Carl Heinsohn

Senator Carl Heinsohn

Carl Andreas Georg Heinsohn (born February 22, 1872 in Lübeck ; † September 20, 1962 there ) was a German master craftsman and senator of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

origin

Carl was born the son of the master painter Wilhelm Heinsohn . He had married Therese, with two sons and daughters each, and lived at Johannisstrasse 72 .

career

Carl attended the Lütgendorff-Leinburg School of Art from 1878 to 1886 before he was an apprentice for four years in the business of his father, who had already worked for several years as head master of the painters' guild in the Lübeck citizenship . He then worked as a journeyman in several cities in Germany and Switzerland for over ten years . One year later he was a student of Professor Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg .

Back in Lübeck, after continuing to work in his father's business, he founded his own painting business in 1900.

The Senate voted on 13 October 1906 in accordance with § 2 of the Act of 3 October 1906 concerning the collection of business tax from the enterprises of the guest or tavern and the wine trade with brandy or alcohol in the to be formed Commission , which the taxable businesses to The purpose of collecting the business tax was to divide him, K. EB Schön, Ch. L. Haukohl, Max Thiele , W. Borguard and H. Th. J. Barbenderde as civil deputies .

For the first time, Heinsohn was elected to the citizenry between 1911 and 1921 . During this time he was a member of the Citizens Committee on several occasions . Since 1915 he was a member of the high school authority and since 1918 the works authority. Having now on 10 February 1924 as a member of the German People's Party was elected (DVP), back to the citizenship, he was by a large majority on March 3, the year of her as first deputy spokesman, Gustav Ehlers , in their Presidium elected.

Heinsohn had been a member of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce since 1921 and was elected its vice-president on April 1, 1925.

Furthermore, he was chairman of the trade association since 1919, chief master of the painters' guild since 1918, member of the board of the "Reichsbund for the German painting industry Gau Nord" since 1919 and chairman of the Lübeck "Lübeck crafts association" in 1920.

On April 27, 1925, the first deputy of the citizen's spokesman, the painter Carl Heinsohn, was elected part-time senator. With this election, an old wish of the Lübeck trade - because he was the first Lübeck senator of that class - was fulfilled. When the Lübeck Senate was brought into line in 1933 by the National Socialists, he was to hold this office. Heinsohn resigned as senator on March 13, 1933.

As a Freemason he belonged to the Lübeck Lodge on the cornucopia.

literature

• Gerhard Schneider : Endangering and Loss of Statehood of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck and its Consequences. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1986, ISBN 3-7950-0452-7 , pp. 65-68 (on the reform of the Reich), pp. 79-82 (on 1933).
• Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918–2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of Publications on the History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Lübeck 2008, p. 110 ff.
• The new Presidium of the Citizenship. In Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1923/24, No. 8, edition of March 23, 1924, pp. 29–30.
• Senator Carl Heinsohn. In Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1924/25, No. 18, edition of May 24, 1925.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 48, number 42, edition of October 21, 1906, p. 608.
2. ↑ In the field of handicrafts, a head master is the chairman of a guild.