Max Bleicken

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Bleick Max Bleicken (born May 27, 1869 in Bredstedt ; † June 18, 1959 in Cuxhaven ) was a Hamburg politician and mayor of Cuxhaven.

biography

Bleicken studied philology and theology for four semesters at the University of Kiel , then from 1892 to 1895 law and economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and again in Kiel. He was a trainee at the Hamburg Senate and was having qualified assessor and 1900 Councilor in the Upper School Board .

In 1907, by resolution of the Hamburg Senate, Cuxhaven became a municipality and Bleicken became the first mayor after being elected by the municipal assembly. At first he had only one employee, soon afterwards a city secretary, a clerk and the messenger.
During the November Revolution, Bleicken was mayor of Cuxhavens until 1931, with the future mayor Karl Olfers being his deputy from 1924 . When Bleicken left in 1931, the city's administration consisted of 53 employees. During his time, the Ritzebüttler School was established in 1914, the Cuxhaven Town Hall in 1917 and the vocational school (today the Cuxhaven Adult Education Center ) in 1927 . In old age he went blind. Critical statements after 1933 led to a brief Gestapo detention in Hanover.

After the First World War he sat from 1919 to 1921 for the German Democratic Party (DDP) in the Hamburg parliament .

Honor

The Bleickenschule in Cuxhaven was named after him.

plant

  • Draft of a city code for the state of Hamburg including justification. Westermann publishing house, Braunschweig and Berlin 1918.
  • The Three Cities Corner (Comedy in 3 Aufz.), Hamburg 1919.
  • Hamburg Prussian? . Memorandum on the draft constitution for the Hamburg state, Hamburg 1918.
  • About the city of Cuxhaven - Hygiene Organization of the League of Nations, [International study trip including advanced training lectures for foreign medical officials], together with Andrew Grapengeter , Germany 1927.
  • The first 100 years of the Sparkasse des Office Ritzebüttel. Rauschenplat publishing house, Cuxhaven 1931.

literature

  • Ursula Büttner : Political new beginning in difficult times: Election and work of the first democratic citizenship 1919–21. State Center for Civic Education Hamburg, Otto Heinevetter Verlag, Hamburg 1994, p. 136.

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personal data
SURNAME Bleicken, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bleicken, Bleick Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DDP), Member of the Bundestag and Mayor of Cuxhaven
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Bredstedt
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1959
Place of death Cuxhaven