Gerhard Hachmann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mayor Hachmann (1904)

Gerhard Hachmann (born May 10, 1838 in Hamburg ; † July 5, 1904 there ) was a German lawyer. For decades he worked in the Hamburg citizenship.

Life

Hachmann's father was a doctor in Hamburg. After initially attending school in Hamburg, Hachmann entered the lower class of the Johanneum Lüneburg on September 29, 1853 . After he had passed the Matura examination on February 28, 1856, he studied law at the University of Leipzig . In 1857 he was reciprocated in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig . As an inactive , he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . On September 7, 1860 he was in Hamburg as a lawyer admitted. In the same year he became a member of the Academic Club in Hamburg . He was unsuccessful and had major problems with his passenger . So he resigned his legal mandate and became director of the Hanseatic construction company in 1866 . This went bankrupt in the same year, and Hachmann lost his fortune. In the following years he was also heavily in debt. He became a lawyer again in 1878, this time with George Heinrich Embden as a partner and he was more successful.

In 1868 Hachmann was elected to the Hamburg parliament and in 1869 was elected first secretary and later first vice-president. He held this office until 1877. In 1877 he was elected President of the Hamburg Parliament. He held this office until January 1885. In 1879, Carl August Schröder , a later mayor of Hamburg, joined von Hachmann's law firm. Since Hachmann was able to negotiate skillfully and was able to compromise , he gained high recognition. On January 12, 1885, Hachmann was elected to the Hamburg Senate 1861-1919 for Octavio Schroeder, who had been dismissed due to illness . He became a police officer in the Senate, a position he only gave up when he became Deputy Mayor on January 1, 1900. In the meantime he was also in charge of the poor and in 1893 summoned Emil Münsterberg to Hamburg to reform the Hamburg poor. Due to the resignation of Mayor Johannes Christian Eugen Lehmann due to illness , he became First Mayor on November 19, 1900 , with a term of office that lasted until December 31, 1901. In 1903 he was again deputy mayor, in 1904 he was again first mayor.

Hachmann was a hard-working, capable administrator who was good at delegating, leaving the decisions to professionals, but finding it difficult to assert his own opinion. This was also evident during the cholera epidemic of 1892 , when Hachmann, as head of the responsible authorities, did not recognize the seriousness of the situation. At that time, Johannes Versmann de facto disempowered him in order to take the necessary steps.

memory

Grave in Ohlsdorf

Gerhard Hachmann was buried on the grave of his family in the Ohlsdorf cemetery , grid square AA 10. In 1909 the Hachmannplatz between the main train station and the new Bieberhaus and in 1941 the Hachmannbrücke were named after him. On September 4, 2011, part of the square was renamed “Heidi-Kabel-Platz”.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Hachmann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslist 1960, 3/420
  2. ↑ a b Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg legal profession from 1815 to 1879 . Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 359
  3. ^ Richard J. Evans : Tod in Hamburg , Reinbek 1990, ISBN 3-498-01648-2 , p. 394
personal data
SURNAME Hachmann, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Hamburg Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1904
Place of death Hamburg