Fritz Bottler

Fritz Bottler (born October 22, 1870 in Wittlich ; † August 7, 1922 in Bad Oeynhausen ) was Lord Mayor of Bonn from 1920 to 1922 .

The son of Wittlich mayor August Bottler and his wife Sophie (née Berres) studied law and economics after attending school in Bonn, Freiburg im Breisgau and Würzburg . During his studies in 1890 he became a member of the Normannia Bonn student union . In 1898 he passed the assessor examination and went to the provincial administration in Düsseldorf. From here he moved to Bonn city administration in 1901, where he was promoted to councilor a short time later. Over the next few years, he headed almost all of the important departments, but mainly focused on the finance department. Under his leadership, the private horse-drawn tram was bought and converted into an electric tram.

After the resignation of Lord Mayor Wilhelm Spiritus , the city council elected Bottler as his successor in 1920. He was only granted a short term in office. Long suffering, he suffered a stroke on the way back from Berlin in Bad Oeynhausen in 1922 and died the next day. He was buried in the Poppelsdorf cemetery .

His party was the German People's Party .

In his honor, part of Mülheimer Platz between Windeckstraße and Vivatsgasse was renamed “Bottlerplatz” in 1926.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , p. 129.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bottlerplatz in the Bonn street cadastre