Karl Selke

Johann Karl Adolf Selke (* 1836 in Mehlsack ; † 1893 in Wildbad ) was a German municipal official.

Life

Coming from Luckenwalde , Selke was elected Lord Mayor of Elbing for 12 years on January 22nd, 1869 . As a reserve officer he took part in the Franco-German War . From 1874 to 1893 he was Lord Mayor of Königsberg (Prussia) . He promoted the sewage system , water supply , gas station and elementary school system and put the financial budget in order. From 1888 he represented East Prussia's provincial capital in the "OB faction" of the Prussian manor house .

His oil painting by Arthur Weiß (* 1866) adorned the Junkersaal in the old town of Junkerhof, where the city council of Königsberg met. The city named a school after Selke, in which his portrait hung, painted by Alexander Kolde . In 1897 the street from Korinthendamm to Tamnau-Straße was named after him.

Selke was also involved as a writer and freemason . Lothar Selke was a grandson .

Web links

Literature by and about Karl Selke in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ territorial.de
^ Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg from A to Z. A city dictionary . Leer 1972

personal data
SURNAME	Selke, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Selke, Johann Karl Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian administrative officer, Lord Mayor of Elbing and Königsberg
DATE OF BIRTH	1836
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mehlsack , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	1893
Place of death	Wildbad , Baden

[1] territorial.de

[2] Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg from A to Z. A city dictionary . Leer 1972