Erich Vagts

Erich Vagts ( born February 9, 1896 in Cuxhaven, † February 20, 1980 in Bremen ) was a German politician ( DNVP ) and mayor in Bremen.

Biography

Vagts was the son of a businessman. He served after graduation in 1914 as a soldier in the First World War. From 1919, he studied law and political science at the University of Tübingen and the University of Kiel. After abandoning his studies, he was Country Director Confederation in Güstrow (Mecklenburg). In Bremen, he was Managing Director in 1925, and later deputy chairman of the German National People's Party ( DNVP ). Vagts 1928 Member of Bremen Parliament. In 1931 he took over as Chairman of the Group of the DNVP.

In 1933 he received, after the replacement of the bourgeois Senate, the Office of the Senator for the health of the land and the Lord. The Mansion was responsible for the communities in the then existing land area of ​​Bremen for the administration and the police in Bremen. On September 30, 1933, he resigned from the Senate. He remained Mansion and also became president of the community supervision authority. He was a member of the Bremen State Council, a consultative body. Since 1936 he was Bremen, Oldenburg 1938, representatives of the Reich. He was not a member of the Nazi Party, as its membership application was rejected on grounds of political unreliability.

The Allied Military Government in April 1945 initially, but used only for a few days, the former police commissioner John Schroer as mayor. When his political past, it became clear they appointed Vagts on 4 May 1945 as acting and on June 6, 1945 Mayor. However, the Communist and Social Democratic senators refused Vagts from decided. He was employed on August 1st, 1945 and Wilhelm Kaisen (SPD ) for it. Vagts was after September 5, 1945 to February 7, 1946, about five months in a detention center.

Vagts, himself a pianist, in 1933, appointed Chairman of the Philharmonic Society after the rectifying circuit and 1936 also appointed as Music Supervisor of the state of Bremen. In 1938 he resigned due to his frequent work in Berlin as music director in 1939 as chairman of the Philharmonic Society. After the war he was occasionally active as a concert pianist.