Karl Göttelmann

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Karl Emil Göttelmann (born November 3, 1858 in Wörrstadt , † April 3, 1928 in Mainz ) was a German economist and politician .

biography

Göttelmann was born in Wörrstadt in Rhineland-Hesse, about 20 km from Mainz. He was the son of a court clerk and, after graduating from high school in Mainz, attended the universities in Leipzig and Giessen . There he studied economics and law. He finally received his doctorate in Giessen.

He embarked on an administrative career and worked in several cities and towns in the Grand Duchy of Hesse before he was elected mayor on February 25, 1904 in Mainz.

As early as 1895 he was president of the Mainz Carneval Association , an important position in Mainz. He was also a member of the Mainz Masonic lodge "The Friends of Concord".

The Lord Mayor

When Lord Mayor Heinrich Gassner died in September 1905, the city council elected Göttelmann unanimously on October 7, 1905 as his successor for twelve years. It was Göttelmann who turned the city of Mainz into a large city with over 100,000 inhabitants by incorporating Mombach in 1907. The districts of Kastel (1908), Amöneburg (1908) and Kostheim (1913) on the right bank of the Rhine followed . He was in office from 1905 to 1919. Also Weisenau should be during his tenure in 1912, amalgamated, but what was not until the 1930th

The economist

Substantial investments were made in the infrastructure and local public transport with the electric tram was expanded. He simplified the flow of traffic over the bridge by abolishing the bridge fee. The railway ring around Mainz was closed with the inauguration of the Main Bridge near Hochheim in 1913. The further expansion of Mainz into a modern city, including supplying households with gas connections, electrification, planning a central municipal waterworks (Hofgut Schönau in Ried , Hesse , in the south of the Rüsselsheim district ) and building the municipal hospital (inaugurated in 1914), as well as the renovation of the Old town was driven by him.

A friend and admirer gave his winery to the city ​​of Mainz , albeit only subject to conditions that were easy to meet: Göttelmann had to look after the puppy Molly for life.

Towards the end of the First World War (1917), the Mainz city council decided to found a "Gesellschaft mbH for the construction of small apartments in the city of Mainz", a forerunner of today's Mainz housing .

Hospitals

Several hospitals were founded on his initiative or with his support, such as a municipal hospital on Langenbeckstrasse and the Hildegardis hospital on the Römersteinen .

schools

Several schools were founded on his initiative or with his support, such as the Oberrealschule (today Frauenlob-Gymnasium) in Schulstraße, today Adam Karrillon- Straße, (1906), the Realgymnasium (today Schlossgymnasium ) in Greiffenclaustraße (1914), the Goetheschule, which was the largest primary school building in Hesse in 1908, conversion of the Carmelite school (1912) and new primary schools in the fast-growing, newly incorporated suburbs of Mombach (Pestalozzi School 1911) and Kastel.

Public buildings

The construction of the city ​​library (1913) helped the Jugendstil in Mainz to break through. The new main post office building on Bahnhofstrasse and the justice building, including the prison (1911), were still purely functional buildings.

The politician

Because of his great merits, Göttelmann was re-elected Lord Mayor in 1917, after the first term of twelve years. The mayor had his hands on the fact that the Mainz population was reasonably well supplied with food. The Nagelsäule memorial on Liebfrauenplatz in 1916 was intended to set an example of the willingness to make sacrifices and the ability to suffer among the people of Mainz at that time.

His successor, Karl Külb, also grew out of the Municipal Office for War Economics . When Mainz was finally occupied by the French again in 1918 , Göttelmann was deposed after just under three months on February 11, 1919 and deported across the Rhine border, which made him suffer a lot.

Awards

Göttelmann was appointed by Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig in 1911 as a lifelong member of the 1st Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . He was a member of the state parliament until the November Revolution of 1918.

Göttelmannstrasse in the Upper Town of Mainz , which leads past the city and Volkspark to Weisenau, was named after him.

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 148.

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personal data
SURNAME Göttelmann, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Göttelmann, Karl Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord Mayor of Mainz
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Wörrstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1928
Place of death Mainz