Heinrich Klug

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Heinrich Klug

Heinrich Klug (born May 30, 1837 in Schlutup ; † May 6, 1912 in Lübeck ) was Senator and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck .

Life

origin

Heinrich was born the son of Marcus Jochim Carl Klugs , pastor of St. Andreas Church in Schlutup. In 1840 he became the main pastor of the St. Jakobi Church in Lübeck . His father was also a citizen and historian.

career

After successfully passing his legal exam, Klug settled down as a lawyer in the Hanseatic city in 1861 and soon became one of the city's most sought-after lawyers. The lawyer , who took care of all public affairs, turned out to be a quick-witted debater in their representation.

From 1867 Klug was a member of the citizenry . Valuable services were conducted there by him for the Lübeck community . As a result, he was elected to the citizens' committee three times . In the years 1875 and 1876 he held the office of spokesman there. After that, until his election to the Senate, he was the spokesman in the township.

On June 9, 1879, Klug elected the trust of his fellow citizens in the Senate. This was the highest honorary position he could give . In his long official activity he made a contribution to the poor, in the area of ​​the city and country office , the railway sector in connection with the relocation of the station of the Lübeck-Büchener railway and the construction sector including its legislation . As chairman of civil engineering, he also became chairman of the sewer authority that emerged from it. With the construction of the canal in particular, the name Klug remains inseparably linked to that of the canal builder Rehder .

In the term of office of 1899/1900 , Klug held the position of head of state for the first time . The then so-called " Kiel Week " ended in 1899 with the regatta days in Travemünde, which Hermann Fehling once set up . On July 1, Paul Metternich announced that the emperor would be coming to the Hanseatic city on the same day on the water with Admiral Koester's steamer “Snow White” and that his visit would be regarded as a private one. The Lübeck Yacht Club was founded in August 1898 and Klug was made its honorary chairman. In this capacity he received the emperor in their clothing together with Fehling, the president of the chamber and chairman of the LYC, and Friedrich Ewers , member of the board, at the bridge on Braunstraße . Sitting next to the Kaiser in the carriage , they drove up Braunstraße and ate in the Hanseatic Hall of the Ratskeller in the Hansa Hall. There the mayor sat on the right of the emperor and on the left of the Hereditary Grand Duke v. Oldenburg .

The nymph

On November 20, 1899, the mayor, accompanied by Senator Emil Wolpmann , traveled to the Germania shipyard in Kiel . The following day, christened it a cruiser in the name of nymph . Following this, he telegraphed the Emperor , who was staying at Windsor Castle in London , of this fact. He replied delighted about this event on his mother's birthday . The painting “View of Lübeck” should later be located in the mess of the cruiser. Elisabeth Reuter , a Lübeck artist, had painted this on behalf of the Lübeck Senate.

When Großjährigkeitsfeier the Crown Prince in May 1900 Kluge took the Hanseatic city.

Holsten Gate with Bismarck Monument

In the 1903/1904 term of office , Kluge was again the Lübeck head of state.

On Sedan Day in 1903, the statue of the first Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , made by Emil Hundrieser , was unveiled on today's Holstentorplatz . Standing on its pedestal , Klug thanked the artist and those involved. Unveiling the monument, he accepted it on behalf of the Senate and the citizens and was the first to decorate it with a laurel wreath .

At the Stettiner Maschinenbau Actien-Gesellschaft "Vulkan" in Stettin - Bredow , the launch of the cruiser intended to replace the warship " Meteor " took place on Saturday, March 26, 1904 . At the invitation of the emperor, the baptism was carried out by Klug and the ship was given the name " Lübeck ".

Hotel Kaiserhof

Since April 1, 1897, Bismarck's birthday, Lübeck had its own regiment with the 3rd Hanseatic Infantry Regiment No. 162 . This took part in the imperial maneuver for the first time in autumn 1904 . In Altona , where the headquarters of the General Command of the IX. Army Corps , the parade board took place on September 5th after the imperial parade in Lurup in the ballroom of the imperial court . The highlight of this event, in which the mayors of the three Hanseatic cities represented in the Corps ( Carl Georg Barkhausen , Johann Georg Mönckeberg and Heinrich Klug) experienced by the emperor that the garsonierten in their cities regiments henceforth the names Regiment Bremen , regiment Hamburg and Regiment Lübeck led .

Taking into account his unstoppable physical decline, he resigned his offices on December 1, 1907 and retired publicly . The election of his successor, Senate and Parliament elected on 16 December 1907 plenary session of the Chamber of Commerce General Counsel Kalkbrenner in the Senate , should, as the person elected is not previously been a member of citizenship only 32-year-old neither lawyer, a novelty form.

In addition, he was on the board of the cathedral parish as in model train 17, and he was also a board member of the Holy Spirit Hospital and the Westerauer Foundation.

“His life was labor and work, so it was delicious.” As a convinced freriaurer - because the Lodge Zur Weltkugel also mourned on the bier of its honorary master - Klug had not only had this insight in mind, but also always confirmed it.

