Max von Mülberger

Portrait relief in Esslinger Mülbergerstrasse

Maximilian Georg Mühlberger , from 1912 von Mülberger , (born June 12, 1859 in Stuttgart ; † April 23, 1937 there ) was Lord Mayor of Esslingen am Neckar .

family

Mülberger was a son of the Finance Councilor Carl Mülberger in Stuttgart and his wife Emma, ​​née. Leisinger. The family came from Alsace and was related to the Cotta family in Tübingen. His brother Arthur Mülberger (1847–1907), doctor, writer and railway reformer, dealt with the socio-political ideas of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon . In 1894 Max Mülberger married his cousin Elisabeth Leisinger (1863–1933), a soprano at the Berlin Court Opera , with whom he had three children: Clara, Erika and Wolfgang Mülberger .

Life

Mülberger passed the matriculation examination in 1879 at the grammar school in Stuttgart. He then studied law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1880 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen . After the exams and traineeship training , he was a judge at the district courts of Stuttgart, Neuenbürg, Esslingen and Biberach. On April 7, 1892, he was elected the last Esslinger Stadtschultheißen ( mayor since 1893 ) for life. He held this office until his retirement on September 30, 1929. During the Kingdom of Württemberg from 1906 to 1918, Mülberger was initially a non-party member of the Second Chamber of the Württemberg Landtag .

In 1912 he joined the German party , but switched to the DDP after 1918 . From 1919 to 1924 he was a member of the Landtag of the Free People's State of Württemberg .

Mülberger was at times representative of Württemberg on the board of the German Association of Cities .

Mülbergerstrasse in Esslingen is named after him.

Honors

• Cross of Honor of the Order of the Württemberg Crown (1912)
• Ennoblement
• Honorary Citizen of Esslingen (1926)

literature

• Dorothee Bayer: Esslinger Heimatbuch , Esslingen 1982, pp. 168–170.
• Sylvia Greiffenhagen (Ed.): Haute-volée Social Democrats and Revolution Factory. The history of the Esslinger SPD (= Esslinger Studien, Vol. 16), Stadtarchiv Esslingen 1995, pp. 65–67.
• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 585 .
• Iris Sonnenstuhl-Fekete: Elisabeth Mülberger, née Leisinger , in: FemaleES. Searched for and discovered women's history. Stadtmuseum Esslingen o. J. (1999), pp. 32–41.
• Henrich Tiessen: Industrial development, social change and political movement in a 19th century Württemberg factory town: Esslingen 1848–1914 (= Esslinger Studien, Vol. 6), Esslingen City Archives 1982.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 129 , 335.
2. ↑ Suevia-Tübingen 1831-1931 . Volume 2: Members, Tübingen 1931, p. 104 (No. 334).