Paul Lücker

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Paul Lücker as a student in Göttingen in 1866

Paul Lücker (born October 17, 1847 in Preußisch Oldendorf ; † January 30, 1931 in Preußisch Oldendorf) was a German doctor, local politician and city councilor in Preußisch Oldendorf.

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Paul Lücker was born in Preußisch Oldendorf in 1847 as the son of the medical councilor Julius Lücker, attended the Oldendorf parish school and a private school, the grammar school in Gütersloh and the boarding school in the monastery of Our Lady in Magdeburg , where he passed his Abitur in 1866. He then went to Tübingen to study medicine, but shortly afterwards switched to the Georg-August University in Göttingen due to the German War ; In 1868 he went to the University of Berlin after passing the Physikum (with Professors Wöhler , Meissner , Haule and Weber) . In Göttingen, he joined in 1866 in the connection and subsequent fraternity Holzminda one, in Berlin, he received his doctorate on 30 April 1870. The exam he passed on shortly thereafter.

He served his military service in 1870/71 in the Franco-German War as a one-year voluntary doctor in Münster at the 5th field hospital of the VII Army Corps and after the end of the war in Minden .

He then worked as his father's assistant until January 1873, before taking on a newly established miners' position at the Courl colliery near Dortmund . From October 1873 he practiced as a doctor in Bad Essen .

After his father's death on May 4, 1877, he took over his doctor's practice in Preussisch Oldendorf. Paul Lücker was active in many associations in Preußisch Oldendorf. In 1876 he became chairman of the warrior club, from 1878 to 1883 he was president of the local rifle club, from 1880 he was co-founder and chairman of the animal protection club, from 1883 to 1904 he directed the choral society and the mixed choir, he was a member of the volunteer fire brigade and in 1897 again chairman of the warrior club. In 1901 he was appointed to the district executive committee of the warrior association. He received many awards for his honorary positions. Among other things, he campaigned for the establishment of a higher city school in 1911 and had been a city councilor in Preussisch Oldendorf since 1888. In 1908 he became an official member of the Prussian Oldendorf Office. On October 10, 1910, he was elected deputy mayor. Politically he was liberal and in 1909 became the official chairman of the Liberal Electoral Association and, from 1913, chairman of the newly founded National Liberal Association for Prussian Oldendorf. After the sudden death of Mayor Wilhelm Kleffman, he was elected Mayor on April 26, 1917. He held this office until September 1919 and remained a member of the representative office and official representative until 1929. He was also a member of the Medical Association and the Court of Honor of the Province of Westphalia and Honorary Chairman of the Lübbecke District Medical Association and the Minden-Lippe Scientific and Medical Association. In 1923 he handed over his medical practice to his son Paul Lücker junior. He died in his homeland in 1931.

Honors

  • In 1898 he received the Zentenar Medal .
  • In 1902 he was appointed medical councilor by Kaiser Wilhelm II .
  • In 1909 he was awarded the Red Eagle Order IV class.
  • In 1913 he was appointed secret medical councilor by Kaiser Wilhelm II.
  • In 1920 he became an honorary citizen of Preußisch Oldendorf.

Publications

  • About the imperfect foot birth. Berlin, 1870, dissertation.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , p. 410.
  • B. Lundius (Ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity Holzminda Göttingen , Pinneberg. 29th year 1927, pp. 55-58 and 34th year 1932, pp. 1-4.
  • Dieter Besserer: From country doctor to secret medical council. Dr. Paul Lücker - physician and local politician in Preussisch Oldendorf. In: Der Minden-Ravenberger 2007. The yearbook in East Westphalia. 79th year, Bielefeld, 2006, pp. 51-55.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Ebel : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1837-1900. Hildesheim 1974. (No. 50881, matriculated on October 25, 1866)
  2. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 313.
personal data
SURNAME Lücker, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Prussian Oldendorf
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1931
Place of death Prussian Oldendorf