Karl Gebensleben

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Friedrich Karl Gebensleben (born November 7, 1871 in Schöppenstedt ; † January 31, 1936 in Braunschweig ) was a German engineer , town planner and city councilor in Braunschweig and, after the unlawful impeachment of Ernst Boehme ( SPD ) by the National Socialists on March 13, 1933, Deputy Mayor for almost six months .

Life

Karl Gebensleben was a son of Friedrich Gebensleben (1835–1906) and his wife Regina, geb. Hildebrandt (1844-1920). After graduating from high school, he studied civil engineering and railway construction at the Technical University of Braunschweig . After the exam he worked as a civil servant at the Prussian Railway, but then switched to the service of the city of Braunschweig in 1901 and at the same time took up a teaching position at the TH Braunschweig. In 1911 he was appointed city building councilor and city councilor of Spandau . After the retirement of the long-standing Braunschweig city building councilor Ludwig Winter in 1915, Gebensleben succeeded him.

During his term of office, u. a. the construction of the Braunschweiger Stadtbad , which was inaugurated on December 3, 1932, the completion of the Braunschweiger Hafen in 1934 and the start of the renovation of the old town . In addition, Karl Gebensleben was Braunschweig's deputy mayor for eight years. He died on January 31, 1936, the day of his retirement .

Deputy Mayor in 1933

The SPD politician Ernst Böhme had been Lord Mayor of the city since he was elected by the Braunschweig city council on November 23, 1929. By order of Dietrich Klagges , NSDAP interior minister of the Free State of Braunschweig , Böhme was illegally removed from his office on March 13, 1933 and taken into " protective custody ". Gebensleben was made his deputy and held this position until October 18, 1933, when NSDAP member Wilhelm Hesse Bohmes succeeded him in office.

The Braunschweigische Landeszeitung wrote on March 14, 1933: "Stadtbaurat Gebensleben, the longest-serving city councilor, has taken over the duties of Mayor Böhme [and] will for the time being lead the affairs of the council."

Works

family

In early 1906, Karl Gebensleben married Elisabeth von Alten (1883–1937), with whom he had two children, Irmgard (1906–1993) and Eberhard (1910–1944). In 1929 Irmgard Gebensleben married the Dutch doctor August Brester, with whom she had four children, and lived in the Netherlands until the end of her life. Eberhard Gebensleben fell as first lieutenant d. R. during World War II on September 9, 1944 near Bruges in Belgium .

"I think of you so much"

Karl Gebensleben's Dutch granddaughter Hedda Kalshoven-Brester (1930–2016), daughter of his daughter Irmgard, published the book I think so much about you in 1991 . A German-Dutch correspondence 1920–1949 , which documents the almost 30 years of her mother's correspondence with her family in Germany between 1920 and 1949.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronicle of the city of Braunschweig for 1936
  2. ↑ Kalshoven: I think about you so much. 1995, p. 494
  3. ↑ a b Kalshoven: I think about you so much. 1995, p. 24
  4. ^ Reinhard Bein : Paths of life under dictatorship: Contributions to the history of Braunschweig under National Socialism. P. 21
  5. ↑ Margot Ruhlender: Stadtbad. In: Luitgard Camerer, Manfred RW Garzmann, Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf, Norman-Mathias Pingel (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 217
  6. ↑ Kalshoven: I think about you so much. 1995, p. 25
  7. ^ Hans-Ulrich Ludewig : Böhme, Ernst. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 76
  8. ↑ Hartmut Nickel: Hesse, Wilhelm. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 270
  9. ↑ Kalshoven: I think about you so much. 1995, p. 174 f.
  10. ↑ Kalshoven: I think about you so much. 1995, p. 494
  11. ↑ Kalshoven: I think about you so much. 1995, p. 426
  12. ^ Obituary for Hedda Kalshoven-Brester
personal data
SURNAME Give life, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gebensleben, Friedrich Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Schöppenstedt
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1936
Place of death Braunschweig