Wilhelm Wohlgemuth (politician)

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Wilhelm Wohlgemuth (around 1932)

Wilhelm Wohlgemuth (born December 18, 1900 in Pfaffenhofen adIlm ; † April 6, 1978 in Aschaffenburg ) was a Bavarian tax officer and politician. From May 1932 until its dissolution in 1933, he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament as a member of the NSDAP . After that he was Lord Mayor of Aschaffenburg for eleven years .

Career

After graduating from school, Wohlgemuth started training as a tax officer. In his professional career he rose to the rank of senior tax secretary .

His political career began in 1926 when he took over the local and district leadership of the NSDAP in Aschaffenburg. In the last free state elections in the Weimar Republic on April 24, 1932, the NSDAP quintupled its share of the vote and Wohlgemuth entered the Bavarian state parliament through the constituencies of Aschaffenburg and Ebern - Haßfurt - Hofheim . There he was elected on June 7, 1932 to the committee for the remuneration system. After the reorganization of the state parliament as part of the coordination of the states, he remained a member of this committee until the last plenary session on April 29, 1933.

On May 19, 1933, after the resignation of Wilhelm Matt, he was promoted to Lord Mayor of Aschaffenburg. Wohlgemuth was considered a loyal recipient of orders and rose to the rank of Obersturmbannführer in the SS . During his term of office, the construction and expansion of the former Aschaffenburg barracks, the beginnings of the housing estates in the districts of Nilkheim and Strietwald , the incorporation of Schweinheim on April 1, 1939 and the fire of the synagogue in the November pogrom in 1938. Wohlgemuth became head of the city in 1944 because of 'unfavorable political conditions' replaced by Hugo Häusner in office. After the city surrendered on April 3, 1945, he was arrested by the US military and finally sentenced to four years of special labor in 1948.

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