Karl Racké

Karl Racké, contemporary illustration

Karl Racké (born February 2, 1825 in Mainz ; † May 12, 1898 in Bodenheim ) was Mayor of Mainz from May 23, 1871 to March 27, 1872.

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Karl Racké was the son of the businessman Jakob Racké and his wife Anna Maria née Wüst. He also entered the merchant class himself. His brother was the Reichstag deputy Nicola Racké (1847-1908), who in turn had married the niece of the long-time Mainz diocese and canon Christoph Moufang .

In the period from 1862 to 1870, Karl Racké was politically active in the Mainz city council. When Kommerzienrat Franz Schott resigned from the mayor's office in June of the war year 1871 , Racké took up the position as successor to Ludwig Reuleaux, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, who was elected but immediately resigned for personal reasons . During his tenure, Mainz was connected to the Rhine-Hessian hinterland by the Alzey – Mainz railway line. Racké initiated negotiations with the Mainz fortress government for the city ​​expansion . After only ten months in office, he resigned himself - also for personal reasons. After his resignation as mayor, he became director of Süddeutsche Immobilien AG.

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• Mainz: personalities of the city's history ; Wolfgang Balzer; Kügler Verlag, Ingelheim 1985-1993
  • Volume 1: Honorary citizens of Mainz, princes of Mainz, military figures, Mayors of Mainz ISBN 3-924124-01-9

Web links

• Racké, Karl Anton. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Neubach: Mayor in the town hall 1800-1974. In: Bruno Funk, Wilhelm Jung : The Mainz Town Hall, self-published by the Mainz municipal administration, the Mainz publishing house and Will & Rothe printing company 1974