Hermann Roeder (politician)

Hermann Franz Leo Roeder (born October 17, 1856 in Lichtenberg , † October 9, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German manor owner and local politician in the municipality of Lichtenberg.

Life

Memorial plaque on the house at Karl-Lade-Strasse 34 in Berlin-Fennpfuhl

Albert Roeder, Hermann Roeder's father from Hegermühle , owner of a manor in Stechau , had bought the Lichtenberg estate with the colonies Friedrichsberg, Kietz and Wilhelmsberg in the Niederbarnim district from the Berlin magistrate on March 20, 1856 ; from April 1860 all related rights passed to him. After several years, Albert Roeder began to parcel out large parts of the property and then sold them as building land.

Hermann went to the military after attending school and attended the artillery and engineering school in 1880/81 . After the death of his father, he took over the Lichtenberg manor.

Act

Hermann Roeder soon began to take part in local politics : initially as a lay judge and mayor of Friedrichsberg, Wilhelmsberg and Lichtenberg. On August 18, 1892, at the suggestion of the Niederbarnim district administrator, Wilhelm von Waldow , Roeder also took over the office of mayor in Lichtenberg, which he held until 1896. First of all, he had the old municipal law adapted to the requirements of the emerging industrial society. The new municipal electoral law now determined a municipality board with six aldermen and 21 municipality representatives. At the same time, Roeder continued the subdivision of his former manor. Since the agricultural management was given up in 1890, he was able to promote larger industrial settlements and the construction of residential complexes. Under his leadership, an urgently needed drainage system and a sewage treatment plant were established and put into operation in October 1893.

The consecrations of the Catholic Mauritius Church (September 1892) and the Protestant Church of the Redeemer (October 1892) took place in his presence.

When the community council discussed the construction of a new town hall , Roeder rejected this plan. For this reason, among other things, he had to hand over the office of mayor to Oskar Ziethen in 1896 , who made great contributions to the growth of Lichtenberg until it was granted town charter.

Others

Hermann Roeder had his residence until 1908 in what was then Dorfstraße (today Möllendorffstraße ). In 1911 he moved to the Tiergarten district of Berlin , where he  lived at Viktoriastraße 14 until 1938 . Roeder spent the last two years of his life in the community of Steglitz ( Grunewaldstrasse  39).

He was buried in Kreuzberg in the Evangelical Old Luisenstadt Cemetery in Hermann Leo Roeder's hereditary burial.

Honors

Roeder's positive work for the Lichtenberg district was honored by naming streets and squares:

South of the Fennpfuhl there was a street from Landsberger Allee to Herzbergstraße, which was called Roederstraße until 1975 and was only renamed Karl-Lade-Straße with the development of the later district of Berlin-Fennpfuhl . The intersection Weißenseer Weg / Möllendorffstraße / Herzbergstraße / Roederstraße was called Roederplatz from 1896 until the construction of the new building area , the name was later retained by the residents. On June 3, 2011, the place (now in a slightly different location) got its name back at the request of the Roeder heirs.

literature

• Lichtenberg then and now , Terraingesellschaft Rittergut Lichtenberg GmbH, 1947
• Heimatwoche Lichtenberg , Berlin 1934

Web links

Commons : Hermann Franz Leo Roeder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roederstrasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
2. ↑ Roederplatz . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
3. ↑ The " Roedernstraße " in Alt-Hohenschönhausen , Hermsdorf , Mahlsdorf and Oberschöneweide are named after Siegfried von Roedern ( all Roedernstraße on berlingeschichte.de).