Paul Mitzlaff

Paul Mitzlaff (born December 22, 1870 in Bütow , Pomerania ; † January 7, 1944 in Berlin ) was a German local politician and Lord Mayor of Bromberg (1910-1919). In this function he was a member of the Prussian mansion from 1913 to 1919 .

Life

family

Mitzlaff came from a Danzig patrician family. He was the son of Danzig councilor August Mitzlaff and his wife Maria geb. Henning. He was married to Marie Kunau, with whom he had four daughters.

Career

From 1880 to 1889 he attended high school in Gdansk, where he passed the Abitur. He studied law at the universities of Munich, Leipzig and Berlin. After graduating, he worked as a judicial clerk (1893) and court assistant (1897).

From 1897 he worked in the Gdansk city administration in the finance department, from 1903 as city treasurer. He was also the city's representative in the Provincial Association of the Province of West Prussia .

In April 1910, the city council of Bydgoszcz elected Mitzlaff to succeed Mayor Alfred Knobloch , an office he took up on August 15 of the same year. On August 27, 1913, he received the Lord Mayor's gold chain.

In the first years of his tenure, Mitzlaff was able to inaugurate a number of municipal and educational institutions such as an arts and crafts school and a boys' school. Later he had to lead his city through the war-related shortage economy. The city's food supply suffered badly.

Mitzlaff resigned from his position as Lord Mayor on September 23, 1919 and left Bromberg to settle in Berlin as a lawyer. At the same time he worked from 1919 to 1926 as managing director of the Prussian and German Association of Cities .

Awards

• Red Eagle Order IV Class, 1910
• Iron Cross (1914) 2nd class, 1917
• Medal of the Red Cross Third Class.

literature

• Błażejewski Stanisław, Kutta Janusz, Romaniuk Marek: Bydgoski Słownik Biograficzny. Tom V. Bydgoszcz 1998 , pp. 79-81 (Polish).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adolf Grimme : Letters , edited by Dieter Sauberzweig, p. 298.