Ernst Scheller

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Ernst Scheller
Mayor of Marburg
In office
27 April 1934 16 January 1942
Succeeded by Walter Voß
Personal details
Born(1899-07-18)18 July 1899
Lintel, East Frisia, German Empire
Died 16 January 1942(1942-01-16) (aged 42)
Simferopol
Nationality German
Political party NSDAP

Ernst Scheller (18 July 1899 in Lintel (East Frisia) – 16 January 1942 in Simferopol) was a German Nazi Hauptmann and politician. [1]

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Life and work

Scheller was appointed mayor of Marburg in 27.4.1934 by Adolf Hitler and fought on the Eastern Front during World War II. [1] He was injured on 29 December 1941 in battle and died 18 days later on a lazaret in Simferopol. [1] [2] After his death Walter Voß worked commissarial in Marburg, from March 1944 until the end of the war as commissarial mayor. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Zeitungswissenschaft". Deutsches Zeitungswissenschaftliches Verband (in German). Duncker & Humblot. 17: 249–250. 1942.
  2. Dettmering, Erhart; Grenz, Rudolf (1980). Marburger Geschichte: Rückblick auf die Stadtgeschichte in Einzelbeiträgen (in German). Marburg: Der Magistrat. p. 637. ISBN   3-9800490-0-0.
  3. Marburg Stadtverfassung (pdf)
Preceded by
vacant
Mayor of Marburg
27 April 1934 – 16 January 1942
Succeeded by
Walter Voß