Alexander Baur

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Grave of Alexander Baur in the Nienstedten cemetery

Sigismund Alexander Baur (born March 13, 1857 in Altona ; † February 5, 1909 there ) was a German lawyer and senator for the city of Altona.

Life

Alexander Baur was the third son of the businessman Georg Friedrich Baur and his wife Caroline Amélie de Chapeaurouge . The founder of Baurs Park , Budget Councilor Georg Friedrich Baur , was his grandfather.

Baur attended the Christianeum and from 1876 studied law at the universities of Bonn, Göttingen, Leipzig and Berlin. In Bonn he became a member of the Corps Palatia and in Göttingen he joined the Corps Hannovera . Baur passed his legal traineeship exam in Berlin in 1879. He did his military service as a prime lieutenant with the Hanoverian Hussars No. 15 . In 1885 he became a court assessor in Altona, where he worked as the city's senator from 1888, mainly in the field of finance. He particularly promoted the art-historical focus in the construction of the Altona Museum . In 1905 he became a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Provincial Parliament. Also in 1905 he was elected Lord Mayor of Altona ; due to a heart condition, however, he could not take office.

Alexander Baur was married to Meta Sophie Emerentia Meyer (born November 21, 1866 in Hamburg; † October 2, 1928 in Altona), daughter of the Hamburg merchant and art collector Arnold Otto Meyer . The marriage produced a son.

literature

  • Baur family in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 5, p. 34.
  • Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen , Volume 1: 1809-1899 , Göttingen 2002, No. 731.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910 , 25 , 414.
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 70 , 419.
  3. ^ Gerhard Wietek: The Altonaer Museum in Hamburg , De Gruyter, 1963, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Baur, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baur, Sigismund Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and senator for the city of Altona
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1909
Place of death Altona