Max Hobrecht

Maximilian "Max" Hobrecht (born December 13, 1827 in Königsberg , today Kaliningrad , † September 1, 1899 in Rathenow ) was a German poet and politician .

Max Hobrecht was the son of Ludolf Hobrecht, an East Prussian landowner, royal economist and commissioner (died 1866), and Isabella Hobrecht, b. Johnson (died 1891). His older brother Arthur Hobrecht became mayor of Berlin and later Prussian finance minister, his second brother James Hobrecht was a Prussian town planner and town planning officer in Berlin.

After studying at the Royal Albertus University in Königsberg and later at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau , he worked as a journalist for Die Grenzboten in Dresden .

From 1848 to 1850 he lived in the USA to escape the turmoil of the revolution . After his return he married Marie Helene Hübener in 1865, daughter of the Rathenower steam mill and brick factory owner Carl Hübener. After the death of his father-in-law, he and his brother-in-law Karl Hübener continued to run the steam mill as a partner. He was a member of the National Liberal Party in Rathenow. In the Rathenow city parliament he was city councilor for 32 years. He held the office of head of the city council for 22 years. From November 12, 1873 to June 30, 1876 he was also a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency constituency Potsdam VII ( Westhavelland - Zauch-Belzig ).

On December 13, 1897 he was named honorary citizen of Rathenow by the Rathenow city parliament on the occasion of his 70th birthday . Until after 1945 the Hobrechtstraße (today part of the Friedrich-Ebert-Ring) in Rathenow was named after him.

Writing

Max Hobrecht published short stories and poems . His most famous works are “Hutten in Rostock” (about his biographical research on Ulrich von Hutten in Rostock ) and “ Luther on the Koburg ”. In the novella "The Triumph" he made the demolition of the Jedi Gate in Rathenow the topic. With the poem "Die Linde" he created a literary monument to the tree that stood in front of his Rathenow house at Steinstrasse 17. In the novella “Untertor in Archenau” he describes the life of the Rathenower around 1886. Hobrecht's books were mostly published by Rathenower Babenzien-Verlag.

Works

• "Old Prussian Stories", 1882 (together with his brother Arthur Hobrecht)
• "From the Eastern Frontier", 1885, three novellas ("Holidays", "Marienburg", "Vis Maior")
• "Between Judica and Palmarum", 1885, collection of short stories (four short stories)
• “Hutten in Rostock”, 1886, story
• "New Novellas", 1890, collection of novels ("The Triumph", "Spring Idyll", "In the Game of Waves", "Telemaque")
• "Luther on the Koburg 1530", Frankfurt am Main 1892, verse epic

literature

• Biography of Max Hobrecht , Heinz-Walter Knackmuß, 2011
• A Hobrecht rarely comes alone , Märkische Allgemeine , October 29, 2015