Friedrich Haumann
Friedrich called Fritz Haumann (born February 21, 1857 in Elberfeld (today a district of Wuppertal ); † November 7, 1924 in Cologne ) was a German civil servant , Lord Mayor and General Director .
Origin and education
The Protestant Fritz Haumann was born as the son of the railway calculator (commercial clerk in corporate accounting) Gustav Friedrich Haumann and Margaretha Haumann, née. Krause was born. After attending grammar school in his hometown, which he left when he passed the school leaving examination in 1876, he studied law in Berlin and Bonn . After being appointed court assessor in 1884, he temporarily worked as a lawyer in Elberfeld .
Activity in local government
On January 11, 1886, Haumann moved to the local government with his appointment as 2nd salaried alderman of the city of Essen . After only three years, he was elected mayor of Oberhausen on July 6, 1889 , which at that time was still part of the Mülheim an der Ruhr district . His inauguration followed on October 1, 1889. By the election of May 28, 1894, he then succeeded the longtime Solingen mayor Gustav van Meenen (1827–1912, mayor from 1870 to 1894) on September 3, 1894. After the departure of the city district of Solingen on April 1, 1896 from the association of the district of Solingen , the award of the title of Lord Mayor followed on May 15, 1896. On June 30, 1896, however, he resigned from office because he was transferring to the private sector .
Activity in the private sector
On July 1, 1896, Haumann took over as director of the Rheinische Bahngesellschaft in Düsseldorf. The company was founded on March 25, 1896 by the councilors Heinrich Lueg , Franz Haniel , August Bagel and the secret councilor Friedrich Vohwinkel and had a capital of 12 million marks. After the development of building land on a large scale to raise capital, on areas of the former municipality of Heerdt , in Oberkassel , Niederkassel , Ober- and Niederloerick , the primary goal was to build a bridge over the Rhine to connect Düsseldorf with the left bank of the Rhine and to put the “First Electric” into operation Small express train in Europe ”. On July 1, 1906, Haumann joined the Cologne-based company Vereinigte Stahlwerke van der Zypoen and Wissener Eisenhütten AG as general director . When his contract expired in 1917, he was a member of the company's supervisory board, which among other things produced wagons for trams and small railways. According to Steller, the lawyer Haumann enjoyed "a high reputation in the Rhenish-Westphalian iron and steel industry because of his outstanding intellectual and convivial qualities and because of his excellent ability to manage large companies."
family
Friedrich Haumann married Auguste ( Gussi ) Schnabel, a daughter of the Elberfeld merchant Heinrich Schnabel , on August 15, 1885 in Elberfeld . They had five children: Otto, Ernst, Helmut, Margret and Erika. His descendants are the lawyer and association synic Ernst Hellmuth Haumann and the editor Rüdiger Haumann.
literature
- Max Bär : The administrative constitution of the Rhine Province since 1815. (Publications of the Society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde XXXV), Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998 (second reprint of the Bonn 1919 edition), ISBN 3-7700-7600-1 , pp. 254, 292.
- Volkmar Grobe: Düsseldorf light rail. From the beginnings of track-guided traffic to the rapid transit railway connecting cities. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88255-848-7 , p. 23 f.
- Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 304.514 .
- Paul Steller: Leading men of the Rhenish-Westphalian economic life. Published by Reimar Hobbing , Berlin 1930, p. 98.
Web links
- Solingen mayor on zeitspurensuche.de
- History of Rheinbahn AG on rheinbahn.de
- http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/cdm/ref/collection/grhg/id/50426
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kölnische Volkszeitung . No. 873 of November 9, 1924.
- ^ "Search for time tracks: Solingen: Mayor". Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
- ^ Volkmar Grobe: Stadtbahn Düsseldorf. From the beginnings of track-guided traffic to the rapid transit railway connecting cities. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88255-848-7 , p. 23 f.
- ↑ Kölnische Volkszeitung. No. 873 of November 9, 1924.
- ^ Paul Steller: Leading men of the Rhenish-Westphalian economic life. Published by Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1930, p. 98.
Friedrich Haumann (1894–1896) | August Dicke (1896–1928) | Hermann Schmidhäusler (1928–1930) | Josef Brisch (1930–1933) | Helmut Otto (1933–1937) | Rudolf Brückmann (1937–1945) | Oskar Rieß (1945) | Josef Brisch (1945–1946) | Albert Müller (1946) | Gerhard Hebborn (1946–1948) | Eugen Maurer (1948–1955) | Karl Haberland (1955–1961) | Otto Voos (1961–1964) | Heinz Dunkel (1964–1972) | Elisabeth Roock (1973–1975) | Otto Voos (1975-1976) | Georg Schlößer (1976–1984) | Gerd Kaimer (1984-1997) | Ulrich Uibel (1997–1999) | Franz Haug (1999–2009) | Norbert Feith (2009–2015) | Tim Kurzbach (since 2015)
Friedrich August Schwartz (1863–1889) | Friedrich Haumann (1889-1896) | Otto Wippermann (1896–1906) | Berthold Otto Havenstein (1906–1930) | Wilhelm Heuser (1930–1938) | Wilhelm Eberhard Gelberg (1938) | Bernhard Legge (1938–1942) | Ernst Bollmann (1942–1945) | Wilhelm Thyssen (acting) (1945) | Karl Haendly (acting) (1945) | Georg Kaessler (acting) (1945–1946) | Karl Feih (1946) | Luise Albertz (1946–1948) | Otto Aschmann (1948–1952) | Otto Pannenbecker (1952–1956) | Luise Albertz (1956–1979) | Friedhelm van den Mond (1979–1997) | Burkhard Drescher (1997-2004) | Klaus Wehling (2004–2015) | Daniel Schranz (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haumann, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haumann, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil servant and general director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1924 |
| Place of death | Cologne |