Hermann Gebhard (lawyer)

Hermann August Wilhelm Karl Gebhard (also Herman Gebhard) (born April 21, 1843 in Braunschweig , † October 6, 1906 in Lübeck ) was a German lawyer and city director of Bremerhaven.

biography

Gebhard was the son of a sergeant and studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . He first worked in the judicial service in Braunschweig and was elected to the city council there in 1877.

From 1880 he was city ​​director in the up-and-coming seaside city of Bremerhaven . He was instrumental in building up the city administration. The Kunstverein in Bremerhaven was established on his initiative in 1886 . He promoted the emergence of the Heimatbund Men vom Morgenstern, founded by Hermann Allmers in 1882 . From 1884 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship . From 1884 to 1891 he was also a member of the Reichstag (German Empire) .

Hanseatic Insurance Company for Disability and Old Age Insurance

As compensation for the loss of the Higher Appeal Court , Lübeck received the headquarters of the Hanseatic Insurance Institute for Invalidity and Old Age Insurance for employees in the three Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Bremen in 1890 due to the commitment of Senator Karl Peter Klügmann (NLP) after the last major social insurance law was passed under Bismarck and Lübeck. Gebhard was appointed head of the state insurance institute for the Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck in 1891 . His successor as City Director of Bremerhaven was Adolf Hagemann in 1890 . Gebhard was buried on the Oderberg near St. Andreasberg near the Oderberg-Gebhardsheim sanctuary, which was later temporarily named after him .

See also

• List of city leaders in Bremerhaven

literature

• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , pp. 58 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Web links

• Gebhard, Hermann August Wilhelm Karl in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Hermann August Wilhelm Karl Gebhard . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 131.
2. ↑ See collection of sources on the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 . III. Department: Development and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890–1904). Volume 6: The practice of pension insurance and the Disability Insurance Act of 1899. edited by Wolfgang Ayaß and Florian Tennstedt. Darmstadt 2014, pp. 4, 10 f., 101, 107, 151–172, 203, 207–209, 218, 220, 222, 227–234, 236–239, 291, 297, 344 f., 365, 399 f.