Albert Westerburg

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Albert Daniel Ludwig Heinrich Lothar Westerburg (born March 27, 1846 in Kettenbach (Nassau), † July 3, 1903 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German politician, member of the Prussian mansion and Lord Mayor of the cities of Hanau and Kassel .

Life

Westerburg was born in Kettenbach (Nassau) in 1846 as the son of a pastor and, after graduating from high school, studied law and political science in Heidelberg , Leipzig and Berlin . From 1872 to 1873 he was a government assessor in the Ministry of Justice in Berlin, then until 1885 assistant and district judge in Brilon and Duisburg . He became a member of the Rhenish Landtag for Barmen-Elberfeld ( German Progressive Party ), city ​​councilor in Frankfurt am Main from 1885 to 1887 , and Lord Mayor of Hanau from 1887 to 1893 , where he had extensive sewage works carried out and the construction of the Hanau Main Harbor . On October 28, 1892, he was elected Lord Mayor of Kassel. He was introduced as head of the city of Kassel in February 1893. From 1893 to 1899 he was Lord Mayor of Kassel. In 1897 he was the first holder of the golden chain of office of the city of Kassel. From 1895 he was a member of the Prussian manor house. He was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Hesse-Nassau Province and from 1890 to 1900 a member of the Kassel Communal Parliament . As Lord Mayor he was restricted for health reasons at the end of his term of office from 1898. However, he remained nominally in office until 1899.

Honors

Streets in Hanau and Kassel were named after him.

Fonts

  • Rejection in an appropriate way according to common and Prussian law. Brilon 1874.
  • On the doctrine of the society and of the communio incidens. In: Contributions to the explanation of German law. Vol. 20 = NF Vol. 5, 1876, pp. 199-208.
  • Contributions to the doctrine of judgment. Two treatises on civil procedural matters, Berlin 1880.
  • About the legal nature of the Frankfurt so-called Wall Service. At the same time a contribution to the history of German building law, Frankfurt am Main 1887.

literature

  • Thomas Ormond: Dignity of a judge and loyalty to the government. Service law, political activity and discipline of judges in Prussia, Baden and Hesse 1866–1918, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
  • Jochen Lengemann : Citizens' Representation and City Government in Kassel 1835–1996. A handbook (publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck, Volume 60), Marburg 1996.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Gustav Töpke (Ed.): Die Matrikel der Universität Heidelberg, Part 6, Heidelberg 1907, p. 496.
  2. ↑ Cf. Thomas Klein (ed.): The newspaper reports from the district president in Kassel to his majesty 1867-1918 (= sources and research on Hessian history 95), Volume 2, Darmstadt 1993, p. 527.
  3. ↑ Cf. Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies , Volume 75/76, 1964/65, p. 249.
predecessor Office successor
Eduard Rauch Lord Mayor of Hanau
1887 - 1893 		Eugen Gebeschus
personal data
SURNAME Westerburg, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Westerburg, Albert Daniel Ludwig Heinrich Lothar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Lord Mayor of the City of Kassel
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Kettenbach
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1903
Place of death bad Godesberg