Otto Beutler

Otto Beutler 1910

Grave of Otto Beutler in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden.

Gustav Otto Beutler (born August 6, 1853 in Waldkirchen (Vogtland) , † August 1, 1926 in Dresden ) was a lawyer and Lord Mayor of Dresden .

Life

After studying law in Leipzig (1873 to 1876), during which he was a member of the Afrania Leipzig Landsmannschaft , Beutler worked as a lawyer for several years. He later became mayor of the Saxon cities of Meerane and Freiberg . From 1888 to 1893 Beutler was a secret and lecturing council in the Saxon Ministry of Finance.

After Beutler had held the office of Second Mayor of Dresden from 1894, he was elected Lord Mayor in 1895 , to which office membership in the 1st Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament was tied. Otto Beutler made a significant contribution to the expansion of Dresden into a major city (including incorporation of 17 suburbs). Furthermore, he brought about the supply of Dresden with electricity, the expansion of the traffic routes and the construction of the new town hall .

Politically, Beutler belonged to the German Conservative Party and was temporarily a member of its so-called 12 Committee (party leadership). He was also honorary chairman of the Reichsdeutscher Mittelstandsverband .

Beutler left office in 1915 and was made an honorary citizen of Dresden shortly afterwards . In addition, he received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden “in recognition of his great services to the industrial development of the city of Dresden and with regard to the support that the Technical University received at all times” . Gustav Otto Beutler died in 1926. In order to honor his services to the city, the Beutlerpark , previously Schanzenpark, in the Dresden Südvorstadt was named after him. Beutlerstraße is named after him in the city of Freiberg .

His grave is in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden .

Web links

• Barbara Hillen: Beutler, Gustav Otto . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• Literature by and about Otto Beutler in the Saxon Bibliography
• Otto Beutler in the Stadtwiki Dresden

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Mechow, Renowned CCER, Historia Academica, Volume 8/9, page 20
2. ↑ Dirk Stegmann : From Neo-Conservatism to Postage-Fascism: Conservative Party, Associations and Associations 1893-1920. In: ders./ Bernd-Jürgen Wendt / Peter-Christian Witt (eds.): * German conservatism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Festschrift for Fritz Fischer, Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1983, ISBN 3878313691 , p. 208.
3. ^ Directory of honorary doctoral candidates at the TH / TU Dresden

predecessor	Office	successor
Paul Alfred Stubel	Lord Mayor of Dresden 1895–1915	Bernhard Blüher