August Heinroth

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August Carl Ferdinand Heinroth , called Nestor (born May 21, 1875 in Osnabrück , † April 9, 1967 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Childhood, youth, studies and legal clerkship

August Heinroth spent his childhood up to the age of 12 in his hometown Osnabrück, where he attended the Ratsgymnasium . From 1887 to 1892 he attended high school in Hagen . During this time he became a half-orphan in 1889 when his mother died of appendicitis, which was misdiagnosed as gastric fever and therefore not operated on. Then he visited in Hannover the Lyceum I , where he became a high school in February 1893rd He then began studying law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After one semester, following a family tradition, he moved to the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Since his father's corps, Friso-Luneburgia , was suspended, he became active in his grandfather's corps, Brunkhorst, Bremensia , in 1894 . After three semesters in Göttingen, he continued his studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , where his Göttingen corps brother Adolf Jenckel was studying medicine at the same time. In addition to the legal lectures, Heinroth heard economics from Adolph Wagner and Gustav Schmoller and German history from Heinrich von Treitschke . He also took part in some lectures given by the surgeon Ernst von Bergmann . On January 5, 1897, he passed the trainee exam. Heinroth completed his legal clerkship in Herzberg am Harz , Göttingen , Goslar and Celle . On September 18, 1901, he passed the great state examination.

Alderman in Gelsenkirchen

Initially working as a court assessor in Osterode am Harz , Heinroth went to Gelsenkirchen, which then had 120,000 inhabitants, as a legal assistant in 1903 after a short period of preparation at the mayor's office in Düsseldorf . After a few months, on December 22, 1903, he was elected full-time alderman of the city of Gelsenkirchen for a period of twelve years and thus deputy to the mayor Theodor Machens , who entrusted him with the legal and tax department as well as the personnel and finance department. During his tenure, Heinroth made special contributions to the city's finances through his collaboration with large-scale industry in the Rhineland-Westphalia region, whose representatives dominated the Gelsenkirchen city council. These representatives included Emil Kirdorf , Erwin Hasenclever and Johann Jacob Haßlacher , among others . After a few years in office, he expanded his area of ​​responsibility by founding an art department. He was able to win over the Essen Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Hermann Abendroth and the Dortmund Philharmonic under the direction of Georg Hüttner for the municipal symphony concerts he had set up . He was able to engage well-known artists from all over Germany for the Gelsenkirchen chamber music concerts, among them the chamber singer Emmi Leisner , with whom he would later have a lifelong friendship. He committed the Stadttheater Essen and Dortmund to opera guest performances and the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf to guest performances under the direction of Louise Dumont and Gustav Lindemann . At the end of the first term of office, Heinroth was re-elected. He retired on January 1, 1919. When he said goodbye, his work for the city of Gelsenkirchen during the First World War was honored.

Lawyer and notary in Berlin

During his tenure as alderman of Gelsenkirchen, Heinroth, as an employee of the Prussian Administrative Gazette, had earned a reputation as an administrative lawyer beyond the city limits of Gelsenkirchen through numerous articles in this most respected administrative law journal and through articles in larger daily newspapers. With this reputation he settled as a lawyer in Berlin at the beginning of 1919 at the seat of the Prussian Higher Administrative Court , the highest instance in Prussia in matters of tax and municipal law . As a tax and administrative specialist, he quickly received numerous mandates from cities and large rural communities in the Ruhr area as well as from large-scale industry to represent him before the ministerial authorities and the Higher Administrative Court. Already after a few months Ulrich von Hassell , who was then President of the Association of Prussian Districts , offered him to represent the districts and advise the district administrators on issues of administrative and financial law as the association's representative. He also became the lawyer of trust of the Prussian City Council. In 1921 Heinroth was also licensed as a notary. In the following years he notarized the largest company mergers in German economic history at the time, such as the merger of the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG with the Bochumer Verein and the German-Luxemburgish Mining and Hütten-AG . He also notarized numerous wills from very wealthy Berlin families. More than 1,000 contracts signed for UFA . He was also a member of the supervisory board of Vox-Schallplatten- und Speechmaschinen-AG . Heinroth was one of the most famous lawyers in the capital.

