Leopold von Casselmann

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Leopold Casselmann , from 1907 Ritter von Casselmann , (born June 29, 1858 in Fischbeck , † May 23, 1930 in Bayreuth ) was a German politician. As a member of the National Liberal Party , he was a member of the Reichstag and the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies and served as Lord Mayor of Bayreuth from 1900 until his resignation in 1919.

Life

Leopold von Casselmann's grave in the family grave at the Bayreuth city cemetery

Casselmann was born in Fischbeck in the Electorate of Hesse in 1858 . In 1871 his father moved to Bayreuth as the district secretary of the Agricultural Association, where 13-year-old Leopold graduated from high school. He studied law at the University of Marburg , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In Munich he became active in the Corps Isaria in 1880 . He graduated as Dr. iur. from. He became a reserve officer in 1883 and worked as a lawyer in Bayreuth from 1886 .

In 1891 he was municipal magistrate and as a successor to Friedrich von Feustel member of the Reichstag . After Theodor von Muncker's death, he was elected mayor with legal knowledge in 1900. On December 21, 1907, he was raised to the rank of personal nobility by the king and at the same time received the title of mayor .

The ultra-conservative Casselmann was considered a mortal enemy of social democracy ; he was a politician in a city that was divided into a two-class society. Thanks to an electoral law that was linked to possession of civil rights and tied eligibility to high fees, the workers were largely excluded, women and soldiers entirely, from local political life. Fellow citizens of “social democratic sentiments” as “not innocent citizens” could neither become members of the liberal Bayreuth Citizens' Association nor join the voluntary medical column of the Red Cross .

In 1897 he was appointed to the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies , where he was appointed Vice President as leader of the National Liberal parliamentary group in 1917 and was designated as Minister of Justice a few days before November 8, 1918 . However, the November Revolution put an end to his political career.

On the night of November 9, 1918, a workers 'and soldiers' council was founded in the city , but it left the strongly conservative magistrate as well as Casselmann in office and dignity as mayor. The latter openly stated that as a monarchist he could not become a republican overnight because he was not a “lump of opinion”. One day after the outbreak of the Speck Putsch in Bayreuth, he submitted his resignation on February 18, 1919 and officially resigned on June 30, 1919.

On his resignation, the Bayreuth city council granted him honorary citizenship and the golden honorary citizen coin. In 1924 he was one of the founders of the National Liberal Party in Bavaria (NLP), which merged with the DNVP in 1927 . As a pensioner, von Casselmann remained in Bayreuth and died there on May 23, 1930. He was a member of the Bayreuth Freemason Lodge Eleusis for secrecy .

Honors

  • Royal Privy Council
  • Knight of the Bavarian Crown Order and holder of various Bavarian, Prussian, Hessian, Anhalt and Bulgarian orders
  • Iron cross on a black and white ribbon and various orders from the Red Cross
  • Honorary citizen of the city of Bayreuth
  • Street naming in Bayreuth

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 173 , 607.
  2. ↑ a b Bernd Mayer  : The building association makes city history. In: 90 Years Bauverein Bayreuth , p. 11 ff.
  3. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth as it was. Flash lights from the city's history 1850–1950 . 2nd Edition. Gondrom, Bayreuth 1981, p. 86 f .
personal data
SURNAME Casselmann, Leopold von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Casselmann, Leopold Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NLP), MdR, Lord Mayor of Bayreuth
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Fischbeck
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1930
Place of death Bayreuth