Max Küstner

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Max Küstner

Richard Max Küstner (born March 26, 1855 in Trossin ; † February 9, 1940 in Friedrichroda ) was a German municipal official in Saxony and Thuringia.

Life

Küstner was a son of the manor owner Otto Wilhelm Küstner (1818–1890) and the daughter of a manufacturer, Anna born. Steinmetz (1830–1877) from Eilenburg . He was the six years younger brother of the gynecologist Otto Küstner .

Küstner received private tuition and attended high school in Torgau . After graduating from high school, he enrolled in law at the University of Leipzig in the winter semester of 1875/76 . Actually a one-year volunteer , he became active on October 29, 1875 as a "beer soldier" in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig . Victor Weidtman was among his associates . On November 14, 1876 recipiert , he was Subsenior and Senior . He was sentenced to three times by the university court with (substantial) prison sentences . On March 11, 1878 inactivated , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin , the Royal University of Greifswald and the University of Kiel . After the first state examination (1882) he was a trainee lawyer at the Torgau District Court and in Hanau (1887). As a government trainee he came to Kassel and Minden , the Schmalkalden district and the Hanau magistrate. Then he was deputy bailiff in Petershagen .

Meuselwitz

In 1890 he was elected mayor of Meuselwitz from among 43 applicants . In the first term of office (1890-1896) he took care of the creation of the drainage system. He issued a local statute for the school community and regulated the salaries of elementary and middle school teachers, founded a boys 'training school, drafted a police ordinance for official food monitoring , regulated the residents' registration system, took care of social welfare and brought a trade exhibition to the city in 1895. He had parks laid out and the temple of the Muses built on the gallows hill. A popular assembly prompted the city council to elect the popular mayor for the 1898–1904 term of office. Küstner achieved the establishment of a local district court. Against the will of the city council, he pushed through the construction of a water pipe that was fed from sources purchased for this purpose - the "Küstnerquellen". He arranged for the purchase of a private gas company that provided the street lighting. He ran the construction of a gymnasium (1901) and had a uniform development plan drawn up, which prescribed front gardens and open construction . He promoted the equipment of the fire brigade and strengthened the official food control.

Friedrichroda

When his re-election in Meuselwitz was rejected, he undertook a year and a half journey through Belgium , France , Switzerland , Italy and North Africa in 1903/04 . Then he took over the office of mayor of Friedrichroda in Thuringia . He also made great contributions to the development of this city: construction of the hospital (mainly from private donations), sewage treatment plant , water supply through the development of new sources, improvement of street lighting, beautification of the city and its surroundings. In the Friedrichrodaer Zeitung he published many articles about local history. When the First World War broke out , he volunteered for the Landwehr . He came to the Eastern Front as a captain and company commander . Due to hearing damage, he was recalled and used as head of the prisoner-of-war camp in Ohrdruf . For political reasons he was not re-elected as mayor of Friedrichroda after the November Revolution. He also published articles about the native Dübener Heide . Küstner spent his retirement in Friedrichroda and Trossin. He remained unmarried throughout his life.

politics

From 1899 to 1902 Küstner was a member of the state parliament in the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg .

Honors

  • Max-Küstner-Strasse in Friedrichroda (1925)
  • Honorary member of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig (1927)
  • Honorary Citizen of Friedrichroda (1929)
  • Max Küstner sick and convalescent home in Friedrichroda (1933)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 3/563
personal data
SURNAME Küstner, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Küstner, Richard Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German municipal official in Saxony and Thuringia
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Trossin
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1940
Place of death Friedrichroda