Alfred Engelhardt (chemist)
Alfred Engelhardt (born September 16, 1888 in Elberfeld , † December 18, 1972 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) was a German chemist and local politician.
Life
Engelhardt was born as the elder son of the businessman Heinrich Engelhardt in Elberfeld. After graduating from high school, he studied general science in Munich and Berlin and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1911 .
After a year as a private assistant in Berlin, he returned to Elberfeld. He worked as a chemist in what was then still a small paint factory in Bayer . When the company expanded, he went to Leverkusen and researched, among other things, processes for the development of the plastics industry.
In 1914 he married Elfriede Störring, the eldest of five daughters of the factory owner Hermann Störring in Ennepetal- Voerde. Rare for the time, she had got her father trained to be a teacher. The two children, Hans Hermann and Friedel, were born in 1915 and 1925.
In 1930 Engelhardt moved his professional activity to Frankfurt am Main . There he focused on the evaluation of various chemical engineering processes. He took up residence with his family in Bad Homburg v. d. Height.
politics
When he volunteered for the reconstruction of the city of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in 1945, he already had experience in local politics from his time in Leverkusen.
After his work in the city parliament and as a community representative, he was elected head of the city council on November 4, 1946. He held this office for ten years and was a member of the city council for a total of seventeen years. In 1960 he was elected group chairman of the CDU city council group.
His interest was in the care and maintenance, the further expansion of the former world spa and the adaptation to the changed time conditions. He also saw a special task in the maintenance and promotion of public events that served entertainment, sport and especially cultural life.
District Administrator Eberlein and Mayor Horn, his predecessors in the award of honorary citizenship and colleagues in local politics, found an ally in Engelhardt.
" Familiar with every detail of the involved budget, full of passion for all matters of the city, gifted with high diplomatic art in balancing the contradictions of his assembly, Dr. Engelhardt of the admiration and love of the entire citizenry. "
The award document shows Engelhardt's services to Bad Homburg v. d. Height acquired, expressing:
“ Due to his excellent character traits, his great sense of responsibility and his always tolerant and social basic attitude, he gained the highest reputation in the entire city parliament and in large sections of the population. His services, which he was able to acquire, especially in the first difficult post-war years, for the reconstruction of the community of our city and for the well-being of its people, are of outstanding importance and have lasting value, which is why he is the highest honor a community can bestow, is awarded. "
Honors
In 1963, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, he was made an honorary citizen of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe.
literature
- "Der Taunusbote" from September 14, 1963
Individual evidence
- ^ Fried Lübbecke: Small Fatherland. Homburg vor der Höhe , Frankfurt am Main. Kramer, 1956, p. 305
- ↑ Certificate of honorary citizenship of Bad Homburg v. d. Altitude from September 16, 1963
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Engelhardt, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and local politician (CDU) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th December 1972 |
| Place of death | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe |