Karl Heinrich Lottner

Karl Heinrich Lottner

Memorial stone for the Lord Mayor of Koblenz Karl Heinrich Lottner at the main cemetery in Koblenz

Karl Heinrich Lottner (born July 31, 1825 in Koblenz ; † January 10, 1897 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer and Lord Mayor of Koblenz from 1867 to 1888 .

Life and work

Lottner was born the son of an artillery captain and studied law in Bonn. Here he was a member of the student union Corps Palatia Bonn . He worked as an assessor and justice of the peace at the Koblenz district court. After that he was justice of the peace in Saarlouis from 1855 , one year later in Stromberg . Lottner was elected to the office of mayor of Koblenz on June 26, 1867 by the city council. On August 12, 1868 he was awarded the title of Lord Mayor. Due to illness and increasing age, he resigned on November 29, 1887, but still ran the office until his successor Emil Schüller took over the office on April 16, 1888. Lottner then moved to Bonn and died there in 1897. He was buried in the Koblenz main cemetery on field 15, which was newly created in a term of office. Not far from his grave, a memorial stone commemorates Lottner.

Acting as the Lord Mayor of Koblenz

One of Lottner's first official acts was the purchase of the theater on October 10, 1867 for 25,700 thalers . On March 8, 1871, he acquired the hospital in Kastorstrasse. In the Kulturkampf in 1874, Lottner campaigned for the Catholic reading club, which had previously been banned by the police director. The housing situation in the city worried him. Koblenz was one of the most densely populated cities in Prussia . The reason was that the fortifications prevented any expansion of the city and Prussia refused to give up the facilities. The drinking water supply was also very poor. The water quality of the 34 public draw wells was catastrophic. Only part of the Koblenz population was supplied with the better spring water from Metternich , which came to Koblenz via the electoral drinking water pipeline since 1786 . Lottner therefore had a waterworks built on the Oberwerth in 1886 , which supplied the city with bank-filtered water.

The opening of the Güls railway bridge (1878) and the Horchheimer railway bridge (1879) as well as the Moselle railway station on May 1, 1879 also fell during his term of office. This also opened the Moselle route as part of the Berlin-Metz cannon railway. At the end of his term of office, Koblenz was removed from the Koblenz district on October 1, 1887 and declared a city .

literature

• Max Bär : From the history of the city of Koblenz. 1814-1914. Krabbensche Buchdruckerei, Koblenz 1922.
• Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads. People from the city's history - namesake for streets and squares. Verlag für Werbung Blätter GmbH Mülheim-Kärlich, Ed .: Bernd Weber, 2005 (2nd revised and expanded edition).
• Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
  • Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X
  • Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5