August Lentze

August Lentze (1911)

August Lentze (born October 21, 1860 in Hamm (Westphalia) , † April 12, 1945 in Werben (Spreewald) ) was a German municipal official and finance minister.

Life

As the son of a lawyer, Lentze attended grammar school in Soest . After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen for law. In 1880 he became active in the Corps Borussia Tübingen . As an inactive, he moved to the University of Leipzig , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . He received his doctorate in Göttingen and then became a trainee lawyer in 1881 and a court assessor in 1886 . Until 1889 he worked for the Prussian State Railways in Elberfeld . He then became the city council and deputy mayor in Gera selected.

In 1894 he followed the call as 1st mayor in Mühlhausen / Thuringia . In 1898 he received the title of Lord Mayor there . In the same year he was elected Lord Mayor of Barmen .

In 1906 he accepted the office of Lord Mayor of Magdeburg . In his short term of office, Lentze operated the incorporation of the Magdeburg suburbs Cracau , Fermersleben , Lemsdorf , Prester , Rothensee , Salbke and Westerhüsen . In order to be able to improve the infrastructure of Magdeburg in the future, he arranged the acquisition of land for a future industrial site in the north of Magdeburg. The industrial port was built on his initiative . Lentze also worked on improving the drinking water supply in Magdeburg. For this purpose he had water tests carried out in the Fiener Bruch .

As early as 1895, Lentze represented the cities that had elected him mayor in the Prussian manor house . In his local political activities he had also earned a good reputation as a financial expert, which prompted the Prussian government to appoint Lentze as Minister of Finance of Prussia in 1910. In the same year he was made an honorary citizen of Magdeburg for his services to the city. Lentze remained Minister of Finance until August 1917.

The Stresemann II cabinet appointed him president of the newly founded Deutsche Rentenbank in October 1923 , which he headed until the National Socialists came to power in 1933. Lentze was politically active in the German People's Party (DVP).

Honors

Memorial plaque on the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

Lentzeplatz in Mühlhausen
Lentzeallee in Berlin to Dahlem , Schmargendorf and Wilmersdorf belongs
Memorial plaque on the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

literature

Lentze, August. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1100.

Web links

Commons : August Lentze - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about August Lentze in the catalog of the German National Library
August Lentze in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 127 , 74

personal data
SURNAME	Lentze, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German municipal official and finance minister
DATE OF BIRTH	October 21, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamm (Westphalia)
DATE OF DEATH	April 12, 1945
Place of death	Advertise (Spreewald)

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 127 , 74