Otto Back

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Otto Back (1911)

Otto Back (born October 30, 1834 in Kirchberg (Hunsrück) , † January 5, 1917 in Strasbourg ) was a German administrative lawyer in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . Re-elected twice as mayor of Strasbourg, he became one of the most important city leaders in 21 years in office.

Life

Otto Back was one of nine children of the Hunsrück pastor Friedrich Back and his wife Louisa born. Röchling . He attended grammar school in Koblenz until he graduated from high school. Then he enrolled on November 1, 1854 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen for Protestant theology . He became a member of the Onoldia Corps . He was reciprocated on July 19, 1855. In the following winter semester, he switched to law in Erlangen . As an inactive he studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . At Rhenania Bonn he became a corps bow bearer in 1857 . After the exams he entered the internal administration of the Kingdom of Prussia . On January 14, 1864, he married Augusta born in Koblenz . Timme , the daughter of the district surgeon Karl Friedrich Timme. In the same year he became first alderman of the city of Barmen . He was appointed provisional in 1867 and finally appointed district administrator in the Simmern district in 1868 . In 1870 he married Luise Huesgen , the daughter of the businessman Johann Wilhelm Huesgen, in Traben-Trarbach .

In the Franco-Prussian War he was sub-prefect of the arrondissement of Metz and Thionville . At the same time he served as a lieutenant in the Prussian army . In 1872 he was transferred to Strasbourg as the Imperial Police Director. From 1873 to 1880 he was the mayoral administrator of the city of Strasbourg. In 1880 he became imperial district president in the Unterelsaß district . He had been the mayor of Strasbourg since the autumn of 1886 and remained in this office until 1907. In 1887 he was briefly undersecretary of state for finances in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . His services to his second hometown Strasbourg were honored during his lifetime. Wilhelm II donated a gold chain of honor for the Strasbourg mayor. The director of the Municipal School of Applied Arts Anton Seder designed this chain of mayors as well as an honorary gift from the citizens of Strasbourg for Otto Back's 70th birthday, and on behalf of the municipal officials, the metalworking department of the School of Applied Arts made another gift with the portrait of the jubilee. Like Seder, Back was involved in society for the preservation of the historical monuments of Alsace . Back's understanding of the Alsatian character of the inhabitants was particularly appreciated. In 1910 Otto Back became a curator at the University of Strasbourg . Mayor Back earned lasting merits in promoting the economic upturn in Strasbourg through municipal construction measures, such as the construction of a water pipe and the first trams, and in the expansion of the city with its Rhine port. He turned down higher and highest positions in the empire, including the successor to Johannes von Miquel in Frankfurt am Main.

Back sat for many years in the senior consistory of the Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine and in the presbytery of the Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune protestant .

Appointed in 1911 by Kaiser Wilhelm to the First Chamber of the Landtag of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , he was its President until 1917. After his death, Johannes Hoeffel followed him .

Awards

literature

  • Heinrich Heffter:  Back, Karl August Albert Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 504 ( digitized version ).
  • Government and Parliament of Alsace-Lorraine 1911–1916. Biographical-statistical manual. Mühlhausen 1911, p. 145.
  • Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 337-338 .
  • Tanja Baensch: "Un petit Berlin"? : the re-establishment of the Strasbourg collection of paintings by Wilhelm Bode in a contemporary context. A contribution to museum politics in the German Empire. V & R unipress, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89971-380-0 , pp. 104-105. (on-line)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Konversationslexikon 6th edition, Leipzig / Vienna 1907 p. 133.
  2. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 23 , 409; 12 , 495
  3. ↑ District of Simmern (territorial.de)
  4. ↑ Back's handwritten curriculum vitae, additions according to his own communication from February 1887; Onoldia corps archive, Heinrich Stramer collection 1888
  5. ^ The applied arts in Alsace-Lorraine, Vol. 4 1903–1904, p. 130 Fig. Digitized
  6. ^ The applied arts in Alsace-Lorraine, Vol. 6 1905–1906, p. 97 Fig. Digitized
  7. ^ The applied arts in Alsace-Lorraine, Vol. 6 1905–1906, p. 109 Fig. Digitized
  8. ↑ See the Alpine Directory of Members of the Society for the Preservation of Historical Monuments of Alsace in the online archive, consulted on March 4, 2013
  9. ^ Heinrich Heffter:  Back, Karl August Albert Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 504 ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ Hermann Schreiber: Strasbourg between the times, between the peoples , pp. 261, 267, 268f. Gernsbach 2006 ISBN 3-938047-13-5
  11. ↑ a b Dr. hc Otto Back . Onolden-Zeitung, 1st year, July 1919, Issue 2, pp. 6-9.
  12. ↑ Acta Borussica Volume 8 / II (1890–1900), p. 486 (PDF file; 2.19 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Back, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Back, Karl August Albert Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mayor, district administrator and member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchberg (Hunsrück)
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1917
Place of death Strasbourg