Adolf Strack (politician, 1849)
Adolf Leberecht Strack (born May 24, 1849 in Hamburg ; † December 31, 1916 there ) was a German businessman and Hamburg senator.
Strack grew up in a wealthy family in Hamburg, Senator Adolph Ferdinand Hertz was his uncle. After attending the Johanneum School of Academics , Strack did a commercial apprenticeship. He then went on an educational trip to England and China . After the death of his father Hermann Leberecht Strack (1817–1885) he took over the import and export company Hermann Strack. Strack was elected by the notables in the Hamburg citizenship in 1889 , where he joined the faction of the right. He belonged to the citizenry until 1907. As a member of the citizenship he was elected to other deputations, he was a member of the finance deputation, the deputation for trade and shipping and the hospital college. Strack was also a member of the Presidium of the Chamber of Commerce . Strack was one of the strongest supporters of the 1906 constitutional amendment, which has come to be known as the fraudulent election . In the same year he was also elected group leader of the group of the right. On July 5, 1907, Strack was elected to the Senate for the resigned Alexander Kähler . The Hamburg Foreign Journal later ruled: "Even when Senator Strack was elected, it was clear that the Senate tried to reward those gentlemen who had eagerly spoken out against the deterioration of the electoral law." In the Senate, Strack acted as Preses of the lighting deputation, the city water art and the beach offices. Strack died in office after a short illness and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery. Johann Hinrich Garrels was elected as his successor .
With an estimated fortune of 3.9 million marks in 1912, Strack was considered very wealthy. In the meantime he belonged to the supervisory boards of the following companies: the Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn , the Janus Versicherungs AG , and the North German insurance company .
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- Obituary in Hamburg Foreign Gazette of January 2, 1917, evening edition, 1B
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburg Foreign Journal of October 12, 1907, second supplement
- ↑ Rudolf Martin (Ed.): Yearbook of the wealth and income of millionaires in the three Hanseatic cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck). Berlin 1912, p. 13
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Strack, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Strack, Adolf Leberecht (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Senator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1916 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |