Karl Brinkmann

This article deals with Karl Brinkmann, the second mayor of Königsberg. For the sociologist and economist see Carl Brinkmann

Karl Brinkmann (born September 9, 1854 in Ragnit , Prussian Lithuania , † January 7, 1901 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer in local government.

Life

Brinkmann attended the Royal Lithuanian Provincial School in Tilsit . After graduating from high school , he enrolled at the Albertus University in Königsberg in the summer semester of 1873 . He was in the Corps Masovia and proved himself as a fox major and consenior . After the exam, the legal clerkship and the assessor examination at the Higher Regional Court of Königsberg , he settled as a lawyer in Tilsit in 1880 . In 1883 he was elected mayor of Tilsit. Since he was involved in the German Liberal Party , he was refused confirmation by the government in Gumbinnen . In 1894 he was elected by the city ​​council of Königsberg i. Pr. To the second mayor. When he spoke for the city at the inauguration of the New Synagogue in Königsberg , he turned against the emerging hostility towards Jews . From 1895 he worked on the main committee of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare . Just elected second mayor of Berlin, he died there in 1901 at the age of 46. He was buried in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . The grave has not been preserved. The Kaliningrad City Archives have no documents or pictures from Brinkmann.

Publications

• Voluntary and professional activity in urban poor relief . Duncker and Humblot, Leipzig 1894. GoogleBooks
• The poor relief in its relation to the achievements of the social legislation . Duncker and Humblot, Leipzig 1897, GoogleBooks
• with Willi Cuno : The most important provisions of the civil code for the poor . Duncker and Humblot, Leipzig 1899. GoogleBooks

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 , p. 24 f. ( PDF ; 2.2 MB).

Web links

• Brinkmann's speech (PDF) 1896

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 2005 . Potsdam 2006.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 89/697
3. ↑ Brinkmann's speech (PDF)
4. ↑ Biographical Lexicon on the History of German Social Policy 1871–1945 . Kassel 2010.
5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 231.