Gustav Fink

This article describes the national liberal politician Gustav Fink. For the SS officer of the same name, see Gustav Fink (SS member) .

"Mayor a. D. Dr. jur. Fink ”, portrait drawing by August Heitmüller , around 1929

Gustav August Friedrich Fink (born July 3, 1854 in Hanover ; † May 15, 1933 ibid) was a national liberal German politician and mayor of Hanover.

Life

After graduating from high school in Waren (Mecklenburg), Fink studied law in Würzburg and Göttingen. In 1880 he became a member of the Corps Nassovia Würzburg . He completed his studies in 1884 with a legal clerkship. In 1890 he worked first as a court assessor , then as a city counsel in Einbeck and finally as a senator for the trade department in Hanover. In 1904 he also took over the management of the city police administration. In the same year he was also elected chairman of the National Liberal Party in the province of Hanover.

Senator Gustav Fink as a portrait medallion by Karl Gundelach around 1900 on the building of the Langesche Foundation

From 1905 Fink was represented as a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and the Hanoverian state parliament. In 1918 he became a member of the DVP , but where he did not perform any functions. In 1922 Fink was elected mayor (syndic). In the period from October 1924 to August 1925 he was acting Lord Mayor . He was then made an honorary citizen of the city of Hanover and retired. In addition to numerous honorary posts, he was instrumental in the construction of the town hall, which was inaugurated in 1914. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Hermann-Strasse in the southern part of the city, where his birthplace was located, was renamed Bürgermeister-Fink-Strasse.

Gustav Fink was accepted into the Masonic Lodge Zur Ceder in 1892 ; from 1913 to 1928 he was their lodge master .

family

Married to Anna Jänecke (* 1873, † 1943). Children: Walter (* 1893, † 1904), Else (* 1894, † 1940), Hanna (* 1896), Otto (* 1906) and Werner (* 1907).

Honor grave

The honorary grave of Gustav Fink found on the city cemetery Engesohde in Hannover, Department 12 , grave number lay 228 a - b .

literature

• Klaus Mlynek : Fink, Gustav . In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 116f. online through google books
• Klaus Mlynek: Fink, Gustav . In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 180.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 208 , 405.
2. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the Hanoverian Freemasons website ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Karin van Schwartzenberg (responsible): Graves of honor and graves of important personalities at the Engesohde town cemetery , A3 leaflet with overview sketch, ed. from the City of Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, Hannover 2012.