Max Rosengart

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Max Rosengart (born June 18, 1855 in Hundersingen , † May 19, 1943 in Stockholm ) was a lawyer , council member and honorary citizen in Heilbronn as well as longstanding chairman of the South German People's Party .

Family and life

The ancestors of Rosengart were protective Jews of the barons von Liebenstein and the princes von Schwarzenberg. Max was one of several children of a farming family from Hundersingen (today part of Münsingen) who also ran the “Zum Rößle” inn. He made his Abitur in Ulm , where he also completed his military service. He studied law in Tübingen and Leipzig and later became a lawyer in Heidesheim . In October 1884 Rosengart came to Heilbronn, where he opened a law firm. In Heilbronn he married Emma, ​​geb. Dannheiser. From 1892 the Rosengart family owned the house at Wilhelmstrasse 7 , which has belonged to the city of Heilbronn since 1937.

Act

In 1890, Max Rosengart joined the Heilbronn municipal council for the South German People's Party , which in Württemberg followed the tradition of the Democratic People's Party , to which he belonged initially for a few years and then from 1903 to 1928. On behalf of the bourgeois colleges, he temporarily shared the business of Lord Mayor Paul Hegelmaier with Georg Härle and Gustav Kiess , against whom impeachment proceedings were ongoing. During this time, the construction of the municipal swimming pool was carried out and the decision to break through Kramstrasse (later: Kaiserstrasse) to the avenue, which was important for the development of the cityscape. Rosengart was also chairman of the supervisory board of the housing association.

Max Rosengart belonged to the group of young democrats who, together with Theodor Heuss , Ernst Jäckh and Leonhard Frank, prepared and enforced the election of Friedrich Naumann to the Reichstag in 1907 . For many years Rosengart was chairman of the South German People's Party. In 1929 he became an honorary member of the Democratic Party of Württemberg.

In 1927 the connecting road from Sontheimer Strasse to Hohrainstrasse in Heilbronn was renamed Rosengartstrasse . On his 75th birthday in 1930 he was granted honorary citizenship in Heilbronn , “in recognition of the special services that he devoted to the city in the most selfless activity over 30 years”. In 1939 the Jewish lawyer emigrated to Stockholm .

Appreciation

Willy Dürr about Max Rosengart 1955: "There was hardly an area in which he was not leading through his keen intellect, his quick perception, his expertise, his brilliant eloquence, his quick-wittedness ... thanks to his personal kindness, his all-encompassing education, especially in all areas of art, his fresh, lively, spirited, friendly manner was valued everywhere as a person. "

The Rosengartstraße in Heilbronn was named after him.

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  1. ↑ Bayerische Israelitische Gemeindezeitung ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.compactmemory.de
  2. ↑ Christhard Schrenk , Hubert Weckbach , Susanne Schlösser: From Helibrunna to Heilbronn. A city history (=  publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 36 ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8062-1333-X , p. 161 .
personal data
SURNAME Rosengart, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Dog singing
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1943
Place of death Stockholm