Alfred Schulte

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Alfred Schulte (born February 17, 1872 in Iserlohn ; † October 14, 1957 in Wiesbaden ) was Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden from 1933 to 1937 .

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After attending the Realgymnasium in Iserlohn , Alfred Schulte first spent a year as a mechanical engineer at the railway workshop in Dortmund . He then studied at the Royal Technical University of Hanover and at the Royal Technical University of Berlin , where he passed his exams as a government building manager . He continued his training at the Berlin Railway Directorate and the Potsdam Railway Workshop. He then worked for the Aktiengesellschaft Elektrizitätswerke Dresden and from February 1900 he was also a member of the board of directors of Lippische Elektricitäts AG zu Detmold .

From May 1904 Schulte was employed by the Wiesbaden city administration, initially as an engineer and head of the electricity department at the administration of the Wiesbaden municipal water, gas and electricity works, from 1906 as chief engineer there, and on April 1, 1910, he became the managing director of the management of the municipal water and light works Wiesbaden. In 1913 he became a paid city ​​councilor in Wiesbaden, where he introduced a new booking system in the city administration, the so-called "Wiesbaden system", as head of finance in 1915/1916. In 1918 he was appointed city treasurer and in 1920 second alderman .

During the French occupation , Schulte took over the official business from February 13, 1923 to November 12, 1924 after the mayor Fritz Travers was expelled . In 1925 Schulte became the first alderman of the city of Wiesbaden and head of the Wiesbaden city administration and, after Travers 'death on July 17, 1929, took over the official duties of the mayor until March 1930. From May 1, 1933 he was a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) without holding offices in the party. After the seizure of power of the National Socialists and the removal of the incumbent Mayor George crutch Schulte was appointed on October 6, 1933 Mayor and held that post until April 1, 1937 with reaching the statutory retirement age from. Furthermore, Schulte was chairman of the Nassau City Council from 1925 to 1933 and then a member of the board of the Hessen-Nassau State Office of the German Local Council .

Alfred Schulte died on October 14, 1957 at the age of 85 and was buried in the Südfriedhof in Wiesbaden . He was awarded the golden plaque of honor by the city of Wiesbaden and the refuge, the Alfred Schulte Hut, built in 1937 by the Wiesbaden Beautification Association, was named after him.

literature

  • Thomas Klein : Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945 (=  sources and research on Hessian history . Volume 70 ). Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt 1988, ISBN 978-3-88443-159-7 , p. 209-210 .
  • Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography . Short biographies from 13 centuries (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau . Volume 39 ). 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 978-3-922244-90-5 , p. 732 .
  • Stephanie Zibell: Alfred Schulte - First Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden in the Third Reich . In: Nassau Annals . Yearbook of the Society for Nassau antiquity and historical research. tape 129 . Publishing house of the Association for Nassau Antiquities and Historical Research, Wiesbaden 2018, p. 387-405 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Schulte Hut. In: Mattiaca Wiesbaden. Society for the maintenance of the city history of Wiesbaden eV, accessed on May 30, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schulte, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1957
Place of death Wiesbaden