Friedrich Weiberg

Friedrich Weiberg (born February 16, 1870 in Westhofen , † December 16, 1946 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German administrative officer , politician and acting mayor of Wanne-Eickel .

Life

After graduating from school, Friedrich Weiberg joined the mayor's office in Gevelsberg as an administrative candidate in 1887 . After completing his training in 1890, he moved to the Castrop office in 1892 and from there to the Royal Arnsberg Government in 1893 . Further service stations were (temporarily) the district treasury in Hagen and the district office in Hörde in 1895 . This was followed in 1896 by the Gelsenkirchen District Office and the Dortmund District Office , before he took up the post of paid assistant to the Wanne office on November 10, 1900 . On September 30, 1901, this office was definitively assigned to him. As the successor to Friedrich Winter , Weiberg was appointed bailiff of the Wanne office on October 18, 1913 . Weiberg remained in this position until its dissolution as a result of the formation of the city of Wanne-Eickel on April 1, 1926. Subsequently, he held the post of provisional until the introduction of the first elected mayor of the city of Wanne-Eickel on October 1, 1926, Wilhelm Kiwit Mayor of the city of Wanne-Eickel. Friedrich Weiberg was a member of the German People's Party .

Wanne-Herten airport

Initiated by the then alderman Weiberg, a Parseval airship landed on a plot of land in Wanne on June 20, 1911 , and the Wanne-Herten airfield ( Lage ) was born. Under the leadership of Weiberg, the "Rheinisch-Westfälische Flug- und Sport-Platz-Gesellschaft mbH Wanne" was founded in 1912, whose capital, in addition to the municipalities of Wanne and Herten, also included the city of Herne, the landowner Count Droste zu Vischering von Nesselrode-Reichenstein in Herten, Director Arthur Müller from Berlin-Charlottenburg, the Eickeler Brewery Hülsmann and captain Hermann Hans Waldemar Herwarth von Bitterfeld signed. Friedrich Weiberg took over the chairmanship of the company's supervisory board. While an operational area could initially be handed over to the aviators for use after only a few months, including a grandstand that could hold up to 1,000 visitors, the flight hall and balloon hall, financial difficulties set in before the First World War , so that on May 6, 1916 a bankruptcy petition had to be filed . The settlement did not end until the 1920s.

Fonts

• as publisher: 50 years of the Wanne office. Self-published, Wanne 1925.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia XXII A, Historical Works on Westphalian State Research, Economic and Social History Group, Volume 16), Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 305.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual.
2. ↑ The history of the Wanne-Herten airfield. on wanne-eickel-historie.de, accessed on January 5, 2014.