Richard Hildmann
Richard Hildmann (born February 6, 1882 in Bockenheim (now Frankfurt am Main ), Germany ; † October 4, 1952 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian politician of the Christian Social Party as well as mayor and honorary citizen of the state capital Salzburg.
Life
Hildmann was born on February 6, 1882 in the Frankfurt suburb of Bockenheim as the son of a civil servant family. In 1901 his father Peter Hildmann was appointed director of the Graz Tramway Company , whereupon the family moved to Austria that same year. Richard attended the technical university in the Styrian capital and graduated from it in 1908 with an engineering diploma .
After graduating from university , he joined the state service of the Salzburg state government as a construction intern in 1908 , although his civil servant career was interrupted by the First World War. After his reinstatement in 1918, Hildmann began to get involved politically in the Christian Social Party at the time. This summoned the young German, who was considered to be very open-minded in the spirit of the times, to the Salzburg municipal council on July 13, 1919 . After just three weeks, he was appointed Vice Mayor of Salzburg. From 1919 to 1930, Hildmann, who was now responsible for the construction industry , was responsible for the restoration of the streets damaged by war damage, the establishment of new and modern street lighting, the automization of the fire brigade , the breakthrough of Jahnstraße, the expansion of the gas works, the construction of the Strubklamm power plant , the expansion of the trade school building and the construction of the airfield.
In 1930 Hildmann was appointed head of the state government's mechanical engineering department, whereupon he renounced the council mandate and resigned from the office of vice mayor. After Austria's transformation into a corporate state , Richard Hildmann was appointed mayor in 1935 - on leave of absence from the head of the department - and remained in this position for the city until 1938. After the German troops marched in in March 1938, he was deposed as mayor, but on May 8, 1945, at the request of the US occupiers, he resumed his office as mayor of the city of Salzburg. In occupied and bombed-out Salzburg in the post-war period, his endeavor was to provide the city's population with the best possible means of life, electricity and water. On February 8, 1946 at his command of the German artist Fritz Klimsch expelled with his family out of the city because they Reich German were. In 1945 Hildmann was appointed regional building director and held this position until his retirement in 1949.
In the first democratic elections after the Second World War , Anton Neumayr from the SPÖ emerged victorious in the battle for mayor's office in 1946 , Hildmann again served as vice mayor until his death. On July 29, 1946 he received honorary citizenship of the city of Salzburg. On February 6, 1952, on his 70th birthday, the local council declared the square on the Riedenburg side of the Neutor - not far from his residence at Neutorstrasse 11 - to be "Richard-Hildmann-Platz" . The square is bounded by Bucklreutstraße, Ernst-Sompek-Straße, Neutorstraße and Reichenhaller Straße.
Richard Hildmann died on October 4, 1952 as the still incumbent Vice-Mayor and was buried at St. Peter's Cemetery with great interest from the people of Salzburg .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Ostendorff.de: Biography Fritz Klimsch ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed August 21, 2011
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| SURNAME | Hildmann, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Politician and Mayor of the City of Salzburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt-Bockenheim , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th October 1952 |
| Place of death | Salzburg , Austria |