Carl Wilhelm Petersen

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Carl Wilhelm Petersen (1920 or earlier)

Carl Wilhelm Petersen (born January 31, 1868 in Hamburg ; † November 6, 1933 ibid) was a lawyer , German politician ( DDP ) and first mayor of Hamburg from 1924 to 1930 and from 1932 to March 1933 .

family

Cushion tombstone Carl Wilh. Petersens in the family grave complex of Mayor Petersen , Ohlsdorf cemetery

His father was Gustav Petersen (1838–1911). Petersen's grandfather Carl Friedrich Petersen (1809–1892) was one of the most important Hamburg mayors of the 19th century. His other grandfather was Leopold Wilhelm Behrens , owner of the Hamburg banking and trading company L. Behrens & Sons . He is also the older brother of the businessman and later Hamburg's first post-war mayor, Rudolf Petersen (1878–1962).

Life and work

Petersen grew up in a very wealthy family. He was of Protestant faith and passed his Abitur in Kiel . He studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg , and at the University of Leipzig . Petersen received his doctorate in law in 1890 and established himself as a lawyer in Hamburg. He was later awarded a Doctor of Medicine degree. Petersen was very wealthy, in the ranking of the richest Hamburgers published in 1912, Petersen is listed among the 200 richest people in Hamburg with a fortune of around 2.5 million marks. He was a member of the Academic Club of Hamburg (1891), the Hansabund and the German Federation for Land Reform .

Political party

During the Empire, Petersen belonged to the Progressive People's Party . In 1919 he was a founding member of the German Democratic Party and in the same year (after the death of Friedrich Naumann ) became its first chairman. After handing over the office to Erich Koch-Weser in 1924 , in the end of the Weimar Republic in 1932, together with Reinhold Maier and Hermann Dietrich, he became party chairman of what was now known as the German State Party.

MP

Petersen was first elected member of the Hamburg Parliament for the Pöseldorfer Citizens' Association in 1899 and held this post until 1918 . Petersen, who was initially the right-wing group . was one of the founders of the United Liberals faction in the Citizenship, of which he was chairman , after the fraudulent electoral robbery in 1906 . From 1921 to 1924 and 1928 to 1933 he was again a member of the town hall.

Petersen was a member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919/20 and was a member of the Reichstag for the DDP from 1920 to January 30, 1924 , and he was elected as the second parliamentary group leader. In the National Assembly he was chairman of the committee of inquiry into the guilt questions of the world war .

Public offices

On April 20, 1918, Petersen was elected to the Hamburg Senate . Petersen resigned with the entire previous Senate on March 27, 1919, he was re-elected in the new election on March 28, 1919 with 103 votes (out of 160) and then belonged to the Senate until March 1933. From January 1, 1924 to December 31, 1929 he was First Mayor of Hamburg, 1930/31 Second Mayor, and from January 1, 1932 to March 7, 1933 again First Mayor (see also Hamburg Senate 1919–1933 ). When the National Socialists came to power , he lost his office. In his letter of resignation of March 4, 1933, it says:

"[...] The developments that are now taking place seem to me to make demands on the President of the Hamburg Senate that are neither related to the Hamburg tradition nor to the particularity of this office."

- quoted from Heinrich Erdmann

Honors

After Petersen is Carl-Petersen-Straße in Hamburg-Hamm named.

literature

  • Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Petersen, Carl . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 246-248 .
  • Erich Lüth and Hans-Dieter Loose : Mayor Carl Petersen 1868–1933. Carl Petersen - pioneer of the alliance between citizens and workers in Hamburg. Carl Petersen in the mirror of personal documents , edited by the Association for Hamburg History (= lectures and essays , Volume 18), Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1971, ISBN 3-7672-0010-4 .
  • Sigrid Schambach: Carl Petersen (= Hamburg heads ), Ellert and Richter, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-89234-943-6 .
  • Claudia Graciela Petersen: The daughter of the 'Doge'. The life and work of the Hamburg mayor's daughter Antonie Petersen , Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-96023-062-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Martin (Ed.): Yearbook of the wealth and income of millionaires in the three Hansa cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck) , Berlin 1912, p. 23.
  2. ↑ These group names are not comparable with today's political directions, but were professionally oriented: The group of the left was mainly formed by craftsmen, in the group of the center left the representatives of the industry gathered and in the group of the right the big merchants met, cf. Brauers, Die FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953 , Munich 2007, p. 46, note 12.
  3. ^ He was followed on February 6, 1924 by Johannes Büll (DDP).
  4. ^ Carl August Schröder : From Hamburg's heyday , Hamburg 1921, p. 360.
  5. ↑ Heinrich Erdmann: The "electoral robbery" of 1906 as a breach of tradition. On the relationship between the Senate and the citizenship according to the constitutions of 1860 and 1879, 1906, 1919 . In: State Center for Political Education Hamburg (Hrsg.): Hamburg in the first quarter of the 20th century. The time of the politician Otto Stolten. Seven papers , Hamburg 2000, p. 48.
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Carl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DDP), MdHB, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1933
Place of death Hamburg