Georg Reicke
Georg Reicke (born November 26, 1863 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † April 7, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German politician and author . He was the second mayor of Berlin.
Life
His father Rudolf Reicke was a historian and librarian in Königsberg and a recognized Kant researcher . Georg grew up with three siblings on Kalthöfische Strasse in Königsberg. His brother Johannes was a university librarian in Göttingen for four decades, his brother Emil later a historian and archivist in Nuremberg. His sister Anna became one of the first people's librarians in Berlin. Reicke studied law in Königsberg and Leipzig and was a trainee lawyer in Heiligenbeil . After the second state examination, he was employed as consistorial assessor at the Oberkirchenrat in Danzig and after three years was transferred to Berlin as consistorial councilor. As a politically liberal liberal , he fought, among other things, against the introduction of paragraph 184a of the penal code in the Goethe Bund by Hermann Sudermann . After a professional transfer due to his political commitment, he was elected mayor of Berlin in 1903.
In his further political career as Mayor of Berlin, he gave political speeches at the Schiller Celebration on the Gendarmenmarkt on May 9, 1905 and the centenary of the Stein city regulations in November 1908. Reicke signed the 93rd manifesto in September 1914 . In 1920 he ended his professional career and went into retirement.
Since his time in Danzig (May 27, 1890), Reicke had been married to the painter Sabine Reicke (née Kolscher, June 10, 1865 - September 23, 1945) and had four children. The writer, journalist and feminist Ilse Reicke was his oldest daughter.
Works (selection)
- Open air , novel
- Your own tone , novel
- Blood sacrifice - Berlin: E. Reiss, 1917
- The green chicken - Berlin: Schuster & Loeffler, 1918, 6. u. 7th edition, Roman
- Sie - Berlin: Reiss, 1920, comedy
- Reading rooms for the unemployed - Wilmersdorf: Deutscher Volkshausbund, 1921
- Wave and Wind - Berlin: Schuster & Loeffler, 1922
- Im Spinnenwinkel - Berlin: Schuster & Loeffler, 1922, 5th edition, Roman
- The iron angel - Berlin: R. Mosse, book publisher, 1923, 2nd edition, novel
- Pope Jutte - Leipzig: Verlag Kurt Scholtze Nachf., 1924
- Athene Parthenos - Leipzig: Verlag K. Scholtze Nachf., 1924
- Rolf Runge's youth - Langensalza: J. Beltz, 1925
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Reicke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Web archive: Georg Reicke died 75 years ago
- Mayor and poet - Georg Reicke in Berlin
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reicke, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1923 |
| Place of death | Berlin |