Lawyer and notary on Sylt

After the heavy air raids on Berlin at the beginning of 1945, Heinroth left the city with his wife and initially found shelter in Erlabronn. Because of the poor security situation in Berlin after the end of the war, he and his wife moved to Kampen in August 1945 to their holiday home, which they had bought before the Second World War, and settled there as a lawyer and notary. Soon after his admission to the Westerland District Court, he was appointed a member of the Denazification Committee by the British Military Government . Due to doubts about the objectivity of this body, after a short time he made his position available to the military government and, with its express endorsement, took over the defense of most of the Sylt NSDAP members before this committee. He was a member of the Kampen municipal council and the Insel-Zweckverband. In the mid-1950s, Heinroth returned to his villa at Goethestrasse 46 in Berlin-Zehlendorf . But he always spent summers in Kampen well into old age.

Appreciation after death

Mayor Hubert Scharley and City Director Hans Hülsmann of the City of Gelsenkirchen paid tribute to August Heinroth's services to the good of the City of Gelsenkirchen in a joint obituary. The Sylter Rundschau honored his services to the community of Kampen (Sylt) in the post-war years in an obituary . The lawyer and mining industrialist Hans Fusban wrote a detailed obituary in the Corps newspaper of the Bremensia.

  • Pictures of August Heinroth

  • August Heinroth with his mother Adeline and his younger brother Hans

  • August Heinroth, standing, in 1894 as an active member of Corps Bremensia

  • August Heinroth in 1899 as a trainee lawyer in Goslar

  • August Heinroth as a court assessor in 1903

  • August Heinroth in 1915 as an alderman for the city of Gelsenkirchen

family

August Heinroth was the eldest son of the Chamber Court President Wilhelm Heinroth and the Adeline Christine Heinroth nee. Brunkhorst (1848-1889). His grandparents were Johann Heinrich Jacob Heinroth (1807–1850), pastor in Limmer, and Wilhelmine Catharine Dorothee Heinroth, geb. Dierks (1820–1845) as well as the judiciary Jürgen Peter Brunkhorst (1811–1886), member of the Corps Bremensia, and Adelheid Katharina Brunkhorst b. Schriefer (1808-1858).

The Göttingen music director Johann August Günther Heinroth was one of his great-grandfathers. The ornithologist Oskar Heinroth was a cousin of his father.

In 1921 August Heinroth married Elfriede Hermine Knobelsdorf (1899–1980), daughter of the construction manager in Osnabrück Paul Knobelsdorf (1870–1914) and Hermine Caroline Laura Knobelsdorf née Tilenius (1873–1901). The marriage resulted in two sons, Karl-August Hans Heinroth (1922-2006), chemist, married to Helga Dorothea Esselmann (1936-2019), daughter of the chemist Paul Esselmann , and Hans-Ferdinand Martin Heinroth (1923-1945).

literature

  • Hans Fusban : August Heinroth, * May 21, 1875; † 9.4.1967 , obituary in the Corps newspaper of the Bremensia zu Göttingen , April 30, 1967, pp. 10–13
  • Once the custodian of finances . In: Westfälische Rundschau of April 17, 1967
  • Former Head of Department August Heinroth died in Berlin . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from April 15, 1967
  • 60 years ago A. Heinroth was in charge of finance . In: Ruhr News from April 15, 1967

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 40/967
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39/967
  3. ^ Obituary in the Ruhr News from April 15, 1967
  4. ^ Obituary in the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from April 15, 1967
  5. ↑ August Heinroth † . Obituary in the Sylter Rundschau
  6. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover 1846, p. 386
  7. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 63/397
personal data
SURNAME Heinroth, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinroth, August Carl Ferdinand (full name); Nestor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1967
Place of death Berlin-Zehlendorf