Erich Zweigert

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Erich Zweigert

Wilhelm Erich Julius Lebrecht Erdmann Zweigert (born February 25, 1849 in Neustettin , †  May 27, 1906 in Essen ) was a German lawyer and local politician.

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Honorary grave of the city of Essen in the east cemetery

Erich Zweigert was the son of a president of the appellate court . He graduated from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin , after which he studied law in Berlin, Halle and Heidelberg . On September 19, 1877, Zweigert became a court assessor, then an assistant judge at various district courts and district judge in Potsdam .

Erich Zweigert was first mayor of Guben in Brandenburg from February 8, 1881 to 1886 . After he was elected Lord Mayor of Essen on June 1, 1886, and this election was confirmed by the highest cabinet order of August 9, 1886, he was in office from October 2, 1886 until his death. In 1898 he sat on the first supervisory board of the recently founded Elektrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft RWE , but did not own any company shares himself. He also represented the city of Essen in the Prussian manor house and in the Rhenish provincial parliament .

After he submitted a retirement application on April 4, 1906, a few weeks before his death, due to his poor health, the city council unanimously granted him honorary citizenship of the city of Essen on April 20, 1906 - in recognition of his immortal services to the city of Essen and the great importance of his official duties for the development of the city . In addition, Zweigert was awarded the Red Eagle Order 2nd Class with Oak Leaves and the Prussian Royal Crown Order 2nd Class .

Zweigert was buried in the cemetery at Kettwiger Tor . After its closure in 1955, the crypt was moved to the Ostfriedhof Essen . After the original was destroyed in World War II in the 1950s, the tombstone there was recreated from inferior rock and is now heavily weathered. The Zweigertstrasse in Rüttenscheid and the Zweigertbrücke in Altenessen- Nord are named after him. In addition, friends erected a memorial stone in the city forest in 1909 to commemorate Zweigert's services in its creation. His grave is now one of around 40 honorary graves in the city.

literature

  • Paul Brandi: Erich Zweigert (1849–1906). In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsbiographien. Volume IV, Aschendorff, Münster 1941, pp. 187-216.
  • essener strassen - city history as reflected in the street names. Richard Bracht publishing house, Essen 1979, ISBN 3-87034-030-4 .
  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
  • Essen personalities: biographical essays on the administrative and cultural history of Essen . Schmidt-Verlag, Neustadt / Aisch 1986.
  • Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff, Hermann Strasser : Heads of the Ruhr. 200 years of industrial history and structural change in the light of biographies . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0036-3 , p. 111-115 .

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