Wilhelm Maerz
Wilhelm Maerz (born October 29, 1893 in Düsseldorf , † after 1936 ) was Lord Mayor of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr from 1933 to 1936 .
Life
Wilhelm Maerz took part in the First World War as a lieutenant and then worked as an inspector for the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Essen . At the beginning of 1933, NSDAP district leader Camphausen compelled the incumbent mayor of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr, Alfred Schmidt, to give up his duties as part of the National Socialist conformity with the law on civil servants. Thereupon the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, headed by Hermann Göring, appointed Wilhelm Maerz, who had been a member of the NSDAP for many years, on March 30, 1933 as provisional mayor with the rank of state commissioner . On March 31, he chaired his first council meeting, in which, at his instigation, Adolf Hitler was made an honorary citizen of the city of Mülheim. On December 29, 1933, Maerz was confirmed in office for twelve years.
Since Maerz was not professionally qualified, his office was too much for him. In 1936 the city's financial resources were practically almost exhausted due to mismanagement and the reputation of the mayor was badly damaged, so that Maerz was no longer sustainable in this office. Maerz also had to vacate the mayor's chair under pressure from the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and was given leave of absence in May 1936. Edwin Hasenjaeger was appointed provisionally as his successor on June 1st. Wilhelm Maerz was finally released on November 2, 1936 and Hasenjaeger's successor was confirmed for twelve years on December 3.
literature
- Franz-Rolf Krapp: Mülheim - way of a city on the Ruhr. A little history of the city from the beginning to the present . Mülheim an der Ruhr 1967, p. 178.
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Municipal director: Johann Hermann Voerster (1808–1813)
Mayor: Johann Heinrich Michels (1813–1816) | Lambert Maubach (1816–1821) | Franz Kniffler (1822) | Christian Weuste ( 1822–1847) | Friedrich Fritsch (1847–1851) | Wilhelm Oechelhäuser (1852–1856) | Karl Obertüschen (1857–1873) | Heinrich Bang (1873–1878) | Karl von Bock and Polach (1879–1895)
Lord Mayor: Karl von Bock and Polach (1895–1902) | Paul Lembke (1904–1928) | Alfred Schmidt (1928–1933) | Wilhelm Maerz (1933–1936) | Edwin Hasenjaeger (1936–1945) | Wilhelm Diederichs (1946–1948) | Heinrich Thöne (1948–1969) | Heinz Hager (1969–1974) | Dieter from Siepen (1974–1982) | Eleonore Güllenstern (1982–1994) | Hans-Georg Specht (1994–1999) | Jens Baganz (1999–2002) | Dagmar Mühlenfeld (2003–2015) | Ulrich Scholten (since 2015)
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| SURNAME | Maerz, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lord Mayor of the City of Mülheim an der Ruhr (1933–1936) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1936 |