserslautern by the American military government . On May 11, 1945, after the military government had been informed of his membership in the NSDAP , he was replaced in this function by Alexander Müller .

After 1953 he remained on the supervisory board of Stadtsparkasse Kaiserslautern , Gasanstalt AG Kaiserslautern, Gemeinnützige Baugesellschaft Kaiserslautern AG (Bau AG) and Kur AG (medical baths) in Bad Dürkheim.

publication

  • Constitution and administration of the city of Kaiserslautern since the end of the Middle Ages, In: Kaiserslautern: 1276–1951 Festschrift for the 675th anniversary of the city's elevation. Kaiserslautern / ed. by Ottheinz Münch. - Kaiserslautern, 1951. - pp. 47-51

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Doris Fischer, Die Münchner Zensurstelle during the First World War, 1973, p. 106
  2. Dr. Rudolf Reeber, City Legal Counsel (BVP), Kaiserslautern. 45 years old, married, 2 children cf. Minutes of the meeting of the Main Committee of the City Council of Kaiserslautern on April 4, 1932 Shortlisted as Lord Mayor of Kaiserslautern Daniel Herbe, Hermann Weinkauff (1894–1981): the first President of the Federal Court of Justice, p. 37
  3. Yearbook on the history of the city and district of Kaiserslautern, F. Arbogast., 1998, p. 251
  4. ^ Constitution and administration of the city of Kaiserslautern since the end of the Middle Ages, [1] [2]