Arnold Diestel

Arnold Diestel (1905)

Arnold Friedrich Georg Diestel (born March 2, 1857 in Valparaíso , Chile , † January 3, 1924 in Hamburg ) was a Senator and First Mayor of Hamburg.

Life

Arnold Diestel's father Georg Ludwig Friedrich Diestel (1817–1907) was a businessman and Hanoverian consul in Chile. His mother was Marie Sophie Stresow (1828–1916). Ernst Diestel was a brother. The family returned to Hamburg in 1858. Diestel spent his school days in Hamburg and studied law at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg and the Humboldt University in Berlin . He was reciprocated in the Corps Hasso-Borussia Freiburg in 1877 and was in the Academic Club in Hamburg from 1879 . He did not received his doctorate because he aspired to a career judge, and was on July 7, 1879 in Hamburg as a lawyer admitted. He was advertised again in the same year and started his legal clerkship. After completing his legal clerkship in 1883, Diestel was accepted into the service of the Hamburg administration, where he worked under Johannes Versmann . Diestel received his doctorate during this time. Versmann protected him, so that in 1891 he became a permanent assistant to the Senate and on June 5, 1895 he became Senate Secretary. On April 21, 1899, Diestel became a Senate Syndicate , he was mainly active in the finance deputation under Johann Georg Mönckeberg (→  Hamburg Senate 1861-1919 ). After Mönckeberg's death on March 27, 1908, Diestel was elected Senator on April 6, 1908, and he became head of the finance deputation .

After the election of the first free and democratically elected Hamburg citizenship on March 16, 1919, Diestel, who was close to the liberals around the German Democratic Party without being a party member, was re-elected in the new Senate under Werner von Melle and Otto Stolten (→  Hamburg Senate 1919 -1933 ). After Gustav Sthamer's resignation on February 13, 1920, Diestel was elected First Mayor on February 14, 1920 . Diestel mainly devoted himself to financial and administrative issues.

Stein Arnold Diestel , Ohlsdorf Cemetery

Diestel died in office on January 3, 1924 at the age of 67. The Diestelstrasse in Hamburg-Wohldorf-Ohlstedt and the Diestelkai in the Port of Hamburg are named after him .

literature

• Heinrich Reincke:  Diestel, Arnold Friedrich Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 664 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Newspaper article about Arnold Diestel in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 32/16
2. ↑ ^{a b} Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg lawyers from 1815 to 1879 , Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-923725-17-5 , p. 376