Karl Pabst (Mayor)

Karl Pabst (around 1900)

Karl Pabst (born July 23, 1835 in Weimar ; † December 21, 1910 there ) German liberal local politician. He was Lord Mayor of Weimar.

Life

During his studies, Pabst became a member of the Teutonia Jena fraternity in 1853 .

Together with Louis Döllstädt (1843–1912), Pabst was the leading man in Weimar's city administration from the establishment of the German Empire in 1871 until his death. Pabst entered the administration of his hometown in 1871 and was elected to the municipal council in February 1873 , and in January 1876 as its chairman and mayor. In 1888 he received the title of "Lord Mayor" and was confirmed in his office in 1899 for life. From 1897 he was also chairman of the Thuringian Association of Cities.

During his tenure as mayor, Weimar got a water supply and sewer system . Aided by his commitment, Weimar played a pioneering role in the region in the environmental and health sector. "Pabst, who was deputy chairman of the international association against pollution of rivers, soil and air for several years, was particularly open to questions of urban hygiene, especially in the area of drainage and disposal ". During his tenure, school buildings and streets were paved and a "collection facility" for garbage was set up. Weimar received electric light and a tram under his leadership . These modernizations were, among other things, important prerequisites so that Weimar, as an up-and-coming tourist city , could absorb the growing stream of tourists.

Pabst was an honorary member of numerous associations, such as the "Society for Natural Science, Ethnology and Antiquity" since 1904. Since 1875 he was with Maria, born 16 years his junior. von Boetticher, daughter of the art historian Friedrich von Boetticher (art historian) married and thus brother-in-law of the doctor and genealogist Walter von Boetticher .

Pabst was buried in the main cemetery in Weimar. His estate has been in the Weimar city archive since 2008.

Honor

The Pabststrasse in Weimar is named after him.

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 266-267.
Entry: Pabst, Karl. In: Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke, Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Böhlau, Weimar 1993, ISBN 3-7400-0807-5 , p. 341.
Technical modernizer of a foreign city . In: Rathauskurier. Official Journal of the City of Weimar . Vol. 21, No. 23 (2010) (PDF; 1.1 MB), p. 5182.

Individual evidence

^ Ulrich Hess: History of Thuringia 1866 to 1914 . Edited from the estate by Volker Wahl . Böhlau, Weimar 1991, p. 434
↑ Marco Schrul: The environmental history of the city in the age of the industrial revolution. Developments, conflicts and actors in Apolda, Jena and Weimar (1850–1905) . Summary of the dissertation (PDF; 58 kB)
^ In: Rathauskurier. Official Journal of the City of Weimar . Vol. 20, No. 3 (2009), p. 4517.

personal data
SURNAME	Pabst, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lord Mayor of the City of Weimar
DATE OF BIRTH	July 23, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weimar
DATE OF DEATH	December 21, 1910
Place of death	Weimar

[1] Ulrich Hess: History of Thuringia 1866 to 1914 . Edited from the estate by Volker Wahl . Böhlau, Weimar 1991, p. 434

[2] Marco Schrul: The environmental history of the city in the age of the industrial revolution. Developments, conflicts and actors in Apolda, Jena and Weimar (1850–1905) . Summary of the dissertation (PDF; 58 kB)

[3] In: Rathauskurier. Official Journal of the City of Weimar . Vol. 20, No. 3 (2009), p. 4517.