Paul Werner (Mayor)

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Paul Werner

Paul Ernst Friedrich Werner (born October 19, 1848 in Zeitz ; † June 10, 1927 in Cottbus ) was a German lawyer , judge and municipal administrative officer . He was the first mayor of Hamm and Cottbus.

Life

Paul Werner attended grammar school in Frankfurt (Oder) and studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich . In 1870 he took part in the Franco-German War as a war volunteer . From 1872 to 1878 he was district judge in Kirchhain (Lausitz), from 1878 to 1880 2nd mayor of Bromberg . On July 1, 1881, he took over the position of 1st mayor of Hamm. From 1887 he was also a national liberal member of the Westphalian provincial parliament . He exercised both functions until he became first mayor of Cottbus on May 3, 1892. In 1894 he was appointed mayor there. In this office he was re-elected in 1904 and held it until 1914, although the regular twelve-year term would not have ended until 1916.

He was married to Franziska born in 1877 . Wiokerath . Werner lived in the villa at Wernerstraße 55, built by the builder and later city councilor Ewald Schulz . In Cottbus, he became a member of the Masonic lodge Zum Brunnen in the desert .

Services

Werner campaigned for the beautification of the industrial and linen weaving town of Cottbus. In 1898, on the initiative of the Lord Mayor and the Beautification Association, the first Cottbus park, the Goethepark, was built on the humid lowlands of the Mühleninsel. On the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz (today: Brandenburger Platz), green spaces with potted plants such as banana trees , agaves and summer flowers were created at the behest of Paul Werner . From 1897 to 1899 the sewer system and the central water supply were completed. In 1903, after the commissioning of the power station on Mühleninsel to generate electricity, the Cottbus tram was opened in addition to electrical street lighting . The network quickly grew into several lines with a color system.

On October 1, 1908, the city ​​theater was opened on Schillerplatz. It is the only completely preserved Art Nouveau theater in Germany and was built on Werner's initiative according to plans by Bernhard Sehring , who had established himself as a theater architect ten years earlier with the Berlin Theater des Westens .

Werner supported the Cottbus physician Carl Thiem's plans to build a city polyclinic . On April 1, 1914, the hospital was opened as the United Städtische und Thiemsche Heilanstalt . To date it has been expanded and rebuilt several times and is now the largest clinic in the state of Brandenburg and one of the largest hospitals in Germany. In the portal of the old building, a stone slab set into the wall reminds of Carl Thiem, Paul Werner and the plans to build this hospital.

On May 16, 1906, the city's central clock system was put into operation. Werner also contributed to the territorial reorganization of Cottbus. On July 1, 1904, the rural community of Sandow and the manor district of Brunschwig from the rural district of Cottbus were incorporated into the urban community and the urban district of Cottbus.

Appreciation

Werner was made an honorary citizen of the city in 1914 . The Grünstraße and a footbridge over the Spree were named after him. On March 2nd, 1999 the Cottbus 5th Comprehensive School was renamed Paul Werner Comprehensive School in memory of this important Cottbus Lord Mayor. Since 2005, due to the reform of the comprehensive and secondary school system in the state of Brandenburg, the school has been called the Paul Werner Oberschule . The street between Berliner Strasse and Wilhelm-Külz-Strasse, past the State Theater, was also named after him (Wernerstrasse).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irmgard Ackermann, Marcus Cante, Antje Mues: City of Cottbus, part 1: Old town, Mühleninsel, Neustadt and Ostrow, inner Spremberger suburb, “city promenade”, western expansion of the city, historical Brunschwig. (= Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany , Monuments in Brandenburg , Volume 2.1.) Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2001, p. 364.
  2. ↑ The chronology of the St. Johannis Lodge "To the fountain in the desert" in Cottbus (PDF file)
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werner, Paul Ernst Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, mayor of Hamm and Cottbus
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Time
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1927
Place of death cottbus