Carl Wedderkopf

Carl Wilhelm Wedderkopf (also Karl Wilhelm; * 1885 ; † 1961 ) was a German local politician ( SPD ) and from 1922 to 1927 first elected mayor of Freital .

life and career

Wedderkopf comes from Demmin . In 1921 he received his doctorate in Munich with his dissertation on the development of youth legislation and youth welfare in Germany as a doctor of rights.

On March 16, 1922, Carl Wedderkopf was elected mayor of the town of Freital , which was founded on October 1, 1921 from the merger of the municipalities of Deuben , Döhlen and Potschappel . He took office on May 1, 1922 as the successor to the former Potschappl community board member Max Baumann, who had been acting on a provisional basis until then. From 1924 he carried the title of Lord Mayor . During his tenure, Wedderkopf pushed ahead with the development of an extensive urban social system and the planning for a joint center for the young city at Neumarkt Döhlen. However, due to the increasingly precarious financial situation at the end of the 1920s, both projects could not or only partially be implemented.

After Wedderkopf had to give up his office as mayor in 1927 due to health problems, Gustav Klimpel was his successor.

Publications

• The development of youth legislation and youth welfare in Germany . Munich 1921 (dissertation)
• (with Karl Söhnle, editor-in-chief) Freital . (= Germany's urban development ) Deutscher Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag (DARI), Berlin-Halensee 1924 (153 pages, with images and 5 plates)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Juliane Puls: Freital. On the way to the city . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2000, ISBN 3-89702-227-3 , p. 107 .
2. ↑ Mayor since 1921. In: freital.de. City of Freital, accessed on August 7, 2018 .