Gustav Hirschfeld (politician)

Gustav Hirschfeld (born April 24, 1857 in Kassel , † January 29, 1938 in Coburg ) was a German lawyer and politician. He was the Lord Mayor of Coburg from 1897 to 1924.

Life

Hirschfeld studied law and worked as a court assessor in Fritzlar . On January 4, 1887, he was introduced to his new office as Coburg City Treasurer. By decree of April 19, 1894, he was elected second mayor and on November 12, 1897 by the city council as first mayor. The introduction to the office was on December 1, 1897. In 1905 he received the title of Lord Mayor. Between 1911 and 1918 he was a member of the Coburg state parliament as a representative of the city of Coburg . His mayor's office ended on April 23, 1924. On the same day, he was given honorary citizenship. In addition, a street was named after him.

During his tenure, Max Böhme was appointed city architect in 1903 , who, among other things, carried out the renovation of the Coburg town hall and the new buildings of the crematorium and the urn hall during the expansion of the cemetery on Glockenberg , the Ernst-Alexandrinen-Volksbad and the Heilig-Kreuz-Schule supervised. In addition, the power station was built and the sewer system was built.

On April 23, 1924, Julius Streicher from Nuremberg, editor of the anti-Semitic weekly Der Stürmer , gave a speech in the Coburg Hofbräu restaurants on the occasion of a celebration of Adolf Hitler's 35th birthday . In it he assumed that Hirschfeld was of Jewish origin because of his supposedly Jewish-sounding surname. Hirschfeld then sued Streicher. The Coburg regional court acquitted Streicher, although the allegation was a lie.

Works

Prince Metternich and Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Coburg 1929.
The establishment of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1826. Coburg 1927.

Individual evidence

↑ Coburg.de: Famous Coburgs - Other important personalities related to Coburg
↑ ^a ^b Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Against forgetting . Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006732-9 , p. 149.
^ Coburger Zeitung, Issue No. 3 of January 5, 1887
↑ ^a ^b ^c Ernst Eckerlein: Gustav Hirschfeld worked for Coburg for almost four decades. In: Coburger Heimat , Coburg 1996, ISBN 3-923434-20-0 , pp. 38-40.
^ Coburger Zeitung, issue No. 282 of December 2, 1897
^ Digital city memory of the city of Coburg: April 1924: Coburg's 1st mayor a Jew? The "Streicher-Hirschfeld Affair"

personal data
SURNAME	Hirschfeld, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	kassel
DATE OF DEATH	January 29, 1938
Place of death	Coburg

[1] Coburg.de: Famous Coburgs - Other important personalities related to Coburg

[Sandner-2] Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Against forgetting . Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006732-9 , p. 149.

[3] Coburger Zeitung, Issue No. 3 of January 5, 1887

[Eckerlein-4] Ernst Eckerlein: Gustav Hirschfeld worked for Coburg for almost four decades. In: Coburger Heimat , Coburg 1996, ISBN 3-923434-20-0 , pp. 38-40.

[5] Coburger Zeitung, issue No. 282 of December 2, 1897

[6] Digital city memory of the city of Coburg: April 1924: Coburg's 1st mayor a Jew? The "Streicher-Hirschfeld Affair"