Carl Bruno Trondlin

Carl Bruno Tröndlin in a photo by Hermann Walter (around 1900)

Gravestone of Carl Bruno Tröndlin and his wife Margarethe in the old Johannisfriedhof in Leipzig

Carl Bruno Tröndlin (born May 26, 1835 in Leipzig ; † May 27, 1908 in Dresden ) was a German lawyer and politician ( NLP ). From 1884 to 1890 he was a member of the Reichstag and from 1899 to 1908 Lord Mayor of the City of Leipzig and a member of the 1st Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament .

Life

Carl Bruno Tröndlin came as the third child of Johann Nepomuk Tröndlin (* 1790 in Freiburg i. Br .; † 1862 in Leipzig) (who had been married since 1829 ), a carpenter and instrument maker who immigrated from Freiburg im Breisgau via Vienna in 1821 , later an independent piano maker and City councilor, and Emilie Mathilde Kabitzsch (member of a Leipzig landowner family). With Elwine (* 1829), Elisa (* 1833) and Clotilde (* 1839) he had three sisters. Tröndlin attended the 1st Citizens' School in Leipzig and later the Thomas School . He then studied law and political science at the University of Leipzig , the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . From 1857 he was in the Saxon preparatory service. After his doctorate as Dr. jur. he worked from 1865 to 1876 as a lawyer and notary in Leipzig.

Tröndlin was a member of the National Liberal Party (NLP). In 1887 he was a member of the central election committee of the NLP. He was also a board member of NLP. From 1870 to 1876 he was city ​​councilor in Leipzig and from 1874 to 1876 head of the city council assembly. In 1876 he was elected deputy mayor under Otto Georgi and thus entered the council. By local statute of December 29, 1877 he was raised to the rank of mayor and in 1882 re-elected mayor for life. Bruno Tröndlin was also the Saxon judiciary and from October 1884 to February 1890 a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Saxony 12 (Leipzig-Stadt).

In his 32-year council membership, he has been in Georgi's shadow for a long time. After his retirement he was his successor in all municipal offices. After the election that took place on July 12, 1899 and the re-election of Mayor for life on June 29, 1904, he served as Mayor of Leipzig from October 2, 1899 until his death on May 27, 1908 . As a virilist , he also belonged to the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament.

Many decisions concerning the Thomas School and the St. Thomas Choir were made by him. It is largely thanks to him that the St. Thomas' Choir and its alumni have been preserved. The construction of the New Town Hall fell during his tenure , and he campaigned for the preservation of the Old Town Hall as a museum. Furthermore, during his tenure, the main station , the Dosen sanatorium , the facilities of the promenade ring, numerous fountains, monuments and statues as well as several trade fair and important commercial buildings were built in the city center.

Judiciary Tröndlin was buried in the New Johannisfriedhof (today Friedenspark ). As a result of the secularization, his tombstone was placed in the old Johannisfriedhof . In 1908 the street Am Löhrschen Platz , part of the Leipzig inner city ring , was named after him in Tröndlinring .

literature

• Rudolf Dimpfel: The Mayor of Leipzig, Dr. Carl Bruno Trondlin. A picture of life . Wilhelm Heims Verlag, Leipzig 1935.
• Karin Kühling, Doris Mundus: Leipzig's ruling mayors from the 13th century to the present. An overview with biographical sketches. Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2000, ISBN 3-934544-02-9 , p. 64.
• Bernhard Haunfelder: The Liberal Members of the German Reichstag 1871-1918. A biographical manual . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3-402-12829-9 , p. 405.

Web links

• Carl Bruno Tröndlin in the database of members of the Reichstag