Karl Tackert

Karl Tackert

Karl August Friedrich Tackert (born July 4, 1837 in Hagenow ; † September 8, 1929 in Schwerin ) was a German chamber engineer (engineer of the court chamber ) and mayor of Schwerin.

Life

Tackert was born the son of an official registrar , attended a high school in Rostock and then became a student of a chamber engineer in Hagenow. In 1859 he took his exams and was then assistant chamber engineer at the Grand Ducal Chamber in Wismar . Then he studied at the Polytechnic in Vienna and made his chamber engineer exam in 1864. During his studies in 1861 he became a member of the Olympia Vienna fraternity . He worked in the Schwerin chamber survey office and in 1865 became a chamber engineer in Neubukow , later a chamber councilor in Schwerin. From 1877 to 1883 he was councilor / executive senator of the city council of Schwerin, where in 1879 he advocated the construction of a water pipe . In 1883 he became second mayor of Schwerin, and in 1898 he was elected first mayor. His brother was the forest manager Adolph Tackert .

Honors

In 1899 he was appointed Privy Councilor, in 1907 Privy Councilor . When he retired in 1911, he became an honorary citizen of the city of Schwerin.

In 2014, Karl-Tackert-Strasse in the Göhrener Tannen industrial park in Schwerin was named after him; the original name of Tackertstrasse ( starting from Cecilien- and today's Schloßgartenallee on Ostorfer Hals ) was reversed during the Nazi era by incorporating it into the street Am Tannenhof .

Awards (selection)

• House order of the Wendish Crown , Knight's Cross
• Prussian Order of the Red Eagle , 3rd class
• Prussian Order of the Crown , 4th class

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Volume 6. Heidelberg 2005, pp. 1–2.

Individual evidence

1. ^ City gazette for the state capital Schwerin. Official notice of the state capital Schwerin. Edition 20/2014 of October 2, 2014, p. 3.