Stefan Imhof

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Stefan Imhof (born December 21, 1870 in Lechhausen ; † March 18, 1963 in Berchtesgaden ) was a German doctor and local politician . From 1946 to 1960 he was the oldest incumbent mayor in the Federal Republic of Germany and received several prestigious awards.

Life

Imhof came from a family of doctors and studied medicine from 1890 to 1895 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1894 he received his doctorate , received his license to practice medicine in 1895, and in 1898, after studying himself, took his physics degree . He then traveled to Southwest Africa and Mexico as part of a ship's doctorate and later also undertook private trips to North, Central and South America, North Africa and large parts of Europe.

In 1896 he settled in Marktschellenberg as a general practitioner. In 1914 he became a district doctor in Grafenau . After six years he returned to Berchtesgaden in the same position, was promoted to senior medical officer in 1925 and worked there as a medical officer until his retirement in 1936 . According to the source, the position of district doctor in Berchtesgaden was not given up until he left in favor of a state health office that was newly established during the Nazi era . As a general practitioner and coroner , he was still active in the health service and celebrated his 60th anniversary as a doctor in 1954.

He was known as a painter of watercolors and music lover and, as an enthusiastic mountaineer, managed to cross Göll at the age of 88 .

Stefan Imhof was married twice and had two children. Already in the 1890s as a student from Munich with the penny-farthing come to Berchtesgaden, he had probably there from 1920 until his death on 18 March 1963 his main residence.

Local political activity

In Marktschellenberg he was elected mayor in 1899 and remained in office until 1914 when he moved to Grafenau.

From January 8, 1930 to May 4, 1933 he was the last first mayor of the Berchtesgaden market to be elected during the Weimar Republic . Subsequently, from May 5, 1933, the 1st and 2nd mayors of Berchtesgaden were NSDAP members, and the municipal council consisted of eight further NSDAP members, five BVP members, one member of the SPD and Imhof as a member of Black and White -Red list together. How long Imhof was active in the local council during the time of National Socialism cannot yet be verified .

In the first local elections after the end of the Second World War in the spring of 1946, he was re-elected 1st mayor of the Berchtesgaden market. When he was elected in 1946, he was the oldest incumbent mayor in the Federal Republic of Germany, he remained in office until 1960 and then renounced a renewed candidacy as 1st mayor, whereupon the local council elected him as 2nd mayor and he worked in this position until his death was.

Awards

Posthumous honors

  • In Berchtesgaden, the road connecting Ganghoferstrasse and Griesstätterstrasse was named "Dr.-Imhof-Strasse" after him.

literature

  • [?] Schuster: In memoriam Obermedizinalrat i. R. Dr. Stefan Imhof, d. March 18, 1963 in: The Public Health Service, 25 (1963)
  • Hellmut Schöner (Ed.): Berchtesgaden through the ages. Supplementary volume I, Association for Local Studies d. Berchtesgadener Landes, Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-87490-528-4 ; see pages 167, 168, 175, 176, 561.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Hellmut Schöner: Berchtesgaden through the ages . Supplementary Volume I, 1982, p. 561
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Stefan Imhof , online at bayerischer-verdienstorden.de
  3. ↑ Stefan Imhof: About the dislocations of the humerus with fracture of the head humeri and their bloody treatment . Munich, Med. Fac., Inaug.-Diss. v. 1894
  4. ↑ See: Personalia in: Bayerisches Ärzteblatt , Issue 9, September 1954, p. 183 left. Bottom column, PDF file p. 13 of 24 pages
  5. ↑ Hellmut Schöner: Berchtesgaden through the ages . Supplementary volume I, 1982, p. 175 + photo.
  6. ↑ This term of office of Imhof as 1st Mayor from 1930 to 1933 is not mentioned in Schöner's longer short biography on p. 561 as well as in the website at bayerischer-verdienstorden.de .
  7. ↑ Hellmut Schöner: Berchtesgaden through the ages . Supplementary volume I, 1982, p. 175 and 176.
  8. ↑ This term of office of Imhof as municipal council from 1933 is not mentioned in spite of his entry on p. 175 in the more detailed short vita of Schöner on p. 561 as well as in the website under bayerischer-verdienstorden.de .
  9. ↑ Hellmut Schöner: Berchtesgaden through the ages . Supplementary Volume I, 1982, p. 561;
    Schöne writes here: "Since 1945 he has been the oldest incumbent mayor in the Federal Republic."
  10. ↑ In both sources on this - Hellmut Schöner u. bayerischer-verdienstorden.de - there is no mention of Imhof running at least for the municipal council in 1960, which was already a prerequisite for an election as 2nd mayor.
  11. ↑ Hellmut Schöner: Berchtesgaden through the ages . Supplementary Volume I, 1982, p. 167.
  12. ^ Karlheinz Spielmann: Honorary Citizen and Honors in the Federal Republic. 1965.
  13. ↑ Dr.-Imhof-Straße, 83471 Berchtesgaden, Germany , online at google.com/maps
personal data
SURNAME Imhof, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Lechhausen
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1963
Place of death Berchtesgaden