Georg Bender

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Georg Bender, painting by Eduard Kaempffer (original lost after 1945)
Medal for Georg Bender's silver wedding anniversary, obverse
Medal for Georg Bender's silver wedding anniversary, reverse

Georg Bender (born December 31, 1848 in Königsberg , Prussia , † February 4, 1924 in Breslau ) was a German local politician and long-time mayor of the city of Breslau .

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Georg Bender was born as the son of the manor owner and later member of the Prussian House of Representatives, Dr. phil. Karl Ludwig Bender (1811-1893) and Ida Bender, b. Cheese worm, born. After attending the old town high school in Königsberg , he studied law in Jena and Königsberg from 1868 to 1872 . In Jena in 1868 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar . As a one-year volunteer , he took part in the Franco-German War of 1870/71 . In 1872 he became a trainee lawyer and in February 1878 a court assessor and, for a short time, a district judge in Marggrabowa in East Prussia . On November 1, 1878 he became city ​​councilor and syndic , in 1880 second and in 1888 first mayor of the city of Thorn in West Prussia . There he had a slaughterhouse , the Artus Court , an infirmary and an orphanage built. He arranged the Thorner Stadtarchiv and wrote some articles on the history of the town. When he left, he was made an honorary citizen .

From April 1, 1891 to September 30, 1912 he was Lord Mayor of Breslau and as such a member of the Prussian mansion . During his time as head of the city, many charitable buildings were built, such as the slaughterhouse and cattle yard (1896), two market halls (1908), the new urban aqueduct (1900), the electricity works (around 1900), the gas station (1907), the electrical one Tram (1893), electrification (1899) and urbanization (1911) of the former horse-drawn tram , the port (1901), the technical college (1910) as well as numerous green spaces and schools. During his tenure, the area of ​​Wroclaw increased through incorporations from 3000 to 5000 hectares . The population grew from 340,000 to 540,000. He reorganized the building industry and the building police (from 1900) and ensured the complete transformation of the public education and welfare system .

Bender was deputy chairman of the Silesian Provincial Parliament and the Provincial Committee as well as deputy chairman of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture (later its honorary member); also honorary member of the Coppernicus Association for Science and Art in Thorn and member of numerous other scientific societies. In addition, he was a member of the Breslau District Synod from 1892 to 1915 , from which he was sent to the Silesian Provincial Synods from 1893 to 1908. In 1899 he received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wroclaw on the occasion of the opening of the Silesian Museum of Applied Arts and Antiquities . He later also became Dr. med. hc from the University of Wroclaw, Dr. Ing.hc of the Technical University of Wroclaw and honorary citizen of the city. A square in Breslau was named after him.

On December 29, 1878, he married Margarethe Konrad, with whom he had four daughters.

Works

  • Archival contributions to the family history of Nikolaus Coppernicus . In: Communications of the Coppernicus Association for Science and Art in Thorn . Volume 3, Issue 2, Thorn, 1881, pp. 61-126
  • Further archival contributions to the family history of Nikolaus Coppernicus . In: Communications of the Coppernicus Association for Science and Art in Thorn. Volume 4, Issue 4. Thorn, 1882, pp. 81–116 ( digitized version )
  • The oldest arbitrariness of the new town of Thorn . In: Journal of the West Prussian History Association . Volume 7, 1882, pp. 95-126
  • History of the city hospital and public hospitals in Thorn . In: Journal of the West Prussian History Association . Volume 15, 1886, pp. 1-44
  • History of the municipal orphanages as well as the keeping of wills and alms in Thorn . Buchdruckerei Thorner Ostdeutsche Zeitung, Thorn 1891
  • Report on some administrative matters in the municipality of Thorn . Rathsbuchdruckerei, Thorn 1891
  • Home and folklore of the Koppernigk family (Coppernicus) (= representations and sources on Silesian history, Volume 27). Shepherd, Breslau 1920

literature

  • Franz Neubert (Ed.): German Contemporary Lexicon . Schulze, Leipzig 1905, Col. 81–82
  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 8th edition, Degener, Leipzig 1922, p. 90; 9th edition, 1928, p. 1772
  • Adolf Heilberg: Georg Bender . In: Friedrich Andreae [among others] (ed.): Schlesische Lebensbilder. Volume 2, Korn [et al.], Breslau [et al.] 1926, pp. 338–341 (with picture)
  • F. Schwarz: Bender, Georg . In: Christian Krollmann: Old Prussian Biography . Volume 1, Gräfe and Unzer, Königsberg 1941, pp. 45-46
  • Robert Samulski:  Bender, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 38 ( digitized version ).
  • Gerhard Jung:  Fredenhagen, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 386 f. ( Digitized version ). (Secondary entry in the genealogy)
  • Karl Masner and Hans Seger (eds.): Yearbook of the Silesian Museum for Applied Arts and Antiquities (= Silesian prehistory in pictures and writing. New series). Breslau 1900, Volume 1 , pp. 169–170 (in the article opening ceremony )
  • The association for the history of Silesia celebrates the seventieth birthday of its honorary member retired mayor Dr. phil. et med. hc Georg Bender on December 31, 1918 (= magazine of the Association for the History of Silesia, Volume 53, Issue 2). Hirt, Breslau 1919, therein: The Board of Directors of the Association for the History of Silesia: Honorable Lord Mayor! (Pp. 3 * -8 *); Adolf Heilberg: Wroclaw's urban development under Georg Bender (1891–1912) . (Pp. 9 * -37 *); Richard Spaeth: City parish and church affairs in Breslau 1891–1912 (pp. 38 * –61 *); Hugo Richter: Landscape beauty care of the Wroclaw city administration under Lord Mayor Georg Bender (p. 62 * –78 *); Richard Förster : Care of art and science on the part of the city of Breslau under Georg Bender (1891–1912) . (Pp. 133 * –142 *) online
  • Philipp Stauff : Semi-furrier. Volume 1, self-published, Berlin 1913, column 23. Anti-Semitic publication.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 77-78.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, p. 77.
  2. ↑ Benderplatz ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on a city map  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.breslau-wroclaw.de
personal data
SURNAME Bender, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician and long-time mayor of the city of Wroclaw
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg , Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1924
Place of death Wroclaw