Adalbert Hengsberger

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Adalbert Hengsberger (born January 14, 1853 in Gelnhausen ; † August 8, 1923 in Frankfurt am Main ) was the last mayor of the city of Bockenheim.

Life

As the son of the state procurator Carl Hengsberger, Adalbert Hengsberger attended the high school (Hanau) . After graduating from high school, he began to study law at the Philipps University of Marburg . On January 24, 1874, he was reciprocated in the Corps Teutonia at Marburg . As an inactive , he switched to the University of Leipzig and the Georg-August University of Göttingen . In October 1876 he passed the trainee exam. In February 1877 he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD. Since 1882 court assessor , he came to the district court of Hanau and the district court of Kassel . After three years as a court assessor at the Hanover Public Prosecutor's Office , in 1886 he was appointed city counsel in Hameln . 1890–1895 he was elected mayor of Bockenheim . With the vice-mayor Julius Wurmbach (after whom Wurmbachstrasse is named) he ensured the electrification of Bockenheim. With Frankfurt's Lord Mayor Franz Adickes , he signed the incorporation contract, which came into force on April 1, 1895, with the Prussian city of Frankfurt am Main, which had no longer been sovereign as the Free City of Frankfurt since 1866 . Hengsberger was then appointed the first paid city councilor in Frankfurt am Main. Here he worked, among other things, as legal advisor for the civil engineering office until his retirement in 1919. 1914–1916 he took part in the First World War . Until 1921 he was a member of the Frankfurt Provincial and District Committee.

politics

From 1893 to 1918 he sat in the municipal parliament of the administrative district of Wiesbaden . From 1892 to 1918 he was a member of the nine provincial parliaments of the province of Hessen-Nassau .

Marriage and children

He was married to Else Hengsberger (1862–1943) since 1883. Her son Carl, born on November 11, 1886, died as a 28-year-old lieutenant in the 79th Artillery Regiment on December 7, 1914 during the first months of the First World War in Alsace. Besides him, the marriage had two daughters. When Adalbert Hengsberger died at the age of 70, he was buried in the (new) Bockenheim cemetery near the western wall.

Honors

The street Schöne Aussicht (because of the view of the gates of Frankfurt) in Bockenheim was then renamed Adalbertstraße in honor of Adalbert Hengsberger .

Bockenheims incorporation

The plans to incorporate Bockenheim came from the year 1875. Bockenheim, originally part of the County of Hanau , had come into the possession of Hessen-Kassel in 1736 . Already during the Reformation , emigrants displaced from Frankfurt from craft circles changed the village's agricultural character. The growing commercial sector of the community prompted the elevation of Bockenheim to the Hessian town in 1819. Industrialization started earlier in Bockenheim than in Frankfurt. Free, developable land areas and the direct rail link were among other things. a. conducive. In order to protect the Frankfurt Westend from further growth of the Bockenheimer industry in the direction of the best residential areas and driven by the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, Mayor Franz Adickes incorporated the town, which had 18,675 inhabitants at the time, in 1895. From Sophienstrasse it was incorporated into the more elegant residential areas of Frankfurt, the west remained predominantly workers' residential community and industrial area. The increasing price pressure on land prices could thus be alleviated by expanding the development plans.

literature

Web links

Commons : Adalbert Hengsberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslist 1930, 104/573.
  2. ^ Friends of Bockenheims eV (ed.): Bockenheimer streets tell. Verlag Pro Literatur, Mammendorf 2006, ISBN 3-86611-152-5 , p. 15.
  3. ↑ Blue Book of the Corps Teutonia in Marburg 1825 to 2000, No. 560, p. 129 f.
personal data
SURNAME Hengsberger, Adalbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hengsberger, Adalbert Christian Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION last mayor of the city of Bockenheim
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelnhausen
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1923
Place of death Frankfurt am Main