Carl August Schröder (politician, 1855)

Carl August Schröder, 1905

Carl August Schröder (born November 21, 1855 in Hamburg ; † November 3, 1945 there ) was a German lawyer and First Mayor of Hamburg.

Life

Carl August Schröder spent his youth in Hamburg and attended the learned school of the Johanneum . Following his father Carl August Schröder , who was a lawyer and district judge, Schröder began to study law at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg in the winter semester of 1874 . From the summer of 1875 he did his military service as a one-year volunteer in Düsseldorf with the 2nd Westphalian Hussar Regiment No. 11 . He then successfully continued his studies in Leipzig . On May 19, 1879, Schröder was admitted to the bar in Hamburg and on October 1, 1879, he joined the firm of Gerhard Hachmann and George Heinrich Embden . Hachmann was later also a Senate colleague.

Schröder practiced successfully as a lawyer and was also active in a number of honorary positions, so he succeeded in being elected to the Hamburg parliament in 1886 . Due to his family, Schröder had the best prerequisites for being elected to the Senate: Schröder's maternal grandfather was mayor Heinrich Kellinghusen , and his mother's sister had married Johannes Christian Eugen Lehmann , who was already a Hamburg senator in 1879 and was later to become mayor. Schröder's paternal grandfather was Senator Christian Matthias Schröder , his great-grandfather was Hamburg Mayor Christian Matthias Schröder .

After Johannes Versmann's death in 1899, Schröder was elected his successor to the Hamburg Senate on August 9th . Schröder became Deputy Mayor for the first time in 1910, and in 1912 when Johann Heinrich Burchard died, his successor as First Mayor ; he held office until the end of 1913. In 1915 he was again second mayor and the following year first mayor. In 1918 Schröder was re-elected as the second mayor.

Cushion stone for Mayor Christian Matthias Schröder,
family graveyard Ohlsdorf cemetery

As part of the November Revolution, the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council for Greater Hamburg took power in Hamburg on November 6, 1918, after brief battles with 10 dead. Heinrich Laufenberg and Wilhelm Heise have been at the head of this council since November 12, 1918 . They deposed the old Senate on the same day. However, they reinstated him on November 18, 1918 as a purely administrative body. Schröder remained in office until the new elections in March 1919. The citizenship was re-elected, and for the first time it elected a new Senate to which Schröder was no longer a member.

Schröder joined the German People's Party in 1919 and was a member of the Hamburg parliament from 1921 to 1932. He was elected to the finance deputation by the citizens. In 1933 he joined the black-white-red battle front and was again a member of the citizenship for them.

Schröder was honorary chairman of the Hamburg gymnastics association from 1816 .

At the Hamburg cemetery in Ohlsdorf there is a pillow stone for Mayor Carl August Schröder at planquadrat U 21 (south side avenue , east chapel 2).

Publications

• Heinrich Kellinghusen. Hamburg's last mayor according to the old order . Hamburg 1896.
• From Hamburg's heyday . Hamburg 1921.

literature

• Sebastian Merkel: Carl August Schröder, Mayor . In: Olaf Matthes / Ortwin Pelc : People in the Revolution. Hamburg portraits 1918/19. Husum Verlag, Husum 2018, ISBN 978-3-89876-947-1 , pp. 167-169.

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl August Schröder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Carl August Schröder in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
• Genealogy at "geneanet.org"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg legal profession from 1815 to 1879 . Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 375.
2. ↑ German Gender Book Volume 128, 1962, p. 194.
3. ↑ Festschrift for the 110th Foundation Festival. Hamburger Turnerschaft from 1816, 1926, p. 5; digitized by the State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky .