Wilhelm Heuser (politician)

Wilhelm Anton Heuser (born September 13, 1885 in Düsseldorf , † August 22, 1956 in Neuss ) was a German politician of the Center Party and the NSDAP , alderman , mayor and lord mayor of Sterkrade and lord mayor of Oberhausen .

Life

After attending the Royal High School in Düsseldorf , Heuser studied law and folk studies at the universities of Bonn and Heidelberg from 1906 to 1909 . On July 28, 1909, he passed the exam as a court trainee. In Heidelberg he received his doctorate on January 18, 1912 on the subject of the creditor's duty of diligence towards the surety .

After attending the Academy for Municipal Administration in Düsseldorf in 1912/1913, he became a “legal assistant” at the Düsseldorf city administration. From October 1, 1915, he worked in the same position in Wesel . On August 1, 1916, he became an alderman for the city of Sterkrade. There he was elected mayor in 1919 and took office on January 20, 1920. A few months later, on August 10, 1920, he was appointed Lord Mayor. On February 24, 1923, the Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission expelled him from the occupied Ruhr area . On January 1, 1924, he returned to his office. After the municipal reorganization of July 29, 1929, which united the cities of Sterkrade, Osterfeld and Alt-Oberhausen to form today's major city of Oberhausen, and after the local elections on November 17, 1929, Heuser was elected Mayor of Oberhausen on February 25, 1930. Heuser, a member of the Center Party , ran for election against the Center Party's candidate. He was supported in his election by an alliance made up of the NSDAP, the German National People's Party and the SPD . After the election, the latter fell to two councilor posts. When the " Third Reich " broke out in 1933, he applied for membership in the NSDAP in May and was accepted immediately. Then he discharged unpopular officials in Oberhausen on the basis of the Professional Civil Service Act .

Heuser was retired on October 18, 1937 and retired on November 1, 1937.

literature

• Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrators of the Rhine Province 1816-1945 . Düsseldorf 1994, pp. 301, 515 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Langer: Oberhausen in the time of the Weimar Republic. From the November Revolution to the end of democracy . In: Magnus Dellwig, Peter Langer (Ed.): Oberhausen. A city history in the Ruhr area . Volume 3: Oberhausen in War, Democracy and Dictatorship . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-402-12960-9 , p. 115 ff.
2. ↑ Peter Langer: The National Socialist Rule. Oberhausen between 1933 and 1939 . In: Magnus Dellwig, Peter Langer (Ed.), Volume 3, p. 182 ff.