Otto Bauer (politician, 1850)

Paul Eduin Otto Bauer around 1899

Paul Eduin Otto Bauer (born August 18, 1850 in Zwickau , † October 23, 1916 in Radeberg ) was a German politician and mayor of several cities.

Life

Otto Bauer was the son of the Zwickau "high school senior teacher of the exact sciences" and pastor Aurel Reinhard Eduin Bauer and his first wife Amalie Auguste nee. Heider. From 1873 Otto Bauer was a trainee lawyer at the Leipzig City Council . He was married to Ida Mathilde geb. Börner from Radeberg. The couple had a daughter. Otto Bauer died of pneumonia on October 23, 1916 in the Radeberg City Hospital.

Act

After his traineeship in Leipzig, Bauer went to Burgstädt in 1876 and took over the office of mayor there , which he held for 18 years until 1893. In the same year he moved to Ronneburg and took over the mayor's office there.

From Ronneburg, Bauer moved to Radeberg on October 2, 1895, to take over the office of mayor from August Max Rumpelt, who was retiring for reasons of age and who has been in office since 1873. The solemn commitment and briefing of Bauer took place on October 3, 1895 by the "Royal Lord District Chief of Dresden".

Bauer held the mayor's office until his death on October 23, 1916, shortly before his retirement.

Merits

Bauer's tenure in Radeberg was during the boom in Radeberg's further development into an important industrial city in the Kingdom of Saxony at the end of the 19th / beginning of the 20th century, whose population had increased from 10,300 (1896) to around 14,500 (1916). Bauer's tight and correct administration and his creativity had an impact on all areas of urban development . Under his leadership, the glass industry in particular continued to develop as the main branch of industry in Radeberg, and as a result, residential construction and the new boys 'school in 1898 (today Pestalozzi School) and in 1905 the expansion of the girls' school (today Stadtmitte primary school). The new construction of the “Realschule with Progymnasium” in 1912 ( Humboldt-Gymnasium Radeberg ) was also significant for the greater Radeberg area as a catchment area. As a result of this development of Radeberg into a center of the workforce, it was necessary to build a new municipal hospital , which was handed over in 1906. During Bauer's tenure, the first Radeberger gym with an attached sports field for school, workers and club sports was built. The new Imperial Post Office was inaugurated in 1896. Road construction and modernization, e.g. B. by sluicing and water pipe construction including sewerage , as well as the creation of footpaths, increased the attractiveness of Radeberg as a place to live and work in the greater area. He also pushed the construction of the Hospital Bridge in 1899 as one of the most important traffic arteries over the Große Röder .

Bauer initiated the construction of the Royal Fireworks Laboratory in Radeberg when the city council offered the site of the former artillery training area immediately south of the Görlitz – Dresden railway line , including the purchased land, to the Dresden military engineer in May 1915 for purchase by the Reich Finance Administration in order to build the new factory there erect. Road construction, which is now well advanced, and the guaranteed direct rail connection to the planned in-house rail network led to the construction of this large-scale operation, in which up to 1,500 construction workers were later employed at times up to 5,000 people. As a result of this construction, urban housing development also developed, and the new form of cooperative housing in the south of Radeberg was the cornerstone for the development of the "Radeberger Süd-Vorstadt" as a residential location.

Bauer also worked nationwide to upgrade Radeberg as an industrial location. Together with the Radeberg representative in the Royal Saxon state parliament , the businessman Georg Knobloch, and the city council, Bauer tried for several years and by means of a petition submitted to the state parliament as early as 1897 to build a new railway line from Arnsdorf via Radeberg and Radeburg to Großenhain ( so-called north-east railway for the technical development of the Rödertal with 63 communities and about 50,000 inhabitants) to plan and classify. With the beginning of the First World War this topic was finished. In place of the old station building that went into operation in November 1845 as part of the new construction of the railway line, the much larger new station building was inaugurated on April 1, 1898 and is still in operation today.

Honors

For the entirety of his services as mayor of three cities and for the good of Saxony, Otto Bauer is from the Saxon King Friedrich August III. before 1910 the Albrechts-Order was awarded in the class "Knight I. Class of the Albrechts-Order".

Due to the great contribution of Bauer to urban development, he was elected by the city council in 1900 as "mayor for life".

Around 1930 the northern part of the former Langen Strasse in Radeberg was renamed Otto-Bauer-Strasse .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Address book from Zwickau 1850. SLUB Dresden
2. ^ Stadtarchiv Radeberg: Otto Bauer's death entry from October 24, 1916
3. ↑ Administrative authority Dresden, community Radeberg: death register no. 210/1916
4. ^ Georg Banda: Our Radeberger street names - Otto-Bauer-Strasse . In: Radeberger Kulturleben , July 1960. Ed. Rat der Stadt Radeberg.
5. ^ The Dresden Feldzeugmeisterei in the main state archive in Dresden. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 15, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ↑ Working group company history ROBOTRON Radeberg
7. ↑ Information about the negotiations of the Ordinary Parliament in the Kingdom of Saxony / 2nd Chamber (magazine volume 1911 / 12.3)
8. ^ Address book Radeberg 1914 online resource
9. ↑ Files 879 and 1451A Radeberg City Archives