Hermann Geib

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Hermann Geib

Hermann Geib (born June 22, 1872 in Bergzabern ; † September 23, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer , politician , mayor of Regensburg (1903-1910), social politician and publicist (1914-1932).

education

Geib was born as the son of the later attorney general at the Bavarian Administrative Court Adalbert von Geib and his wife Rosalie, née Tenner. In 1891 he graduated from the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich . studied law and economics at the universities of Munich and Erlangen and was a member of the local student associations AGV Munich and AMV Fridericiana Erlangen . In 1896 he passed the legal traineeship , in 1899 he went bankrupt . He was then a legal assistant in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior , from 1902 assessor and assistant in the State Ministry of the Interior for Churches and School Matters. In 1903 he applied for the advertised position of the legally qualified mayor of Regensburg.

Lord Mayor of Regensburg

Geib was elected the first mayor of the city of Regensburg on October 24, 1903 as the successor to Oskar von Stobäus with 30 of 36 votes in the community council (six votes were due to his later successor Alfons Auer ). On September 12, 1906, he was elected mayor for life with all 35 votes cast; on December 21, 1907, Prince Regent Luitpold awarded him the then new title of Lord Mayor . However, Geib went into unpaid retirement on March 31, 1910 for health reasons.

Unlike his predecessor Stobäus , the liberal Protestant Geib kept his distance from the national liberal majority in the community college and emphasized his non-partisan position: He ended the practice of making the town hall the election campaign center of the liberals, which was evident in the Reichstag and state parliament elections of 1907; He also increased the levy rates (the direct municipal tax), which particularly affected the upscale, liberal, educated and economic bourgeoisie, who dominated the municipal college. Conflicts between the mayor and the college were the result and can be assumed to be the reason for Geib's sudden resignation from office (he refused a farewell visit from deputies of the community bodies). Despite such quarrels, the Geib era was characterized by innovations: of central importance was the construction of a new transshipment and winter port as well as a petroleum port, initiated by his predecessor Stobäus , which was partially financed from the city budget by Geib. Construction began in 1906 and was completed in 1910, resulting in the settlement and expansion of industrial companies. In addition, the term of office was characterized by the creation of municipal facilities in the field of health and social services: the introduction of household waste collection (1907), the establishment of a municipal advice center for breastfeeding mothers (1906) and a municipal nursing home, the takeover of the welfare center for lung patients City (1908), the establishment of a city assistant for poor and child welfare (1908) and the opening of a city housing office (1908).

The preparation of the Upper Palatinate District Exhibition for Industry, Commerce and Agriculture, which was planned for 1910 and which was only opened in September 1910 by his successor as Mayor AlfonsAuer 6 months after Geib's resignation, was also of great importance for the city . For the district exhibition, it was necessary to completely redesign the area north-west of the Lazarus cemeteries, in front of the Jacob Gate, at Unter den Linden , which had previously been used by the rifle societies as a shooting range . The entire area was to be redesigned with trees and watercourses as a city ​​park and provided with exhibition halls, supply buildings and an art hall for the exhibition . In addition to this elaborate work, the pleasant effects of which the residents of Regensburg can still experience today, the extensive restoration of the old town hall between 1904 and 1910 also required a lot of attention.

State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Labor

Living in Berlin from 1914, Geib was involved in the DRK and volunteered to head the department for war disabled and bathing welfare. From 1915 he took over the management of the Reich Committee for the Welfare of War Disabled People, which was supposed to organize the rehabilitation of war invalids. This activity led to the establishment of the Reich Labor Office in October 1918, which Geib led with the rank of Ministerial Director. After the formation of the Reich Labor Ministry , Geib rose to become State Secretary , where he a. a. was responsible for questions of labor law, social security and labor administration, which were of particular importance in the period after the First World War . Until 1932 he was the editor of the Yearbook for Social Policy and published on legal, economic, socio-political and scientific topics. After 13 years in office, he retired in the summer of 1932, with Reich President Hindenburg writing in the farewell decree that his "name (will) remain permanently and honorably linked to the history of German social policy". His services were recognized by an honorary doctorate from the universities of Heidelberg (1920) and Berlin (1932) and honorary citizenship of the city of Regensburg.

tomb

After leaving office, Hermann Geib worked on several supervisory boards in the ceramics industry for a few years. Hermann Geib died on September 23, 1939 in Berlin, where he and his wife Helene (since 1926), née Dressel, lived. He was buried in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf , where the grave has been maintained since 2007 at the expense of the city of Regensburg.

Honors

  • For his contributions to socio-medical field, he was from the University of Heidelberg in 1920 to Dr. med. hc, later he received the title of Dr. phil. hc
  • The city of Regensburg honored Geib in 1929 by being made an honorary citizen . In memory of Geib, a street was named after him in the southeastern part of Galgenberg.

literature

  • Dieter Albrecht : Regensburg is changing. Studies on the history of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries (= studies and sources on the history of Regensburg 2). Mittelbayerische Druckerei- und Verlags-Gesellschaft, Regensburg 1984 (short biography Geibs, pp. 169–174).
  • Dr. Hermann Geib - obituary , association newspaper of the AGV Munich, No. 1/1940
  • Guido Hable, 1970 History of Regensburg - An overview according to subject areas , Mittelbayerische Druckerei- u. Verlagsges., Regensburg 1970.
  • Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social politicians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism 1919 to 1945. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7376-0474-1 , p. 56 f. ( Online , PDF; 3.9 MB).
  • Peter Reinicke : Geib, Hermann , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 197f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Karl Eduard Haas, The Academic-Musical Association Fridericana in the Sondershäuser Association, formerly the Erlangen student choir . Erlangen 1982, self-published
  2. ^ Astrid Wild: Stone pit, hospital, burial place and place of entertainment. The city park area of ​​Regensburg . In: Peter Germann Bauer / Helmut Groschwitz (eds.): Catalog for the 2010 exhibition Tradition and Awakening 1910 . Museums of the City of Regensburg 2010, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-935052-83-2 , p. 53-71 .
  3. ↑ Dieter Albrecht: Regensburg im Wandel, studies on the history of the city in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Museums and Archives of the City of Regensburg (Hrsg.): Studies and sources on the history of Regensburg . tape 2 . Mittelbayerische Druckerei und Verlags-Gesellschaft mbH, Regensburg 1984, ISBN 3-921114-11-X , p. 169-173 .
personal data
SURNAME Geib, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergzabern
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1939
Place of death Berlin