Heinrich Görtz (politician)

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HA Görtz

Heinrich Adolf Görtz (born July 3, 1848 in Lübeck ; † May 28, 1937 there ) was a lawyer and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Senate commissioners and spokesmen sat on the raised seats at the meetings

Heinrich Görtz was a son of the lawyer and director of the Lübeck lower court Christoph Gotthilf Görtz (1812–1889). After visiting the Katharineum to High School Michaelis 1868 he studied at the University of Rostock , in Heidelberg and Goettingen jurisprudence . During his studies in 1870 he became a member of the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity . From 1873 he was then a lawyer at the Lübeck Regional Court and the Hamburg Higher Regional Court . Most recently, he worked as a lawyer in a law firm that had its seat in the Bankhaus am Kohlmarkt (then Lübeck Commerz-Bank ). Since 1887 he was a member of the Lübeck citizenship.

He was a member of the board of directors of Henry Koch's shipyard .

On December 4, 1911, the citizens again appointed three men, who had repeatedly emerged as decisive personalities in public life, to run the business. Her first spokesman was the lawyer, who had been a member of her continuously for 24 years and was re-elected to the citizenry for six years in the supplementary election in November. The businessman Max Jenne was elected as his first deputy, and the goldsmith Max Buchwald as the second.

In 1918 he was awarded the Bene Merenti commemorative coin .

Contrary to his party, he did not vote for the motion of no confidence against Mayor Neumann .

From 1893 to 1898 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and the Liberal Association . Görtz was nominated as a joint candidate of the German Conservative Party , the Reich Party , the National Liberal Party and the Free-Rong Association in order to prevent the re-election of the Social Democratic MP Theodor Schwartz . In the runoff election, the all-party coalition narrowly won with 8,025 votes against 7,871 votes, which went to Schwartz.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907): Digitized , no. 652
  2. ↑ See the entry of Heinrich Görtz's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ The Lübeck Commerz-Bank had nothing to do with the Commerzbank. Due to the risk of confusion, it was later renamed Handelsbank .
  4. ^ The new board of directors of the citizenry. In: Father-city sheets . Born 1911, No. 51, edition of December 17, 1911, p. 201.
  5. ↑ Chronicle. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1925/26, No. 20, edition of June 13, 1926, p. 80.
  6. ^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1483–1486.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 152.

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personal data
SURNAME Goertz, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Görtz, Adolf Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (FVg), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1937
Place of death Lübeck