Georg Voigt (politician)

Georg Voigt (1866–1927)

Georg Philipp Wilhelm Voigt [ Fokt ] (* 16th September 1866 in Klein-Schellmühl in Gdansk ; † 13. April 1927 in Marburg ) was a German politician and mayor in Rixdorf , Barmen , Frankfurt and Marburg.

Life

Voigt was the son of a businessman and hotel owner. He studied law in Breslau , Berlin and Königsberg from 1886 to 1890 . After the assessor examination, he worked as a salaried city councilor for the magistrate of Danzig before he was first mayor of Rixdorf near Berlin in 1899 and then mayor of Barmen from 1906 to 1912 . In the period from 1908 to 1912 he was a member of the provincial parliament of the Prussian Rhine Province for Barmen. In 1912 he came to Frankfurt as the successor to Franz Adickes in 1912. From 1907 he was a member of the Prussian manor house . He belonged to the left wing of the National Liberal Party , from 1918 the DDP .

During his term of office in Frankfurt from 1912 to 1924, the Frankfurt University opened . During the First World War , the critical supply situation for the population was in the foreground, as the Prussian Frankfurt was largely cut off from its traditional hinterland in Hesse and Bavaria due to the centralized war economy . In November 1918 the revolutionary unrest also reached Frankfurt. It took some time for civil order to be restored.

During the inflation of 1923, the university also lost its foundation assets. It is thanks to Voigt's work that the city assumed the financial obligations and the university was retained.

As an administrative specialist, Voigt successfully brought the municipality, its property and the municipal companies through the war and post-war years. However, he lacked convincing concepts for the future development of the city and the determination to reform the administration in view of the new challenges posed by the war and the social tensions arising from inflation. Therefore, towards the end of his twelve-year term of office in the city council, the reservations about his re-election grew. On October 2, 1924, Voigt was defeated by his economic department and party colleague Ludwig Landmann in a ballot with 25 to 36 votes . Only the city officials had advocated re-election in advance.

After his defeat, he was elected Lord Mayor of Marburg on November 22nd, 1924. His tenure there lasted from 1925 until his death. He was buried in field 015 - no. 12-13 on the state-owned cemetery in Zehlendorf , Onkel-Tom-Straße 30 in Berlin.

Honors

Because of his services to the preservation of the university, the University of Frankfurt awarded him an honorary doctorate on March 24, 1924 . On December 6, 1924, he received the silver plaque of honor from the city of Frankfurt am Main . Voigt was also bearer of the Red Eagle Order and the Order of the Crown . Today streets on the Bockenheim university campus in Frankfurt and in Marburg remind of him.

literature

• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 .

Web links

• Georg Voigt (politician) in the online version of the files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic
• Voigt, Georg Philipp Wilhelm. Hessian biography. (As of July 28, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.afz.lvr.de/media/archive_im_rheinland/archiv_des_lvr/Abenkenliste.pdf