Oskar Ziethen

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Friedrich Wilhelm Oskar Ziethen (born August 7, 1858 in Stettin , † January 26, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German politician and first mayor of the city ​​of Lichtenberg .

Life

education

Tomb of the Ziethen family in Berlin-Lichtenberg

Oskar Ziethen was the son of the officer Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Ziethen (born May 26, 1799 in Wriezen , † January 26, 1872 in Stettin) and Agnes Mathilde Ziethen, nee. Gribel (also Griebel) (born July 18, 1820 in Stettin; † unknown). He had four brothers: two previously born - Friedrich Wilhelm Richard Ziethen (1846–1919), Friedrich Wilhelm Adalbert Ziethen (1847–1914) - and the twin brother Friedrich Wilhelm Alfred Ziethen (1858–1944) and sister Friederike Wilhelmine Margarete Ziethen (1849 -1919). The fourth brother, Friedrich Wilhelm, died in childhood before the age of eight. Oskar Ziethen attended various schools in Stettin and passed his Abitur in 1879/1880 at the municipal high school in Anklam . He began to study law in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1880/1881 at the Albert Ludwigs University , then he continued it until 1882 in Leipzig at the Alma Mater Lipsiensis and then went to the Berlin University in 1884, graduating from the university in Greifswald 1884–1885.

Employment

In 1885 Ziethen was a trainee lawyer at the district court in Szczecin. He then got a job with the Magistrate of Greifswald . From 1892 to 1896 he was mayor of Naugard in Pomerania .

In 1896, Oskar Ziethen was elected head of the district and community of Lichtenberg, a rural community near Berlin . In the following years he promoted, among other things, the expansion of the road and sewer network as well as the construction of schools and other public buildings in Lichtenberg. These include the construction of the town hall , the Gymnasium an der Parkaue (the seat of the Theater an der Parkaue since the late 1940s ), the district court and the church on Roedeliusplatz, and the Hubertus Municipal Hospital, which has been in his honor since January 20, 1933 carries the name Oskar Ziethen Hospital .

Due to the strong population growth and the improved infrastructure, Ziethen applied for town charter for the rural community of Lichtenberg in 1900, 1902 and 1904 . It was not until 1907 that the Brandenburg provincial parliament , the Potsdam district committee and Kaiser Wilhelm II approved his renewed proposal, and on January 31, 1908, Ziethen was elected first mayor of the city of Lichtenberg. From July 3, 1911, the day the foundation stone was laid for the municipal hospital, Ziethen was allowed to bear the title of Lord Mayor. In the elections of September 5, 1918, he was confirmed for a second term in this position. From 1908 to 1913 Ziethen was also a member of the Prussian state parliament in the free conservative parliamentary group. The incorporation of the rural community Boxhagen-Rummelsburg to Lichtenberg took place in 1912 under the decisive initiative of Ziethen.

After taking part in the First World War as an officer from 1914 to 1915 , Oskar Ziethen worked as one of the pioneers in the rural communities that were to be incorporated into Berlin when founding Greater Berlin in 1920. Ziethen retired in 1921, but remained a member of the Berlin city council and the district council of Lichtenberg until 1929. In 1924 he was honored as the one hundredth city elder in Berlin.

family

Oskar Ziethen was married to Maria Friederica (Frieda) Karolina Olga Lang (born October 7, 1865 in Freiburg im Breisgau; † May 30, 1940 in Leipzig). Together they had the children Friedrich Wilhelm Hellmuth Ziethen (* December 12, 1893 in Naugard; † May 7, 1961 in Lübeck) and Friederike Wilhelmine Dorothee (Dörte) (* December 4, 1902 in Berlin-Lichtenberg (in the town hall); † 13 September 1975 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen).

Oskar Ziethen died on January 26, 1932 in the Hubertus Hospital in Lichtenberg. He was buried in the municipal cemetery in Gotlindestraße, which was closed as a cemetery when Gotlindestraße was rebuilt in 1973. In this cemetery, which is listed as a garden monument in the Berlin list of monuments , the grave was given a place of honor right in the entrance area.

Orders, awards, posthumous honors

Others

In the local history museum Lichtenberg there is two original office furniture that was made for the Lichtenberg mayor: a dark oak desk and a four-door office cabinet made of the same material, decorated with plastic carvings and standing on lion's feet. (The oak desk can be seen in an exhibition. The oak cabinet can be viewed on request.)

literature

  • Michael Laschke: The Oskar Ziethen Hospital Berlin-Lichtenberg . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-935693-98-2
  • Jan Feustel : Walks in Lichtenberg . Haude and Spener, 1996, ISBN 3-7759-0409-3
  • Ernst Kaeber: Building blocks for the history of a cosmopolitan district . 1934
    (Extensive publication on Lichtenberg's history, in which the upswing to the new township under Oskar Ziethen is presented. The book was for many decades the most important treatise on the history of Lichtenberg.)
  • Ingrid Wagner: Lichtenberg's pioneer . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 4, 1998, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 69-70 ( luise-berlin.de ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Exhibition Oskar Ziethen - A Search for Traces , Lichtenberg Museum in the Stadthaus (September 18 to November 29, 2015).
  2. ↑ Michael Laschke: The Oskar Ziethen Hospital ... p. 29
  3. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  4. ↑ Information on the Mayor Ziethen Elementary School ("Buezie"). Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ziethen, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziethen, Friedrich Wilhelm Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, mayor of the city of Lichtenberg
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1932
Place of death Berlin