Wilhelm Duhmer

Wilhelm Duhmer (born September 6, 1884 in Kallies (Pomerania) , † July 2, 1964 in Berlin ) was the tenth mayor of the city of Görlitz .

Life

Wilhelm Duhmer was born in Kallies in Pomerania in 1884. Between 1914 and 1918 he studied and did military service. During his studies he became a member of the Cimbria Munich fraternity in 1903 and a member of the Germania Berlin fraternity in 1904 . He then worked as a magistrate's assistant and gained his first experience as a city councilor in Stargard from 1918 to 1919 . In 1920 he moved to Szczecin , where he was a city councilor and treasurer between 1920 and 1931 . Finally, in 1931, he was appointed mayor of the city of Görlitz. On October 8, 1931, he became mayor. Duhmer was a member of the German Democratic Party .

On the evening of March 29, 1933, on his way back from a business trip from Berlin , Duhmer learned that members of the SA in Görlitz had driven 60 Jewish citizens through the city and then locked them in the town hall cellar. The returned mayor tried to calm the citizens down and released them again. In the period that followed, he too became a political target for the National Socialists . Finally, in December 1933, he applied for retirement, to which he was transferred on June 1, 1934.

Shortly before the end of the war he came to the Volkssturm in Berlin . In June 1945 he returned to Görlitz to get his daughter out of the city, where he met the Soviet city commander, Colonel Guard Ilyich Nesterov, who again offered him the post of mayor. However, he turned down the offer. He died in 1964.

His grave is in the cemetery in Bonn - Poppelsdorf .

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 224.
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 264-265.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c sz-online.de: Duhmer's short term of office . Retrieved April 2, 2012 .
↑ ^a ^b Ronny Kabus: "... I cry for my father every day" . In the hands of Stalin and the SED. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-3102-0 , pp. 123 .

personal data
SURNAME	Duhmer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kallies , Germany
DATE OF DEATH	2nd July 1964
Place of death	Berlin

[sz-1] sz-online.de: Duhmer's short term of office . Retrieved April 2, 2012 .

[sed-2] Ronny Kabus: "... I cry for my father every day" . In the hands of Stalin and the SED. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-3102-0 , pp. 123 .