Otto Wippermann

Otto Hermann Ludwig Wippermann (born April 14, 1861 in Stadthagen , Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe , † June 1, 1918 in Berlin-Dahlem ) was a German administrative lawyer . From 1893 to 1894 he was an alderman of the city of Solingen , from 1894 to 1903 he served as mayor and from 1903 as lord mayor of the city of Oberhausen .

Life

Wippermann attended the Adolfinum grammar school in Bückeburg until 1871 . He then studied law until 1874 at the universities of Marburg, Berlin and Heidelberg with a focus on constitutional law . On July 26, 1884, he passed the first state examination in law. On August 14th of the same year he was sworn in as a trainee lawyer at the Marburg district court . After being appointed government trainee on October 28, 1887, he began his training with the Royal Government of Trier on November 1, with further positions in the Saarbrücken District Office , in the Trier City Administration and with the Royal Government of Hildesheim . After he had passed the great state examination on November 8, 1890, he was appointed government assessor on November 23, 1890. He was then given leave to work at the Union iron and steel works in Dortmund . On July 1, 1891, he entered the service of the Royal Government of Aachen . From there he was given leave of absence from October 1, 1892 to work as a legal advisor in the company Basse & Selve in Altena . On July 24, 1893, Wippermann became an alderman for the city of Solingen . On August 15, 1894, the city council of Oberhausen elected him their mayor . The inauguration followed on October 24, 1894. The title of Lord Mayor was awarded to him on September 6, 1903, after Oberhausen was elevated to a district-free city on April 1, 1901 and left the district of Mülheim an der Ruhr . For health reasons, Wippermann was retired on May 1, 1906. In the same year he received the Red Eagle Order, fourth class.

In 1893 Wippermann married Maria Soldan, the daughter of the domain tenant Eduard Soldan from Großseelheim near Marburg and his wife Sophie Wilhelmine Ottilie, née Kranz.

As the successor to Friedrich Haumann in the role of mayor of Oberhausen, Wippermann is the main administrative official who was able to meet industrialists in his city, such as Gottfried Ziegler from Gutehoffnungshütte , on an equal footing. The achievements that were accomplished during his term of office include the construction of technical infrastructures (e.g. the construction of the first tramway under municipal ownership in the German Reich), the settlement of companies ( e.g. Babcock Borsig ) and state authorities as well as representative urban development as a prerequisite for a later metropolitan development. Wippermann opened up a new source of finance for the urban projects of his administration by succeeding in 1894 in convincing city ​​councilors to introduce a real estate transfer tax on the basis of Miquel's tax reform .

literature

• Magnus Dellwig: The establishment of a community and the development of the industrial city of Oberhausen. From the initiator of the railway in 1846 to the expansion as an industrial city . Volume 2: Oberhausen in the industrial age . In: Magnus Dellwig, Peter Langer (Ed.): Oberhausen. A city history in the Ruhr area . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-402-12957-9 , p. 136 ff.

Web links

• Directory of persons "Wi" in the portal territorial.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Magnus Dellwig, p. 205