Karl Glässing
Karl Glässing (born November 6, 1866 in Darmstadt , † January 22, 1952 in Wiesbaden , buried in Darmstadt) was Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden (non-party) and Chief Financial Officer in Darmstadt.
Life stations
Glässing, who was a Protestant denomination, was born as the son of the lawyer and district court actuary Karl Glässing and his wife Margarethe née Storck (their parents had married on April 20, 1898 in Offenbach). His brother Wilhelm Glässing became mayor in Darmstadt. After attending the Büdingen and Gießen high schools , he graduated from high school in 1887 . Glässing then studied law and political science in Munich and Gießen and completed his studies with a doctorate, Dr. jur. from. From 1892 he was in the Hessian state service as a finance assessor in the finance ministry in Darmstadt , in 1898 ministerial secretary in the ministry of finance there, 1900 permanent unskilled worker in the ministry, 1901 chief finance council, 1902 lecturing council, 1907 secret finance council, 1908 secret chief finance council. Since 1909 first alderman ( mayor ), since March 31, 1913 mayor of Wiesbaden, expelled in 1919 by decision of the commander-in-chief of the allied armies (takes his residence in Darmstadt ), officially resigned from office on December 1, 1922 with the appointment as president of the State Finance Office of the People's State of Hesse . After his retirement at the end of 1932, he returned to Wiesbaden.
Parliamentary offices
Glässing belonged to the Prussian mansion from 1914-18 and the Hessian state parliament from 1917-18.
Memberships
Glässing was also a member of the fraternities Alemannia Gießen (1886), Rugia Greifswald (1898), Frankonia Bonn (1925), Dresdensia Leipzig (1926) and Germania Strasbourg (1935).
Honors
A street in Wiesbaden and Darmstadt is named after him. According to his own statement, Glässing was close to the DVP . He also received the following medals: Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown and Knight's Cross I Class of the Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous .
literature
- Thomas Klein: Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945. (= Sources and research on Hessian history, 70; Ed. Hessische Historische Kommission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse), Darmstadt / Marburg 1988, ISBN 3-88443-159-5 , p. 128.
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 135-136.
Web links
- Karl Glässing in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic
- Glässing, Karl Christoph. Hessian biography. (As of January 22, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glässing, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden, Chief Finance President in Darmstadt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1952 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |