Karl Trost served as another district mayor in the Zellerau. The master butcher, born in 1890, formerly a member of the Catholic Bavarian People’s Party (BVP), was temporarily arrested by the Nazis; before 1933 he had sat for the BVP in the city council of Würzburg.
The mayor and later senator and president of the Chamber of Crafts for Lower Franconia Karl Trost acted as district mayor for the Zellerau. Photo : House of Bavarian History
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The district mayor for the Steinbach valley and the Dallenberg was called Franz Brand. On April 4, 1945, while the struggle for Würzburg was still going on, the Americans offered the director of the Würzburg branch of Dresdner Bank the office of mayor, but he declined why Gustav Pinkenburg was appointed,
The vinegar manufacturer Otto Stein was also politically unaffected, and for some time held the office of district mayor for the Frauenland. In his 1963 memoir “Frankly Said”, Stein vividly described the conditions in Würzburg after the war, where it was lacking the essentials and the order was only restored after some time. Stein kept his eyes open in his neighborhood and, for example, “had to find some citizens from Würzburg and the surrounding towns trying to loot the open apartments and organize household appliances, laundry and other necessary household items ?? “.
Stein noted that he had no city police support, and that the US military police watched the looting of citizens in homes with little or no intervention. The former district mayor continued: “So the residents of the surrounding villages also cleaned beams, iron beams, pipes, pipes, installations, bathtubs, in short everything that was still usable and usable in any way, and that was lying on and under the rubble of the houses and transported away by wagons. “
The vinegar manufacturer Otto Stein was the district mayor of the Frauenland and personally took care to bring back looted goods. Photo : Walter Röder
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Stein did not simply let that happen: “More than once I personally waited for the wagons with material transports on the arterial roads without police protection and had them unload their prey again.”
When in May 1946 the people of Würzburg were able to elect a city council for the first time, Stein headed the list of the “Wahlgemeinschaft Wiederaufbau Würzburg” (WWW) with the district administrator and later Main Post editor Michael Meisner and archeology professor Roland Hampe the second largest faction after the CSU. Whether the rhyming slogan “Don’t let Würzburg go to waste, choose Meisner, Stein and Hampe!” to this success is unknown.
Hans Spanheimer was also ?? 1948 ?? elected to the city council for the SPD. Before that, he had already belonged to the “city council” set up by the Americans, as had Franz Brand, who was appointed to the first presidium of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Lower Franconia in 1945. Otto Stein was from 1952 to 1956 ?? now as a FDP member ?? 3. Mayor of Würzburg. Karl Trost even gained national fame. From 1945 until his death in 1949, he served as President of the Chamber of Crafts for Lower Franconia; from 1947 to 1949 he sat for handicrafts in the Bavarian Senate.
Franz Brand (front), director of the Würzburg branch of Dresdner Bank, was mayor of the Steinbach valley and also a member of the city council. Photo : Walter Röder
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