Fritz Landenberger

Fritz Landenberger (born May 25, 1892 in Schramberg , † April 5, 1978 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German politician.

Life

Landenberger was one of eleven children of Paul Landenberger and his wife Frida, daughter of Erhard Junghans . He attended the Latin School in Schramberg and the Realgymnasium in Stuttgart . He then studied law and medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich , Tübingen and Jena . During his studies in 1910 he became a member of the Franconia Freiberg fraternity . He interrupted his studies during the First World War , where he worked, among other things, as a medical sergeant in Tübingen and later as a field doctor and the reserve hospitals in Nürtingen and Friedrichshafen . After the war he received his doctorate in Tübingen. med. In 1919 he moved to Würzburg , where he worked as an assistant at the university's eye clinic, where he also trained as an ophthalmologist, which he successfully completed in 1923. Both in Ebingen and in Schramberg he failed when he tried to set up his own practice. That's why he took up a job in his father's company, the Hamburg-American watch factory. After this was taken over by Junghans in 1927 , Landenberger moved to Esslingen, where he again opened an ophthalmological practice, this time successfully. During the Second World War he was a hospital doctor for a short time, after which the military deployed him as a medical examiner in Esslingen, Waiblingen , Schorndorf and Stuttgart. He led the practice until 1975, until then he was involved in a number of professional organizations.

Landenberger married Gertrud Raddatz on August 23, 1919, whom he had met while studying medicine in Tübingen. She died on November 24, 1975. The couple remained childless.

politics

Landenberger's political career began in 1923 when he joined the German Democratic Party . Until the dissolution of the party in 1933 he was involved there with speeches. After the end of World War II, he took part in negotiations with the Americans about the peaceful surrender of the city of Esslingen. Joseph J. Taylor, Major of the Americans, appointed him District Administrator of the Esslingen District on April 25, 1945 and Mayor of the City of Esslingen on September 1. In the latter position he was confirmed by the city council in June 1946, in the post of district administrator he was replaced by Georg Geist in August 1946 . During his term of office, the provisional parliament of Württemberg-Baden met , to which he belonged as a representative of the district administrators. In 1948 he was defeated in the election of the new mayor Dieter Roser . Since then, Landenberger has concentrated on his work as an ophthalmologist.

Honors

On May 25, 1977, Landenberger's 85th birthday, a street in Esslingen was given the name Landenbergerstrasse . There is a Landenberger memorial room in Schramberg Castle .

legacy

A large part of Landenbeger's estate is kept in the Esslingen city archive, while some of the other part he bequeathed to the Stuttgart Main State Archive during his lifetime . Half of his fortune went to his place of birth Schramberg and half to his last place of residence in Esslingen. In Schramberg the castle was restored and transformed into a cultural center. In Esslingen the assets went to the Dr. Fritz Landenberger Foundation . It has supported projects in culture, art and science in the Esslingen city area since 1980 and has been awarding the Dr. Fritz Landenberger Prize . This is given in particular to younger scientists who have written outstanding work on the city of Esslingen.

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , p. 221.

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personal data
SURNAME	Landenberger, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ophthalmologist and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schramberg
DATE OF DEATH	April 5th 1978
Place of death	Esslingen am Neckar