Ludwig Weber (politician)

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Ludwig Weber (born March 25, 1875 in Hanover ; † 1942 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer , police director , Prussian deputy representative of the Reichsrat as well as local politician , senator , mayor , ministerial official , state secretary in the Prussian Ministry of Finance and commissioner at Rentenbank and chairman of the supervisory board .

Life

Ludwig Weber was born in Hanover in 1875 during the early days of the German Empire . He attended high school in Hanover and then studied law and economics in Tübingen. Leipzig, Berlin and Göttingen. He graduated in 1896 with a grade of "excellent" and became 1897 in Goettingen with "summa cum laude" for Dr. jur. PhD. He then spent three years traineeship at various courts and passed the second state examination in 1902. From 1902 to 1903 he was legal advisor at a company in Witten an der Ruhr.

From August 1903 Weber was Göttingen first as Senator operates around three years later, the tasks of both the city counsel to take over and the Göttingen police director.

In April 1908 Weber moved to the then independent Altona and was appointed to the city's magistrate.

Before the First World War , from 1913 and until 1920, Ludwig Weber worked as a paid senator in his home town of Hanover. During the war he was an officer and from 1917 served as captain of the military administration in Romania. From 1916 to September 1, 1919, he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Hanover for the Hanover City constituency. Senator Dr. Arthur crowd in the state parliament after.

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic - after 1918 - he was elected 2nd Mayor of Hanover. During this time he became a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP) In the run-up to the unification of the then independent industrial city of Linden with Hanover - after the resignation of the former Hanoverian city director Heinrich Tramm and the election of his successor Mayor Robert Leinert - Ludwig Weber was one of the moderate supporters The incorporation of Linden into Hanover, proposed by the Linden mayor Hermann Lodemann and scientifically founded by the statistician Karl Seutemann with his memorandum, Linden Development and the Financial Conditions of the City from 1885 to 1907 , more correctly the unification of the two independent cities at the time. Like other representatives of the Hanoverian magistrate, Ludwig Weber feared after the local elections on February 23, 1919, in which a clear Social Democratic majority had been elected in Linden , “[...] that the incorporation would cause political conditions to develop so far to the left would that the bourgeoisie was completely pressed against the wall- "

From 1920 until 1925 Ludwig Weber was then Undersecretary of State in the Prussian Ministry of Finance, and also deputy Prussian representative to the Reichsrat. He also worked as a commissioner for the Reichsrat at the Rentenbank. In 1925 he was given temporary retirement.

Also after the German hyperinflation , Ludwig Weber was Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Preussag from 1924 to 1925 .

During the time of National Socialism from 1938 and up to the year of his death in 1942 in World War II , Ludwig Weber published, partly in collaboration with architects such as Hans Volkart , publications with examples of home building or their financing by building societies and savings banks .

Fonts (selection)

  • Ludwig Weber, Hans Volkart: Good homes. Suggestions and examples. Works by 41 architects, 65 completed houses with 123 views, 127 floor plans and many explanations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1938.
  • Ludwig Weber, Konstantin Gutowski : The public building societies and their new conditions (= Sparkassenhefte ). Publishing house for Sparkasse publications, Berlin 1940.
  • Good homes. Suggestions and examples. Work by 42 architects, 67 completed houses with 134 views, 153 floor plans and many explanations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1941.
  • Cooperation between savings bank and building society (= special series for specialist training ). Publishing house for Sparkasse publications, Berlin 1942.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : The Reichsrat - Representation of the German states in the legislation and administration of the Reich 1919–1934 . Droste Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-7700-5279-X .
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 381.

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g o. V .: Weber, Ludwig in the database “Files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic ”online on the website of the German Federal Archives
  2. ↑ a b Compare the information from the German National Library
  3. ^ A b Klaus Mlynek : City expansion and urban development in the 20s. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein : History of the city of Hanover . Volume 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , pp. 483-490; here: p. 485; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: Seute man, Karl. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . P. 332f .; same content in: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) u. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 563; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ Compare, for example, the information provided by the Bavarian Library Association
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, city counsel and police director, member of parliament and mayor, author, state secretary and chairman of the supervisory board
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1942
Place of death Berlin