Richard Boettger

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Richard Böttger (born June 10, 1873 in Eisleben , † August 31, 1957 in Mannheim ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Böttger was born the son of a shoemaker. He attended the Second Citizens' School in Eisleben and completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and glazier. Then he went on a journey through central and northern Germany. After three years in the military, he founded a local group of the glaziers and woodworkers' union in Zeitz in 1895, which he also chaired, and became a member of the SPD. He then went hiking again and settled in Mannheim, where he worked at Bopp & Reuther, now VAG Armaturen , as a carpenter and glazier journeyman and continued his education at the commercial college . From 1898 to 1904 he was chairman of the Mannheimer Glaserverband and then until 1919 head of the workers' secretariat of the Free Trade Union Cartel.

In 1902 Böttger became a member of the Mannheim SPD executive committee and from 1907 to 1919 he was a city ​​councilor , from 1913 also chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In the same year he became a member of the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly , of which he was a member until 1918. In 1919 he became head of the welfare department of the Mannheim city administration, initially as a salaried city councilor from 1927 with the rank of third mayor . In 1933 the National Socialists took him into “ protective custody ”. He only found work again during the Second World War and headed the branch of a timber company in Stuttgart.

Böttger's grave in Mannheim

After the end of the war, the Americans appointed Josef Braun as Lord Mayor, who in the first week of April 1945 reappointed the almost 72-year-old Böttger as welfare officer. A year later he became second mayor and in 1948 he retired. We owe him in particular the Mannheim emergency community, the garden city settlement , the founding of the Freie Volksbühne and the theater community. Böttger was married twice (1. Johanna Philippi 1879–1901, 2. Auguste Leo 1881–1971) and had three children. The barrel-vaulted grave slab on the main cemetery in Mannheim is made of shell limestone and was designed by P. Geißler.

Honors

The city of Mannheim granted Böttger honorary citizenship in 1957 and named an urban retirement home after him after his death.

literature

  • Wolfgang Brach: The Mannheim City Council 1945–1984. Biographical manual. The Lord Mayors, Mayors and honorary members of the Mannheim City Council. Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt, Mannheim 1984, ISBN 3-87804-162-4 .
  • Susanne Vogt: Richard Böttger . In: Ulrich Nieß (ed.): The highest distinction in the city: 42 Mannheim honorary citizens in portrait . Mannheim 2002, ISBN 3-926260-55-6

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W. Münkel: Die Friedhöfe in Mannheim (SVA, 1992) p. 154

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personal data
SURNAME Böttger, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisleben
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1957
Place of death Mannheim