Georg Lenzberg

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Georg Lenzberg (born May 10, 1856 in Barntrup ; † March 2, 1922 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer , judicial councilor , local and state politician and promoter of the arts .

Life

Georg Lenzberg was born under the Kingdom of Hanover . After studying law, after the First World War in the young Weimar Republic , he ran a law firm together with Paul Siegel and Georg Lindemann .

As a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP), Lenzberg was elected district chairman on February 23, 1919 , and in the same year, on March 5, he was elected spokesman for the council of citizens . Lenzberg, who on September 1, 1919 , was appointed to the provincial parliament of the province of Hanover for Friedrich Barlsen and his party , had to resign from this office after just two years in 1920 due to illness.

Georg Lenzberg was a patron of the arts: In his house on Kantplatz in the Hanoverian district of Kleefeld, “well-known artists” such as the conductor Max Reger or the painter Georg Tronnier frequented . Lenzberg was also friends with the sculptor Georg Herting .

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Klaus Mlynek: LENZBERG, Georg (see literature)
  2. Klaus Mlynek: Siegel, Paul. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 565
  3. Compare the information from the German National Library
  4. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Lenzbergweg. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 158