Carl Contag
Carl Ernst Contag (born August 7, 1863 in Lyck , Masuria ; † February 17, 1934 in Nordhausen , Province of Saxony ) was a German administrative lawyer and municipal official. As Lord Mayor of Nordhausen, he sat in the Prussian mansion.
Life
Contag attended the Royal Lyck High School and studied law at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1881 he became active in the Corps Masovia . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . There he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . In 1889 he passed the exam to become a court assessor . The city of Königsberg i. Pr. Accepted him in the same year as magistrate's assistant . Left-liberal and liberal, he became a city councilor in Insterburg in 1890 . In 1891 he came to Elbing as second mayor .
The city council of Nordhausen elected him mayor on July 19, 1899 with a narrow majority. The Prussian state government had tried in vain to prevent the election of the free-thinking Contag in the left-liberal dominated municipality. Regardless of this, he was appointed to the Prussian mansion in 1900 . Until 1918 he sat in the "OB faction". In the quarter of a century of Contag's tenure, Nordhausen's town house, public bath, town theater and sewer system were built. He led the city through the First World War , the November Revolution and German inflation from 1914 to 1923 . When he left on September 30, 1924, he was granted honorary citizenship. He retired in Nordhausen. He died at the age of 70.
family
Carl Contag was married to Margareta Lina Pastenaci (1865–1911), daughter of Adolf Pastenaci from Tilsit. The marriage had five children. After the death of his wife in 1921, he married Hertha Hogrefe (1885–1971), a daughter of Robert Hogrefe, herzogl. persistent. Domain tenant on Schwägerau and member of the Prussian House of Representatives. This marriage remained childless.
Fonts
- Nordhausen in the war and post-war period , in: The thousand year old Nordhausen , 2nd part. Nordhausen am Harz 1927, pp. 305-370.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 87/761.
- ↑ a b German Biographical Encyclopedia 2, Volume 2 (GoogleBooks)
- ↑ Nordhausen district (territorial.de)
- ↑ Nordhausen town hall
- ^ Theater Nordhausen
- ↑ City drainage Nordhausen
- ↑ Waldhausen district (territorial.de)
Carl Contag (1899–1924) | Curt Baller (1924–1933) | Heinz Sting (1933–1935) | Johannes Meister (1935–1942) | Herbert Meyer (1943–1945) | Otto Flagmeyer (1945) | Richard Senger (1945) | Karl Schultes (1945–1946) | Hans Himmler (1946–1952) | Alfred Meyer (1952–1953) | Heinz Andree (1953–1957) | Friedrich Giessner (1957–1963) | Kurt Juch (1963–1973) | Fritz Lande (1973–1981) | Herbert Otto (1981–1985) | Peter Heiter (1985–1990) | Olaf Dittmann (1990) | Manfred Schröter (1990–1994) | Barbara Rinke (1994–2012) | Klaus Zeh (2012–2017) | Kai Buchmann (since 2017)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Contag, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Contag, Carl Ernst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer and municipal civil servant; Lord Mayor of Nordhausen; Member of the Prussian manor house |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elk , Masuria |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1934 |
| Place of death | Nordhausen , Province of Saxony |