August Staas

August Staas (* 1859 , † 1934 ) was a German politician and the eighteenth and penultimate mayor of the then still independent mayoralty Ronsdorf in the district of Lennep in to Prussia belonging Rhine province .

He was elected mayor of the city on July 24, 1896 and held this office until 1924. His successor was Richard Wagner , who was the last mayor of Ronsdorf from 1924 to 1929 (when it was incorporated into the newly founded city of Wuppertal ).

During his term of office, the establishment of the power station, the Ronsdorf dam and the Prussian tapestry school fell .

Awards and honors

Staasstraße , an inner-city thoroughfare and shopping street, is named after August Staas today in Ronsdorf . Today's one-way street is continuously built on the eastern side and has retail stores on the ground floor, while this only applies to the lower section of the western side. The northern section of the street is delimited by the market square and the directly adjoining band-knitting square and the local administration building .

Individual evidence

^ Klaus-Günther Conrads, Günter Konrad: Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein | from 1875 to 1899. In: ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de. www.ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de, accessed on February 1, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names: their origin and meaning . Ed .: Department of Surveying, Land Registry and Geodata, city archive, city of Wuppertal. THALES Verlag, Essen Ruhr 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .

personal data
SURNAME	Staas, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH	1859
DATE OF DEATH	1934

[chronik-1875-1899-1] Klaus-Günther Conrads, Günter Konrad: Ronsdorfer Heimat- und Bürgererverein | from 1875 to 1899. In: ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de. www.ronsdorfer-buergerverein.de, accessed on February 1, 2016 .

[Wolfgang_Stock-2] Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names: their origin and meaning . Ed .: Department of Surveying, Land Registry and Geodata, city archive, city of Wuppertal. THALES Verlag, Essen Ruhr 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .