Adolf Wächter (politician)
Adolf Wächter (born January 3, 1873 in Herlheim near Gerolzhofen , † June 5, 1954 in Bamberg ) was a Privy Councilor , Legal Counsel and Lord Mayor and honorary citizen of Bamberg.
Life
Wächter was the son of a farmer, attended high school and then studied law in Würzburg and Munich. He initially worked as a lawyer in Würzburg for a short time and entered the service of the city of Bamberg in 1902, where he held the office of the Third Legal Council until 1913. In 1913 he was elected as the successor to the First Mayor Franz Michael Lutz. From 1917 the office was named Lord Mayor, from 1922 he was a privy councilor. At the beginning of 1924 he resigned because he was dissatisfied with the cooperation with the government of Upper Franconia. From 1918 to 1923 he was head of the Bavarian Association of Cities and a member of the board of the German Association of Cities . After his resignation, he moved to Munich and was active on several supervisory boards of electricity companies, including Bayernwerk , Walchensee AG and Überlandwerk Oberfranken .
From 1919 to 1928 he was President of the District Council of Upper Franconia and made great contributions to the establishment and expansion of the Bayreuth agricultural schools. During this time, the district expanded the nationwide power supply, and the district made some profit by participating in the overland plants. On February 11, 1927, this was transferred to a foundation for the promotion of exclusively charitable purposes in the field of people's welfare with special consideration of the social conditions of the population; this district foundation is now run under the name Oberfrankenstiftung . The establishment of the foundation was intended to prevent the district's assets from flowing into the more populous areas on the other side of the district border in the event of a possible merger with Central Franconia.
Honors
- 1952: Large Federal Cross of Merit
- The Adolf-Wächter-Strasse in Bamberg, Bayreuth and Hallstadt were named after him. A memorial plaque was attached to his former home.
- He was made an honorary citizen of Bamberg.
literature
- Heinz F. Fränkel: New and Old Bamberg Streets , 4th edition, 2002.
Web links
Franz Ludwig von Hornthal (1818–1821) | Georg Bayl (1821–1834) | Ferdinand Glaser (1841–1865) | Eugen Schneider (1865–1877) | August Ritter von Brandt (1877–1905) | Franz Michael Lutz (1905–1913) | Adolf Wächter (1913–1924) | Luitpold Weegmann (1924–1934) | Lorenz Zahneisen (1934–1945) | Luitpold Weegmann (1945–1958) | Theodor Mathieu (1958–1982) | Paul Röhner (1982–1994) | Herbert Lauer (1994-2006) | Andreas Starke (since 2006)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guardian, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lord Mayor and honorary citizen of Bamberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herlheim near Gerolzhofen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th June 1954 |
| Place of death | Bamberg |