Eugen Emil Arthur Kulenkamp

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Senator Arthur Kuhlenkamp
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Eschenburgstrasse 7
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Eugen Emil Arthur Kulenkamp (* May 25, 1860 in Lübeck ; † May 22, 1933 ibid) was a lawyer and notary as well as a senator of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Kulenkamp was a son of the mayor of Lübeck Arthur Gustav Kulenkamp . He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until he graduated from high school in Easter 1879 and studied law at the University of Tübingen from 1880 ; here he became a member of the Corps Suevia . After the assessor examination in Celle in 1888 , he was admitted to the bar in his home town of Lübeck in the same year as his father. In 1897 he was elected as a member of the citizenship after the death of his father and became a member of the citizens' committee from 1899.

He worked for the renowned law firm of the lawyers Dres. Plessing , Kulenkamp and v. Brocken active. When the Senate him in place of the previous year in the retirement came Heinrich Theodor Behn to Senator appointed, presented Eduard Kulenkamp , county judge at the district court of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck and the Lübeckischen principality , to the Senate's request from the lübeckischen government services to be released, in order to be able to take the now vacant position of his brother as a lawyer and notary. This request was granted.

He was on the board of various institutions of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . Already as a member of the citizenship, and later as a senator, he unfolded his meritorious work in the school and tax authorities. In 1902 he became the city's senator. The tax authorities came to an end with the reorganization of 1919.

The most important of his senate offices was the high school authority, which he also presided over from 1909. As its chairman, he spoke at the VI , which met in 1911 in Lübeck . German Esperanto Congress . He believed in the future of Esperanto and supported efforts to introduce it as a future school subject. As chairman of the high school authority, as an education politician , he steered the school policy of the Lübeck state, which was committed to reform pedagogy , and the expansion of the high school into the cathedral and the Johanneum in Lübeck as secondary schools . In addition, he was a member of the Central Poor Commission, police officer, responsible for the factory and penitentiary and chairman of the housing maintenance authority.

In addition, he served the German Red Cross from 1907 as a state delegate for voluntary nursing during the war and was a member of the Lübeck medical column . During the war he was responsible for the Lübeck hospital system, the station service and all collecting activities.

From 1918 Senator Kulenkamp acted as permanent Senate Commissioner in the negotiations of the citizenship.

After the war, his activities turned to the homeland and its manifold emergencies.

He lived in the house Eschenburgstrasse 7, built for him by the architects Schöss and Redelstorff, which served as the Swedish embassy in Lübeck towards the end of the Second World War. Here the meeting between Count Folke Bernadotte and Heinrich Himmler took place on 23/24. April 1945.

literature

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling , Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck 1925 No. 1027
  • Kösener corps lists 1960
  • Jan Zimmermann: St. Gertrud 1860-1945 , Temmen, Bremen 2007, p. 119
  • Karl-Ernst Sinner: Tradition and Progress. Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1918-2007 , Volume 46 of Series B of the publications on the history of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck published by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2008, p. 156

Web links

Commons : Eugen Emil Arthur Kulenkamp  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) ( digitized version , University and State Library Düsseldorf ), No. 801
  2. Suevia-Tübingen 1831-1931 . Volume 2: Members. Tübingen 1931, p. 194 (No. 332).
  3. Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 66, number 40, edition of October 6, 1901, p. 495.
  4. Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 67, number 3, edition of January 19, 1902, p. 39.
  5. ^ 6th German Esperanto Congress in Lübeck / Bundestag of the German Esperanto Association. In: Lübecker General-Anzeiger , Volume 30, No. 131, edition of June 7, 1911, pp. 13-14.
  6. ^ The 6th German Esperanto Congress in Lübeck. In: Lübecker Volksbote , Volume 18, No. 130, edition of June 7, 1911.
  7. ^ The 6th German Esperanto Congress in Lübeck. In: Lübecker Nachrichten and Eisenbahnzeitung , Volume 70, No. 131, Issue of June 7, 1911, Sheet 2.