Karl Porzelt

Karl August Bernhard Porzelt (born August 20, 1871 in Cologne , † March 30, 1943 in Mönchengladbach ) was a German lawyer and local politician .

Karl Porzelt (1871–1943), first alderman of the city of Mönchengladbach

Life

Karl Porzelt was born in Cologne as the son of the businessman Paul Porzelt (1844–1923) and his wife Helene (1847–1879), née Harperath . After attending the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne, Porzelt studied law in Marburg , Berlin and Bonn before receiving his doctorate in both rights at the University of Leipzig in 1897 . During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Marburg fraternity in 1890 and of the Frankonia fraternity in Bonn in 1892 .

From 1899 he was a court assessor in Berlin before he then worked in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Krefeld . In October 1900 he was appointed First Alderman of the City of Mönchengladbach by the incumbent Mayor Hermann Piecq . As an alderman, he carried the title of mayor and was also known as the “mayor of Waldhausen”. Porzelt was dismissed as an alderman in 1930, was "mayor without office" and was retired in 1933.

family

Karl Porzelt was married to Maria Elisabeth "Ella" (1874–1956), née Krauss, with whom he had two children.

Honors

In 1956 in Mönchengladbach the former General-Kraus-Str. named after him.

Publications

• The provisional enforceability of the judgments of the Reich Civil Proceedings Code §§ 648–659 CPO Dissertation University of Leipzig 1896.
• The military tax in 1913.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 161-162.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian Wolfsberger: The town hall Waldhausen. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 22, 2017 ; accessed on January 22, 2017 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Eva Siebenherz: What was the street called earlier? Accessed December 19, 2016 (German).