Ulrich Burmann

Ulrich Burmann (born September 27, 1887 in Kolberg , † October 10, 1970 in Kronberg im Taunus ) was a German lawyer and politician . Burmann was a member of the Provincial Parliament of Lower Silesia for the SPD from 1921 to 1930 and a member of the Prussian State Council from 1926 to 1929 .

Life

Burmann first attended a school in Stettin and later the Realgymnasium in Kolberg. He studied economics and law at the universities in Heidelberg , Munich , Jena and Berlin . In 1917 he was accepted into the Prussian judicial service as a court assessor, and in the same year he was appointed legal assistant in Stettin and magistrate assessor.

From 1918 to 1920 Burmann was a member of the Magistrate and City Councilor of Greifswald . As a result of the November Revolution, a workers 'and soldiers' council was founded in Greifswald on November 10, 1918 , which Burmann took over as a member of the SPD. At the same time, he was given the post of police director of the city. At a demonstration in Greifswald on November 11th, Burmann appeared as a speaker and announced the dismissal of the district administrator in the district of Greifswald Carl von Behr , whose office he himself temporarily took over. In an article in the Greifswalder Zeitung on December 7th, Burmann declared that he wanted to campaign for an adult education center and a workers' home and emphasized that we want to maintain the state and the center line . In December 1918 he was one of the delegates of the first Reichsrätekongress in Berlin .

From 1920 to 1929 Burmann was the first mayor of the Lower Silesian city of Bunzlau and as such a member of the district council and district committee as well as district deputy. From 1921 to 1930 he was also a member of the Provincial Parliament, the Provincial Committee and the Provincial Council of Lower Silesia. Later he was a member of the Joint Provincial Committee of Silesia and the Water Council for the Province of Lower Silesia. For a short time, from 1928 to 1929, he temporarily took over the office of district administrator in the Bunzlau district . Burmann already became a member of the Prussian State Council in February 1926, but resigned the election on May 24, 1929. He was succeeded by his deputy and party comrade Hugo Cohn.

In 1929 he settled in Frankfurt am Main . Burmann followed an appointment as director of the garden city society . Until 1932 he was also director of the stock building company for small apartments and played a leading role in settlement and construction plans. He became a close associate of the Frankfurt building officer Ernst May . In 1933 Burmann was dismissed for political reasons. He worked as a lawyer before the special courts of the National Socialists . After the occupation of Frankfurt am Main at the end of the Second World War , Burmann took an active part in building a democratic judiciary in his hometown. In April 1945 he was appointed President of the Bar Association by the Allied Occupation Powers and at the same time worked as a confidante of the Frankfurt Mayor in the judiciary. He worked as a lawyer and notary until his retirement . Ulrich Burmann died on October 10, 1970, at the age of 83, in Kronberg im Taunus, not far from Frankfurt am Main.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4 , page 24.

Web links

• Sven Vogt: The November Revolution in Greifswald in telegraph no. 118/119.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921-1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4 , page 24.
2. ^ Sven Vogt: The November Revolution in Greifswald in telegraph no. 118/119.
3. ↑ Arthur von Gruenewaldt: The judges of the Higher Regional Court Frankfurt am Main in the time of National Socialism. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-16-153843-8 . Page 342.