Alfred Rudolph Zimmerman

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AR Zimmermann, 1923

Alfred Rudolph Zimmerman (born January 19, 1869 in Amsterdam , † July 2, 1937 in Velp ) was a Dutch lawyer, politician and diplomat.

Life

Alfred Rudolph Zimmerman was the son of the merchant and banker Johan Carl Zimmerman and his wife Suzanna Jacoba Vrolik. After graduating from high school in his hometown, he studied law at the University of Leiden . In 1894 he was with a thesis on international arbitration for doctor of law doctorate. Finally he was deputy head of the administration of the province of Zuid-Holland . From 1896 he was administrative director (gemeentesecretaris) of the city of Dordrecht . In 1899, only 30 years old, he was elected mayor.

The manner in which he held office in Dordrecht gave Zimmerman such a reputation that he was elected Mayor of Rotterdam in 1906 . He held this office until March 1923. His term of office included the development of new parts of the city in the west of Rotterdam, the construction of the new town hall, the construction of the Kralingse Bos urban forest and the Waalhaven airport as well as the incorporation of the city of Hoek van Holland .

At the end of 1922, before the end of his term in Rotterdam, Zimmerman entered the service of the League of Nations at the request of the Dutch Foreign Minister Abraham van Karnebeek . On March 6, 1923 he resigned his mayor's office; the following day he moved to Vienna. After the conclusion of the Geneva Protocols, he was commissioned as "General Commissioner of the League of Nations for the Economic Re-establishment of Austria" (as his official title was) to control the Austrian state finances on behalf of the League of Nations and to steer the measures for the economic revival of the country. (During this time, the name Alfred Rudolf Zimmermann became established in Austria .) After an extension, this mandate ended on June 30, 1926.

From 1927 to 1932 Zimmerman was chairman of the Comisión México-Británica de Reclamaciones (Anglo-Mexican Claims Commission). In 1930 he headed the French-Swedish Reconciliation Commission.

Honors

  • In 1950 Zimmermanweg in the Rotterdam district of Dijkzigt was named after Alfred Rudolph Zimmerman.

Fonts (selection)

  • International arbitrage . Ijdo, Leiden 1894.
  • with Carl Wilhelm de Vries: Principieele Staatkunde, Volume 2: Fascisme, radicalisme, communisme en de historical Richting . Brusse voor de Vereeniging voor Staatkunde van de students of the Nederlandsche Handels-Hoogeschool, Rotterdam 1929 (2nd, expanded edition 1932).
  • November 1918 . Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Rotterdam 1933; New edition under the title November 1918. Journaal van een revolutie die niet doorging , Amsterdam 1971.
  • De vakbewegunging. Het vraagstuk the naaste toekomst . Leopold, 's Gravenhage 1933.

literature

  • Jacques Louis Joseph Bosmans: De Nederlander Mr. AR Zimmerman as Commissaris-Generaal van de Volkenbond in Oostenrijk 1922-1926 . Diss., Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen 1973.
  • Erich Zöllner : History of Austria. Oldenbourg, Munich 1990.
  • Roman Sandgruber: Austrian History - Economy and Politics. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2005.
  • Arnold Suppan (Ed.): Foreign Policy Documents of the Republic of Austria 1918–1938. Volume 5: Under the financial control of the League of Nations: November 7, 1922 to June 15, 1926. Edited by Klaus Koch, Walter Rauscher and Arnold Suppan. Publishing house for history and politics, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7028-0372-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mr. AR Zimmerman in the Biographical Directory of the Dutch Parliamentarians, accessed October 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Zimmerman, Alfred Rudolph (1869–1939) . In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland .
  3. ^ A b City Archives Rotterdam: Alfred Rudolph Zimmerman (1869–1939). Burgemeester van Rotterdam van 1906 dead 1923 , Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  4. ^ Hannes Leidinger , Verena Moritz : The Republic of Austria 1918/2008. Overview, interim balance sheet, reassessment . Deuticke, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-552-06087-6 , p. 251.
  5. ^ Alfred Rudolph Zimmermann , short biographies on the website of the German Federal Archives, accessed on October 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Zimmerman, Alfred Rudolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmermann, Alfred Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1937
Place of death Velp