Heinrich Sturm

Heinrich Sturm (portrait of Georg Ludwig Meyn )

Heinrich Sturm (born April 2, 1860 in Köstritz , † March 4, 1917 in Chemnitz ) was a Saxon administrative lawyer and local politician . From 1908 to 1917 he was Lord Mayor of Chemnitz.

Life

Heinrich Sturm was the son of the pastor and poet Julius Sturm . In his childhood he attended high schools in Leipzig , Vevey and Dresden and in 1879 passed his final exams at the Vitzthum high school in Dresden . He then studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Universität Leipzig and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In 1880 he became a member of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig .

In 1887 he became mayor of Schleiz . From 1889 to 1892 he belonged to the Reuss younger line of the Landtag . The Princely House of Reuss appointed him in 1893 as a lecturing councilor in the Gera Ministry and in 1896 appointed him district administrator of the Princely District Office in Gera .

In February 1902, Heinrich Sturm came to Chemnitz, where he joined the city council as 1st salaried city councilor and 2nd deputy mayor. After only two years of activity, he became mayor and first deputy mayor. In 1908, elected almost unanimously as head of the city, he represented Chemnitz in the first chamber of the state parliament . He was also chairman of the Saxon Community Day.

Chemnitz's rapid development into the most important industrial city in Saxony began before the turn of the century and continued under Sturm's leadership. During his tenure, the Chemnitz Opera House and the New Town Hall (Chemnitz) were built . Other important buildings that fell during his tenure were the construction and expansion of the Neunzehnhainer dams , the electrical works at the castle pond, the Altchemnitz gas station and the Heinersdorf sewage treatment plant. These important supply facilities became necessary as the number of residents increased rapidly and in 1910 already exceeded the 300,000 mark. During these years, the transport network was expanded, the city park expanded, the Küchwaldschänke opened and the Küchwaldkrankenhaus, the Reformrealgymnasium on Schloßstraße and the higher girls' education institution built on the Kaßberg .

Sturm died in office at the age of 57 and was buried in the Chemnitz municipal cemetery . He is the grandfather of Wolf Sturm .

The Heinrich-Sturm-Weg, laid out in 1917 in the city park, commemorates the former mayor.

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  Sturm as a Lusatian

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  Storm's grave

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 149 , 599

literature

• From André to Zöllner. 125 biographies on the history of Chemnitz (= from the Chemnitz City Archives. Issue 2). Reintzsch, Chemnitz 1998, ISBN 3-930846-13-6 .