Georg von Schuh

(Johann) Georg Schuh , since 1892 Ritter von Schuh (Bavarian staff nobility), (born November 17, 1846 in Fürth ; † July 2, 1918 in Starnberg ) was a teacher and lawyer, from 1881 to 1892 first mayor of Erlangen , from 1892 to 1913 First Mayor of Nuremberg and from 1889 to 1893 liberal (free-thinking) member of the Second Chamber of the Bavarian State Parliament .

The son of a weaver grew up in humble circumstances and was initially supposed to become a wood carver. Because he did well at school, he was trained as a primary school teacher, but was only active in this profession for a short time. After graduating from high school in Erlangen in 1868, Georg Schuh studied law in Munich and Berlin. In 1874 he received his doctorate in Giessen; In 1875 he passed the state examination in law. In 1878 he joined the Nuremberg city administration as a legally qualified magistrate. In 1888 he became 1st Mayor of Erlangen, until he was brought to Nuremberg as 1st Mayor in 1892.

He is considered the leading politician who turned the up-and-coming Bavarian provincial city of Nuremberg into a modern city. During his tenure as mayor, the old sewers were removed, streets paved, new water pipes built, as well as public baths, a hospital, an orphanage, new electricity and gas works, the slaughterhouse and cattle yard, new schoolhouses and an 'elegant' theater built. Schuh had close relationships with Prince Regent Luitpold , which enabled him to honor patrons such as the hop trader Ludwig Gerngroß, the financier of the Künstlerhaus Nürnberg and the Neptune Fountain , with titles such as honorary citizens and awards such as the Golden Citizen Medal.

From 1894 to 1913 he was also a member of the district council of Middle Franconia and served as its president from 1906 to 1907 .

In 1892 Georg Schuh was raised to the personal rank of nobility and knighthood, and in 1913 to hereditary nobility .

For all his merits, he did not succeed in establishing a useful relationship with the emerging social democracy. The quote comes from Schuh: “One might wish that the Social Democratic Party would be able to take part in the administration in order to show what it can do better.” His own party , the “ Liberals ”, brought him Fall in 1913. In the Franconian Courier of July 19, 1913, she published a notice that Schuh would resign on October 1 of the same year. He got the hint and asked for his pension . Schuh retired to Starnberg , where he died in 1918.

literature

• Martina Bauernfeind: Schuh, Johann Georg Ritter von . In: Christoph Friederich, Bertold Freiherr von Haller, Andreas Jakob (Hrsg.): Erlanger Stadtlexikon . W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-921590-89-2 ( complete edition online ).
• Martina Bauernfeind:  Schuh, Johann Georg Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 670 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg von Schuh in the catalog of the German National Library
• Georg von Schuh in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• Image by Georg von Schuh at Nordbayern.de