Hermann Bendix Todsen

Hermann Todsen 1920

Hermann Bendix Todsen (born April 2, 1864 in Grahlenstein, today part of Gelting , Schleswig-Flensburg district ; † January 8, 1946 in Malente-Gremsmühlen ) was Lord Mayor of Flensburg from 1899 to 1930 .

Life

Todsen studied law and started a career in administration. On September 14th, 1893 Todsen was elected to the city councilor of Flensburg and in 1894 he was appointed second mayor of the city of Flensburg. In 1899 he became First Mayor (see also: List of Mayors of Flensburg ).

During the Prussian period in Flensburg, building activity began to unfold in the growing city. The conveyor slopes in downtown Flensburg were also built on. Well-heeled citizens settled on the western height . Todsen also had a villa built on the west side of the city, the so-called Villa Todsen .

At the end of the 19th century, the Imperial Navy settled in Mürwik . Todsen recognized the growth potential of the east bank of the fjord . So he included it in the city's strategic planning. In fact, the neighboring small communities in the east grew as a result of the settlement. For reasons of reputation alone, the desire arose to integrate the east bank and especially Mürwik into their city limits. Finally, in 1910, the two communities of Fruerlund and Twedter Holz were incorporated into Flensburg, and Mürwik, where the so-called “ Red Castle ” was built in 1910 for the training of officers in the Navy , has since developed into the largest and very important district of Flensburg. With the connection to the urban infrastructure, Mürwik was able to continue growing rapidly. During his term of office, not only did he complete the urban infrastructure (such as the power station, slaughterhouse, professional fire brigade , electric tram in Flensburg ), the above-mentioned establishment of the Mürwik naval school and the construction of various buildings in the style of homeland security architecture , which still strongly shape Flensburg's appearance today, but also the challenges of changing sea trade flows with the opening of the Kiel Canal as well as the adversities of the First World War and the separation of North Schleswig in 1920 , through which Flensburg became a border town.

Todsen exercised his office beyond the German Empire until 1930. From 1899 until its dissolution in 1918, he was the representative of his city in the Prussian manor house . Later he represented Flensburg in the Prussian State Council .

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  During Todsen's tenure, the Mürwik Naval School , the Red Castle, was built. Mürwik with the adjacent parts of the east bank were then incorporated.

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  The Flensburg calibration office , an important testimony to the Prussian era , was also established during his term of office.

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  The mayor made a contribution to the visually and structurally successful expansion of the east bank. The first name of the Goethe School , which was gradually developed from 1914 onwards according to plans by Paul Ziegler , was to be against the will of the Nazis Todsen School .

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  The Dr. Todsen Strasse with Paul Ziegler's distinctive corner house.

Honors

With the resignation of his city office Todsen was made an honorary citizen of the city . The Dr.-Todsen-Straße in Flensburg ( Lage ) has been named after him since 1961. In the early 1930s, the then college of today's Goethe School in Flensburg decided that the school should be named Todsen School , but the National Socialist magistrate under Wilhelm Sievers enforced the name “Adolf Hitler School” in 1933/34.

See also

• List of the city leaders of Flensburg

source

• Hermann Bendix Todsen in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 150 years of Flensburger Tageblatt: Flensburg under the Pickelhaube , from January 29, 2015; accessed on October 7, 2018
2. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Flensburger Architektur: The houses of the well-heeled , from: August 12, 2015; accessed on: October 7, 2018
3. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Twedt: The mother of Mürwik , from: April 1, 2010; Retrieved on: February 27, 2016
4. ↑ Gerhard Kraack among others: Flensburg in the past and present. Flensburg 1972, DNB 730485641 , p. 406.
5. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Twedt: The mother of Mürwik , from: April 1, 2010; Retrieved on: February 27, 2016

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