Emil Bartelt

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Emil Bartelt (born February 8, 1870 in Itzehoe , † April 11, 1947 in Bredstedt ) was a German administrative lawyer and Lord Mayor of Wilhelmshaven .

Career

Bartelt studied law and political science at the Universities of Freiburg and Kiel . He then worked as a magistrate's assistant in Flensburg and from April 1, 1903 as a paid city ​​councilor in Eberswalde .

Bartelt was unanimously elected mayor of Wilhelmshaven on April 28, 1906. He took over the office on October 1, 1906 as the successor to Hans Ziegner-Gnuechtel . Bartelt pursued a pragmatic policy and tried to promote the economic development of the city on a solid financial basis. Through lengthy negotiations with the imperial government about the accelerated expansion of the Imperial Shipyard , he was able to avert the impending collapse of the speculatively inflated Wilhelmshaven housing and property market. He also saw it as an important task to make Wilhelmshaven a district-free city . This succeeded on April 1, 1919. In the same year Bartelt was re-elected, now with the title of mayor. During the First World War, he was responsible for supplying the residents with food and necessities. At the same time he was a member of the Hanover Provincial Landtag for the Wittmund constituency during the war years from 1915 to 1919 . On September 1, 1919, he changed constituencies. Raint Janßen succeeded him in the Wittmund constituency , and he himself took over the Wilhelmshafen-Stadt constituency. In 1920 he resigned from the provincial assembly and was elected as a deputy member of the provincial committee.

Since the end of the war, Bartelt, who in the meantime had built up a well-ordered and qualified bureaucratic apparatus, was determined to encourage private companies to take the initiative. He wanted to use the buildings and shipyards that were no longer required by the Reichsmarine, which had been reduced to 15,000 men, for an economically sensible use. The need for scrapping capacities only led to a short-term boom in this area. The introduction of the Rentenmark in the late autumn of 1923 brought this to an abrupt end and almost all newly settled companies had to close. From 1925, many unemployed people could be employed at short notice through emergency work in the construction sector, i.e. job creation measures for the implementation of various urban development projects, such as dikes, expansion of parks and urban administration buildings. In addition, on October 6, 1925, the so-called WRIHALA contract (named after the Wilhelmshaven-Rüstringer-Industriehafen- und Lagerhausgesellschaft) with the Reichswehr Ministry and the Admiralty was supposed to promote mixed-economy enterprises of the city administration. Here too, however, the successes were minor.

The revitalization of the seaside resort was more successful, with which attempts were made in the second half of the 1920s to create another civil and economic mainstay for the city by expanding tourism . The increasing number of guests up to 1932 also ensured a temporary improvement in the city's economic situation.

In 1933 Bartelt had to resign under pressure from the National Socialists and was temporarily replaced on June 22nd in the course of the conformity of local administrations by NSDAP member Carl Heinrich Renken , then officially on December 20th, 1933. Bartelt was given leave of absence and was subsequently discredited by criminal proceedings.

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  1. ↑ Hartmut Siefken: Promenade by the water . Wilhelmshavener Zeitung . Supplement Wilhelmshaven in old and new pictures . September 26, 2011, pp. 20f.
personal data
SURNAME Bartelt, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and Lord Mayor of Wilhelmshaven
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Itzehoe
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1947
Place of death Bredstedt