Theodor Artmann

Theodor Artmann (* 1882 in Dorsten ; † 1954 ibid) was a German businessman and in 1945 the first mayor of Dorsten for a few weeks after the end of National Socialism .

Life

Artmann was born in Dorsten in 1882. After completing a commercial apprenticeship at the Dorstener Quarzwerke, he went into business for himself and ran sand and gravel pits in chapels , Leichlingen and near Krefeld .

In his house on Dorstener Körnerstrasse, Artmann was a neighbor of the NSDAP mayor Josef Gronover . When the invading American troops searched in vain for the escaped Gronover on March 29, 1945, they happened upon his neighbor Artmann. A US commander named the non-party businessman, who was politically close to the center , unceremoniously as the first post-war mayor of Dorstens. At the end of April, Artmann, who was in poor health, resigned from office, whereupon the Americans appointed Philipp Desoi as mayor.

Artmann lived in Dorsten until his death in 1954.

literature

• Wolf Stegemann : Defeated, occupied, liberated . In the S. (Ed.): Dorsten after zero hour. The years after 1945–1950 (Dorsten under the Hakenkreuz, vol. 4), Dorsten 1986, pp. 20–25.

predecessor	Office	successor
Josef Gronover	Mayor of the city of Dorsten in 1945	Philipp Desoi