Karl Heussenstamm

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Karl Heussenstamm's grave in Frankfurt's main cemetery

Karl Jakob Moritz Heussenstamm (born June 4, 1835 in Frankfurt am Main , † July 29, 1913 there ) was a German local politician and official.

Life and work

Karl Heussenstamm came from a family of carpenters that has been documented in Frankfurt since the 17th century. Only his father Georg Jakob Heussenstamm became a lawyer and mortgage bookkeeper. His son studied after graduating from school at the municipal gymnasium also his birthplace Law, in Heidelberg and Goettingen, where he joined the fraternity Hannovera joined

After graduation and doctorate as Dr. jur. Heussenstamm was initially a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main. There he belonged to the Democratic Association . In 1873 he was elected to the city council as a member of the Progressive People's Party . He was immediately given the office of secretary. A year later, Karl Heussenstamm became second chairman of the city council; from 1877 to 1880 he was first chairman. In that year he was elected Second Mayor (re-elected in 1892, retired in 1899). So he was first deputy to Lord Mayor Johannes von Miquel and from 1890 to Lord Mayor Franz Adickes .

Karl Heussenstamm was chairman of the local school authority and campaigned for the expansion of the simultaneous school , especially when efforts were made to build more denominational schools. In addition, he was a member of supervisory bodies of various social organizations.

After his retirement he continued to be active in local politics. He remained a member of the Hessian Landtag for Wiesbaden and Hessen-Nassau (1890–1910 Liberal Party, 1910–1913 Progressive People's Party) and held the chairmanship of the district association of the Wiesbaden administrative district until his death. Karl Heussenstamm, who never made a secret of his free and liberal convictions, mainly worked in the background during his time as Second Mayor. In the upper class Frankfurt am Main he was a partisan of the "common people".

Heussenstamm Foundation

Heussenstamm bequeathed his considerable fortune to the city of Frankfurt in a will with the stipulation that the interest income should be used for welfare maintenance. This resulted in the Heussenstamm Foundation, which went into distress during the inflationary period after the First World War, but was reactivated after the Second World War. It still exists today and is dedicated to helping artists and helping elderly people in need. During the Nazi dictatorship and its racist politics, other Frankfurt foundations, especially those owned by Jewish founders, were incorporated into the Heussenstamm Foundation. Today, the city and the foundation see it as their responsibility to name this injustice and to make the tradition of these incorporated foundations visible again.

Honors

The city of Frankfurt am Main honored the mayor and benefactor by the district Dornbusch the Heussenstamm street named after him.

His tomb can still be found in the Frankfurt main cemetery , Gewann G.

literature

  • NN: Heussenstamm Foundation. Frankfurt 1952. With a foreword by Walter Kolb.
  • Heussenstamm Foundation - history, tasks and documentation. Frankfurt 2010, publisher Heussenstamm Foundation.
  • Sabine Hock : Dr. jur. Karl Heussenstamm. Frankfurt 2012, published by the Heussenstamm Foundation.
  • Karin Görner: The disappeared foundations. Frankfurt 2012, published by the Heussenstamm Foundation.
  • Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 . P. 328.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 326.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heussenstamm Foundation: "Foundation" / subpage "History" , accessed on March 2, 2017.
  2. ^ Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the fraternity of Hannovera Göttingen, 1848-1998. Düsseldorf 1998, p. 19.
  3. ^ NN: Heussenstamm'sche Foundation . Frankfurt 1952. [With a foreword by Walter Kolb ].
  4. ↑ Information about the Heussenstamm Foundation at frankfurt.de
personal data
SURNAME Heussenstamm, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heussenstamm, Karl Jakob Moritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1913
Place of death Frankfurt am Main