Richard Gertenbach (politician, 1857)

Richard Gertenbach (born February 16, 1857 in Solingen ; † May 10, 1929 in Bonn ) was mayor of the mayor's office and city of Lüttringhausen , now a district of Remscheid , from 1890 to 1925 .

Gertenbach was initially a volunteer and secretary at the mayor offices of Dorp and Solingen. In 1880 he became the first city secretary in Ürdingen. From 1883 he held the office of municipal cash controller and renters at the district communal treasury Schwelm. In 1890 he became mayor of the then independent city of Lüttringhausen, and he held the office for 35 years until 1925. In 1911 he was unanimously appointed mayor for life in the council. At the beginning of his term of office, Lüttringhausen was connected to the water supply of the neighboring municipality of Lennep on his initiative . For the construction of the Herbringhauser dam of the city of Barmen , which began in 1898 , Lüttringhausen provided 140 hectares of land via Gertenbach and in return secured unlimited access to the water dammed there. The building site required for the construction of the Tannenhof sanatorium (inauguration in 1896) and the royal prison in Lüttringhausen (inauguration in 1906) was also made available by the city of Lüttringhausen on his initiative. He exchanged the property acquired by the Catholic Church in 1902 on Kreuzbergstrasse for the construction of a new church with the church for another. A few years later - in 1908 - the city was able to inaugurate the newly built, representative new town hall on Kreuzbergstrasse . On April 20, 1925, he was made a fourth honorary citizen because of his services to the community. The Gertenbachstraße, named after Richard Gertenbach, leads west of the Lüttringhausen town hall into the Lüttringhausen old town.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Biographical data ( memento from December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) according to information on the website of the city of Remscheid, viewed on December 8, 2015
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Gertenbachstraße In: Reem Ouis: Well-known personalities give names to numerous streets: Who is who? In: 90 Years of Heimatbund , special publication of the Lüttringhauser Anzeiger , September 22, 2015, p. 31 (PDF; 7.1 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Gertenbach, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mayor of Lüttringhausen
DATE OF BIRTH	February 16, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Solingen
DATE OF DEATH	May 10, 1929
Place of death	Bonn

[rs-1] Biographical data ( memento from December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) according to information on the website of the city of Remscheid, viewed on December 8, 2015

[90jahre_heimatb-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Gertenbachstraße In: Reem Ouis: Well-known personalities give names to numerous streets: Who is who? In: 90 Years of Heimatbund , special publication of the Lüttringhauser Anzeiger , September 22, 2015, p. 31 (PDF; 7.1 MB)