Martin Donandt

Martin Donandt ( Martin Donatus Ferdinand Donandt ; born January 18, 1852 in Bremen ; † January 23, 1937 ibid) was a Senator and mayor of Bremen .

Life

Martin Donandt was born the sixth of nine children of the lawyer and senator Ferdinand Donandt . His mother Anna Maria Fredericke was the granddaughter of the Bremen councilor Johann Gildemeister . After attending grammar school, Donandt studied law at the universities of Erlangen , Berlin and Göttingen . In Erlangen he became a member of the Bubenruthia fraternity in 1872 . In 1877 he received his doctorate. jur. and settled as a lawyer in Bremen. Donandt was elected to the judges' college in Bremerhaven in 1884 .

According to the eight-class suffrage of the Bremen Constitution, which was valid until 1918, he was elected to the Bremen citizenship in 1891 for the class of academics . On March 21, 1898 he was elected Senator for life and from 1912 represented Bremen in the Federal Council . During the First World War he was a member of the war deputation . After the end of the Bremen Soviet Republic in February 1919, Donandt belonged to the provisional government of Bremen. On May 18, 1920 he was elected to the Senate under the new Bremen Constitution and was President of the Senate and thus Bremen's Mayor .

Together with Senator Heinrich Bömers , Donandt headed the supervisory board of the state-owned Hansa-Bank , which was founded in 1928 and invested 10 million Reichsmarks in preferred shares in 1931, primarily on the initiative of the businessman Bömers, to support the financially troubled northern wool . The resulting under Senator Bömers mesh with the private sector ( "System Bömers") led the deeply indebted Bremen state in collapse of Nordwolle -Konzerns the Lahusens to the brink of insolvency.

In March 1933, Donandt was ousted from his position as President of the Senate by the National Socialists .

Martin Donandt was to be classified by his political convictions as national and liberal. He was a member of the DNVP , but resigned in 1929. He personally admired Otto von Bismarck . Donandt's main political field of activity was financial policy. After the loss of the German colonies , he supported the goals of the German colonial movement of regaining the former territories. Theodor Spitta , Donandt's deputy in the office of President of the Senate for many years, later assessed his political stance as follows:

"Donandt never left any doubt that he considered the democratization of our public life to be fatal."

He saw "the Bremen constitution like the Reich constitution of Weimar only as an emergency building."

Martin Donandt married his wife Ida in Bremen in 1885, daughter of the Reichsbank director Rudolf Carl Wilhelm Zimmermann in Berlin . The marriage had a daughter and sons Ferdinand , President of the Evangelical Church in Bremen , and Hermann August, Professor of Conveyor Technology in Karlsruhe .

Martin Donandt's grave is in the Riensberg cemetery .

Honors

Commemorative coin Bene Merenti from Lübeck 1927
Hamburg Medal of Honor in Gold 1927
In Bremerhaven, the mayor-Martin-Donandt-Platz was named after him.
In Bremen, Donandtstrasse was named after him.

literature

Friedrich Prüser : Donandt, Martin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 69 f. ( Digitized version ).
Karl H. Schwebel : Donandt, Martin Donatus Ferdinand. In: Historical Society Bremen , State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 115 (column 2) to p. 117 (column 2).
Theodor Spitta : Dr. Martin Donandt, Mayor of Bremen. A picture of life and time in Bremen. Bremen 1938; Storm, Bremen 1948
Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-86108-616-6 .
Wolfram Wette: Militarism in Germany. History of a warlike culture. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89678-641-8 .
Hartmut Müller : Lüderitz and the colonial myth. Colonial movements in Bremen in discourse. Contributions to Science and Society Volume 6 . University of Bremen, Bremen 1982, ISBN 3-88722-006-4 .
Heinz Gustafsson: Namibia, Bremen and Germany. A rocky road to friendship . Aschenbeck and Holstein, Delmenhorst / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-932292-40-5 .
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 215.

Web links

Literature by and about Martin Donandt in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, p. 215.
^ Herbert Black Forest : History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Volume 3. Bremen in the Weimar Republic 1918–1933. Extended and improved edition, Edition Temmen , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 , p. 530.
^ Karl H. Schwebel : Bömers, Heinrich Ferdinand Emil. In: Bremische Biographie 1912–1962 . Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 61f.
↑ Theodor Spitta : Dr. Martin Donandt - Mayor of Bremen: a Bremen image of life and time. Recorded for the Donandt family by Theodor Spitta. as Hs gedr., Belserdr., Stuttgart 1938, p. 101.
↑ Theodor Spitta : Dr. Martin Donandt - Mayor of Bremen: a Bremen image of life and time. Recorded for the Donandt family by Theodor Spitta. as Hs gedr., Belserdr., Stuttgart 1938, p. 94.

personal data
SURNAME	Donandt, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Donandt, Martin Donatus Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Senator and Mayor in Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH	January 18, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen
DATE OF DEATH	January 23, 1937
Place of death	Bremen

[1] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, p. 215.

[2] Herbert Black Forest : History of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Volume 3. Bremen in the Weimar Republic 1918–1933. Extended and improved edition, Edition Temmen , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 , p. 530.

[3] Karl H. Schwebel : Bömers, Heinrich Ferdinand Emil. In: Bremische Biographie 1912–1962 . Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 61f.

[4] Theodor Spitta : Dr. Martin Donandt - Mayor of Bremen: a Bremen image of life and time. Recorded for the Donandt family by Theodor Spitta. as Hs gedr., Belserdr., Stuttgart 1938, p. 101.

[5] Theodor Spitta : Dr. Martin Donandt - Mayor of Bremen: a Bremen image of life and time. Recorded for the Donandt family by Theodor Spitta. as Hs gedr., Belserdr., Stuttgart 1938, p. 94.