August Carl Klein
August Carl Klein (born August 21, 1847 in St. Johann , † April 13, 1920 in Heidelberg ) was a German politician and acting mayor of Saarbrücken .
Life
Klein was born in St. Johann in 1847 as the son of the forester Georg Klein. He took part in the Franco-German War of 1870/1871 as a one-year volunteer . He was a brewery owner, chairman of the supervisory board of Bürgerbräu AG, landowner (Schlossgut Hochberg in Alsace) and married to Elisabeth Brückmann.
From 1887 he was a city councilor for St. Johann and a member of the Free People's Party . On July 13, 1899, he was elected unpaid alderman . In 1901 he is listed as a reindeer . In 1907 he became chairman of the Saarbrücken branch of the Progressive People's Party . In June 1909, after the unification of the cities of St. Johann, Saarbrücken and Malstatt-Burbach, he was elected honorary councilor of the unified city of Saarbrücken.
On March 12, 1919, he was appointed "Acting Mayor of the City of Saarbrücken", as his predecessor Emil Mangold had been announced by the French military administration that he would be expelled. On March 18, 1919, he received his certificate of appointment from the French military administration, and on March 23, 1919 the appointment was confirmed by the government in Trier . He took office on March 29, 1919, but on April 9, 1920 he had to resign for health reasons. Klein died a few days later on the occasion of a hospital stay in Heidelberg. He left the city a 6050 m² plot of land for the construction of building sites for war invalids.
Honors
- 1910: Red Eagle Order 4th class
- 1918: Economic Council
- 1918: Honorary Chairman of the German Democratic Party
- In today 's Saarbrücken -St. Johann located August-Klein-Straße bears his name
literature
- Hanns Klein: Short biographies of the mayors of (old) Saarbrücken, St. Johanns, Malstatt-Burbachs and the city of Saarbrücken . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region, XIX, Saarbrücken 1971, pp. 510-538. To small p. 525f.
Web links
Emil Mangold (1909–1919) | August Klein (1919–1920) | Rudolf Hobohm (1920–1921) | Hans Neikes (1921–1935) | Ernst Dürrfeld (1935–1937) | Fritz Schwitzgebel (1937–1945) | Heinrich Wahlster (1945) | Emil Heim (1945–1946) | Franz Singer (1946–1949) | Heinrich Barth (1949) | Peter Zimmer (1949–1956) | Johann Ecken (1956–1957, managing director) | Fritz Schuster (1957–1976) | Oskar Lafontaine (1976-1985) | Hans-Jürgen Koebnick (1985–1991) | Hajo Hoffmann (1991–2004, suspended from August 2002) | Kajo Breuer (2002–2004, executive) | Charlotte Britz (2004–2019) | Uwe Conradt (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klein, August Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German brewery owner and mayor of Saarbrücken |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Johann (Saar) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1920 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |