Alfred Stooß

Senator Dr. Aug. Joh. Alfred Stooss.

August Johann Alfred Stooß (born October 13, 1853 in Lübeck ; † February 12, 1927 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and senator from the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

The Senator was born on October 13, 1853, the son of the then director of the municipal gas station. In addition to visiting the Katharineum , at the request of his father, who had once been a teacher at the trade school, he also took part in the lessons at this institution. In this way he acquired knowledge that the scholar seemed distant and that would later pay off. During his studies in 1873 he became a member of the Germania Erlangen fraternity .

After completing his studies, the doctor of law settled in his hometown in 1877 as a lawyer and notary.

In 1885 he was elected to the Lübeck citizenship and then repeatedly to the citizens' committee. There was hardly a more important committee meeting he was not called to attend. Even before his election to the citizenry, Stooss was a civil deputy to various authorities.

Laying of the foundation stone for the Elbe-Trave Canal

He made particular contributions to the construction of the Elbe-Trave Canal . In 1894 he was elected to the secret commission, which had to advise the procurement of the funds for the construction of the canal. From then on he belonged to the canal building authority itself. On May 31, 1895, he took part in the celebration of the laying of the foundation stone for the Elbe-Trave Canal in the Hanseatic city. After the blows with the silver hammer by the President of the Canal Association, Hermann Wilhelm Fehling , he hit the granite stone , followed by Emil Possehl .

On September 6, 1897, he was elected to the Senate as the successor to Senator Hermann Rittscher, who had recently died .

In his 28 years in the Senate, his activities extended to the various administrative branches of the tax authority, the police office, the health department, the town and agricultural department, the poor authority, the disciplinary court for civil servants, the works and penitentiary in St. Annen, the judicial commission of the Senate, the administrative court, the fire extinguishing system, the monument council, the authority for housing maintenance, ...

His main areas were in the building authorities, which he headed from 1908, and in the authority for Travemünde.

In 1917 he took over the chairmanship of the judicial authority and at the same time was Lübeck commissioner for the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg.

In addition, from 1909 to 1919 he devoted himself to imperial and foreign affairs and in 1917 and 1918 he was deputy representative of the “Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck” in the Federal Council .

In 1923, not least for his work in the Lübeck building authorities, he received the Bene Merenti commemorative coin . During his term of office, the large inventory published by the building authorities fell on the architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck .

With the election in 1925 he retired.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 534-535.
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 1024
• Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 233
• City Papers ; No. 16, year 1925, issue of April 26, 1925, article: Senator Dr. Aug. Joh. Alfred Stooss.

Web links

Commons : Alfred Stooß  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ The laying of the foundation stone for the Elbe-Trave Canal. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 37, number 44, edition of June 2, 1895, pp. 297–301.