Heinrich von Wagner
Wilhelm Heinrich Wagner , von Wagner since 1905 (born September 22, 1857 in Leonberg ; † May 14, 1925 in Bad Schachen ), was Lord Mayor of Ulm from 1891 to 1919 .
life and work
As the son of a trimmers (braid maker) and Leonberger municipal councilor, Heinrich Wagner studied political science in Tübingen from 1879 to 1881 . After working as a bailiff in Blaubeuren , Crailsheim and Münsingen , Wagner came to Blaubeuren as a police officer from 1885 to 1887 and moved to Ulm as a police officer in 1887. After the resignation of the mayor of Ulm, Karl von Heim , he was elected as his successor in 1891, initially as a town school, and from 1892 on, Wagner officially received the title of mayor.
Heinrich Wagner held the office of mayor of Ulm for 28 years, until he resigned in 1919 for health reasons. In 1891 he founded the housing association to support financially weak people with housing construction. Wagner dismantled the ramparts of the federal fortress of Ulm , whose fortress ring around the city hampered the structural expansion of Ulm. In the resulting western city, a school and a street were named after him. The incorporation of Söflingen (1905) and u. a. the construction of a power station and the introduction of the Ulm tram . From 1920 until his death, Heinrich Wagner was the head of the newly founded Württemberg Savings Banks and Giro Association .
He was a member of the student union Landsmannschaft Ulmia Tübingen .
Honors
- 1893 Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Frederick
- 1905 Cross of Honor of the Württemberg Crown Order , with which the nobility was associated.
- Silver Karl Olga medal
- Royal Prussian Crown Order , IV class
- Cross of Honor 3rd Class of the Princely Hohenzollern House Order
- Knight's Cross 4th Class of the Royal Bavarian Order of Merit of St. Michael
- 1916 honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen
- 1919 Honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock
- 1919 On the occasion of his departure, Heinrich von Wagner received the honorary citizenship of Ulm
literature
- Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 448 f .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1907, page 39
Christoph Leonhard Wolbach (1819–1844) | Julius Schuster (1845–1863) | Karl (von) Heim (1863–1890) | Heinrich (von) Wagner (1891–1919) | Emil Schwamberger (1919–1933) | Friedrich Foerster (1933–1945) | Hermann Frank (April – May 1945) | Karl Eychmüller (May – June 1945) | Robert Scholl (1945–1948) | Theodor Pfizer (1948–1972) | Hans Lorenser (1972–1984) | Ernst Ludwig (1984–1992) | Ivo Gönner (1992–2016) | Gunter Czisch (since 2016)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Heinrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wagner, Wilhelm Heinrich von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lord Mayor of Ulm (1891-1919) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leonberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1925 |
| Place of death | Bad Schachen |