Elbe-Trave Canal

Laying of the foundation stone for the Elbe-Trave Canal
The Lubeca in front of the Kaisertor at the opening of the canal in 1900

The main contribution to his hometown was Klug's tireless, imperturbable advocacy for the construction of an Elbe-Trave canal . In this capacity he was on May 31, 1895 for the laying of the foundation stone of the canal in Lübeck. After the blows with the silver hammer by Senator Wolpmann, Senator Klug, followed by the chief building director, Peter Rehder , struck the granite stone and took over his work with the words: “With the big and difficult building, favor and luck remain loyal to me. God govern that. ”From 1896 he was chairman of the sewer construction authority. This life's work was crowned with success and he himself, as mayor, was able to inaugurate the new lifeline of the old Hanseatic city . With this he drove together with the Kaiser and other dignitaries of the city from the Kaisertor in the Lübeck ramparts on the canal to the new Burgtorbrücke in the Senate barge Lubeca . The damming of the Wakenitz was necessary for this section of the route and the penetration of the peninsula in front of the castle gate brought with it the greatest topographical faults, which could only be more or less regulated in terms of urban planning after a long time.

Parcham's Foundation

"His" Padelugge was particularly important to Klug. Both the board of directors as well as the residents of the estate were grateful for the sustainable support that the foundation had received through his far-sighted view.

Society for the promotion of charitable activities

Klug was a member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities for more than 50 years . Twice, from 1880 to 1883 and from 1886 to 1889, he held the busy office of director. The repetition of his election immediately after serving as deputy director from 1883 to 1886 was unusual, but signaled the greatest confidence in his abilities. It was important to find a man for the 100th anniversary of the company who was able to prepare the worthy expansion of the festival with selfless dedication and organizational skill and who was able to lead it himself. the Parchamsche Foundation ,

The Trade Museum, the Geographical Society , the Association of Friends of Music and the “third school for small children” were formed or incorporated into society during his tenure under his lively support.

Museum at the cathedral

The idea of ​​building a new museum building on the site of the old hospital at the cathedral experienced a very energetic promotion up to the final realization by Klug . He became a member of the museum administration committee and board member of the trade museum.

His activity as a member of the Lübeck History Association , the Statistics Association, the Trade Committee and especially the Gymnastics Institute was described as praising him. The continued existence of the commercial advanced training school, which was endangered during his directorate, could be averted by his reorganization of the school. The expansion of the savings and loan fund through the Pfennigsparkasse was thanks to him.

Together with Mayor Schön , he made every effort to find a worthy home for the company until they finally found it at Königstrasse 5 .

Awards

Commemorative coin of the non-profit
Medal of honor of the Senate
Medal of honor of the Chamber of Commerce

What the order was in a monarchical state has been a simple commemorative coin in a state like that of Lübeck, which was based on self-administration. Three such medals are awarded in Lübeck. The first was awarded by the Senate, the second by the Chamber of Commerce and the third by the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities .

Out of consideration for his services in general and for the foundation of the museum in particular, charitable donors were awarded their commemorative medal as the highest distinction on the day the museum opened .

On May 29, 1907, on the occasion of the Senator's 70th birthday, the stretch of the canal harbor from the confluence of the Elbe-Trave Canal into the Trave to the Hüxtertorbrücke was given the name "Klughafen", which still exists today.

When the mayor, on Thursday, June 9, 1907, was the 25th return on the day on which he was elected by the confidence of his fellow citizens in the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City, the emperor sent him a telegram of congratulations .

In addition, on that day he received the two that had not yet been awarded to him, the highest honors in the city. He was awarded the golden honorary commemorative coin Bene Merenti by the Senate and by the Chamber of Commerce , as board member of the Lübeck merchants' association , their gold medal of honor "for services to trade and transport" awarded.

Trivia

After the death of Senator Mann on October 13, 1891, Consul Fehling and the wine merchant Tesdorf were appointed guardians of five children who had left behind.

Thomas Mann was 16 years old at the time. In his novel Die Buddenbrooks , for which he was later to receive the Nobel Prize , we meet various Lübeckers. We met Heinrich Klug as bank director Gieseke .

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Klug  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Wilhelm Fehling. In: Lübeckische Blätter , 49th year, number 50, edition of December 15, 1907, p. 709.
  2. ^ Visit of the emperor in Lübeck. In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Born 1899, No. 28, edition of July 9, 1899, pp. 341–343.
  3. ↑ "The baptism of the cruiser nymph at the Germania shipyard in Kiel." In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1899, no. 45, issue of November 26, 1899.
  4. ^ "An artist from Lübeck." In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1903, no. 20, edition of May 17, 1903.
  5. ↑ The Bismarck statue is now on Lindenplatz .
  6. ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter , volume 45, number 36, edition of September 6, 1903, p. 462.
  7. ^ "The launch of the cruiser" Lübeck "." In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1904, No. 14, edition of April 3, 1904, p. 56.
  8. ↑ The prevailing custom that all scholarly members of the Senate were to be taken from that of the jurists had been broken for the first time. According to the Lübeck constitution, the Senate had eight scholarly members. Only six of them had to be lawyers, but by then they were all lawyers.
  9. ^ The laying of the foundation stone for the Elbe-Trave Canal. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 37, number 44, edition of June 2, 1895, pp. 297–301.
  10. ↑ Senator Dr. Smart †. In: Father-city sheets. Born 1912, No. 19, edition of May 12, 1912, p. 73.
  11. ↑ Weekly chronicle from Lübeck and the surrounding area. In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Born in 1907, No. 23, June 2, 1907 edition, p. 92.
  12. ^ The coin of honor of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce. In: Father City Leaves , No. 3, January 15, 1905 edition, pp. 11-12.
  13. ↑ Se. Magnificence Mayor Dr. Klug , In: Vaterstadtische Blätter. Born in 1904, No. 24, June 6, 1904 edition, p. 93.
  14. ^ Buddenbrooks - List of real names
personal data
SURNAME Clever, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1912
Place of death Lübeck