Heinrich Albrecht (politician, 1856)

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Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Albrecht (born March 16, 1856 in Rastede ; † November 9, 1931 in Berlin ) was a German social politician and housing reformer. He is considered to be one of the pioneers in housing associations .

Life

Heinrich Albrecht was born as the son of the pharmacist Adolf Friedrich Bernhard Albrecht and his wife Dorothea Philippine, geb. Schmidt, born in Rastede in 1856. After attending grammar school in Verden, he studied engineering at the Technical University of Hanover between 1875 and 1880 and later from 1884 to 1888 political science at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . From 1892 he was a research assistant at the Central Office for People's Welfare . From 1906 to 1910 he was a part-time lecturer at the Handels-Hochschule Berlin. In 1907 he became managing director of the Central Office for People's Welfare. As such, he was the publisher of the Central Office's magazine Concordia until 1920 . In addition, between 1898 and 1927 he published the Technical Community Gazette, which he co-founded , which was devoted to technical and hygienic topics. In 1902 he also founded the magazine for housing reform , which he headed for about 25 years. In 1897 he merged the building cooperatives in the association of building cooperatives standing on the basis of common ownership . From this later the Association of German Building Cooperatives and the Main Association of German Building Cooperatives emerged.

In his work, Heinrich Albrecht was primarily concerned with promoting industrial hygiene , factory welfare and private and public welfare . The problems of housing reform, housing welfare and housing supervision were also among his fields of work.

Heinrich Albrecht died in Berlin on November 9, 1931.

Honors

In 1993 a street in Cottbus was named after Heinrich Albrecht. This was previously dedicated to the communist and Ströbitz mayor Michael Bey . The renaming was applied for by the non-profit housing cooperative (today's eG Wohnen 1902 ), which has its headquarters in this street.

Fonts

  • Report on the German Hygiene Exhibition , 3 volumes, 1886
  • The Economic Significance of Small Power Machines , 1889
  • Industrial hygiene and workers' welfare efforts , 1890
  • The Housing Difficulty in Big Cities and the Means to Help Them , 1891
  • Model sites of personal welfare by employers for business people , 1892
  • Handbook of practical industrial hygiene with special consideration of accident prevention , 1896
  • The workers 'house: collected plans of workers' houses and advice on how to design them based on practical experience , 1896
  • Housing statistics and housing inquiry , 1896
  • Construction of small apartments by employers, foundations, non-profit building companies and under the control of the municipalities , 1901
  • The Housing Question in France, Sweden, Denmark , 1901
  • The development of building cooperatives in Germany , 1902
  • Handbook of Social Welfare , 1902
  • Urban housing and settlement , 1915

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Schulz: After the liberation, mayor in Ströbitz. In: Cottbuser Herzblatt. April 2007, p. 15 , archived from the original on August 14, 2017 ; accessed on April 16, 2019 .
  2. ^ Heinrich-Albrecht-Strasse. In: Meine eG Wohnen 1/14. 2014, p. 5 , accessed April 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albrecht, Heinrich Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social politician and housing reformer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastede
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1931
Place of death Berlin