Arthur Hobrecht

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Arthur Hobrecht

Arthur Heinrich Ludolf Johnson Hobrecht (born August 14, 1824 in Berent / Kobierczin near Danzig ; † July 7, 1912 in Lichterfelde ) was a Berlin mayor and German politician ( National Liberal Party ).

Life

Grave of Arthur Hobrecht in the Lankwitz cemetery . Coordinates of the grave: 52 ° 25 ′ 25.3 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 2.2 ″  E

Arthur Hobrecht was born as the son of the landowner Ludolph Hobrecht and his wife Isabella. Johnson was born near Gdansk. His brothers were James Hobrecht and Max Hobrecht . After graduating from high school in Königsberg, he studied law at Albertus University . In 1841 he became a member of Hochhemia . He moved to the University of Leipzig and the Friedrichs University of Halle . In 1844 he came to the Naumburg Higher Regional Court as a trainee lawyer .

In the winter of 1847/48 he was entrusted with the administration of the district office in the Silesian district of Rybnik and then until the end of 1849 with the administration of the district of Grottkau . He was then a government assessor in Posen , Gleiwitz and Marienwerder . He worked as an unskilled worker in the Ministry of the Interior from 1860 to 1863 and was then elected Lord Mayor of Wroclaw . During that time (1863–1872) he represented the city in the "OB faction" of the Prussian manor house .

On March 21, 1872, the Berlin city council elected him under its chairman Friedrich Kochhann with 55 against 47 votes to the Lord Mayor of Berlin. Hobrecht then also represented the city of Berlin in the Prussian manor house. Berlin had become the capital of the German Empire in 1871 and was now faced with enormous tasks. In addition to the new administrative activities, it was Hobrecht's concern to finally ensure cleanliness on the streets of Berlin. His goal was to make Berlin “the cleanest city in Europe”. To accomplish this ambitious task, he was able to win the support of the hygienist Rudolf Virchow . Among other things, he started sewing for drainage. His younger brother James Hobrecht was entrusted with this task as town planning officer.

When he failed with the plan to create a province of Greater Berlin , he resigned the office of mayor and on March 26, 1878 became Prussian finance minister in place of Otto von Camphausen . On March 30, 1878, he joined the Society of Friends . Hobrecht left the Bismarck cabinet in July 1879 because of differences with Otto von Bismarck (as did the liberal-minded Prussian ministers Adalbert Falk (July 14, 1879) and Karl Rudolf Friedenthal (July 12, 1879)). In the fall of 1879 Hobrecht was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives in the Prussian Stargard district, to which he belonged until his death. He came to the German Reichstag in 1881 for the constituency of Marienwerder 1 (Stuhm / Marienwerder) . Here he was one of the leaders of the National Liberals. After he had not been elected in the constituency in 1884 , he ran successfully in a replacement election in the constituency Marienwerder 3 (Graudenz) in 1886. He represented this constituency in the Reichstag until 1890. In 1890 he was defeated by a candidate from the Polish Party. In 1912 he died in Groß-Lichterfelde , which at that time did not yet belong to Berlin.

Funerary inscription by Arthur Hobrecht

Honors

Incomplete list

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 346-347.
  • Klaus Strohmeyer: James Hobrecht and the modernization of the city . Potsdam 2000, (biography of brother James, Arthur Johnson Hobrecht is mentioned especially on pages 196 to 203)
  • Ilsedore Rarisch:  Hobrecht, Arthur. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 280 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Arthur Hobrecht  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the assistance of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 184; for the election results see Thomas Kühne : Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 137-140.
  2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe : The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives ; Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag 1904 (2nd edition), p. 18.
  3. ↑ Sign and overview plan in the showcase in front of the cemetery chapel (as of March 1, 2009): Honorary graves of the State of Berlin at the state-owned Langwitz cemetery, Lange Str. 12209 Berlin .
personal data
SURNAME Hobrecht, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hobrecht, Arthur Heinrich Ludolf Johnson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German and Politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobierczin near Danzig
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1912
Place of death Lichterfelde near Berlin