Georg Calsow

Georg Calsow's grave in the Göttingen city cemetery.

Georg Friedrich Calsow (born November 21, 1857 in Timmendorf on Poel , † February 12, 1931 in Göttingen ) was Lord Mayor of the city of Göttingen.

Life

Georg Calsow attended the large city school Wismar and studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and Kiel from 1877 . In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Bremensia .

In 1890 he became the city's senator in Göttingen, took over the position of mayor in 1893 as Georg Merkel's successor and in 1903 received the title of mayor. The main focus of his activity was initially the redevelopment of the city budget. During his tenure until 1926, in addition to residential buildings, important new buildings were built in the city, such as the power station (1899), the Gänseliesel fountain (1901), the town house (1902), the eye clinic, the town bath house (1906), the fire station ( 1907), the children's clinic (1910), the trade school and the municipal hospital (1912). From 1897 to 1920 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Hanover .

The medical faculty of the Georg August University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1915. When he left the office of mayor, he became an honorary citizen of the city of Göttingen. The Calsowstrasse in Göttingen's east quarter is named after him.

literature

• Walter Nissen, Christina Prauss, Siegfried Schütz: Göttinger Gedenktafeln , Göttingen 2002, p. 46/47 ISBN 3-525-39161-7
• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 73.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corps lists from 1798–1904: 63 , No. 829.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Calsow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Georg Calsow in the state bibliography MV