Richard Wood

Richard Holz (born September 8, 1873 in Chemnitz , † February 14, 1945 in Dresden ; full name Richard Konrad Holz ) was a German administrative official and from 1919 to 1934 Lord Mayor of the city of Zwickau in Saxony .

Life

Richard Holz was born as the youngest of four children of the accident insurance director of the Chemnitz machine factory and foundry . He attended grammar school in Chemnitz and finished his schooling with the Abitur after the family moved to Eisenberg. He then studied law and administration in Berlin and Leipzig and graduated with success in 1898. During his studies he became a member of the Leipzig fraternity of Dresden in 1894 . First he worked from 1901 for two years as a trainee lawyer at the Royal District Court of Glauchau and then continued his career as a council trainee lawyer with the Dresden city council. From 1903 to 1905 he worked as a council assessor in Plauen . From 1905 he held the office of a city councilor in Gleiwitz and in 1908 went to Elberfeld (since 1931 Wuppertal), where he was subordinate to the police department and market affairs. As early as 1911, he was promoted to deputy mayor. During the First World War he took part in the campaign in the west and was wounded. As a result, he remained director of the XIX until 1916 . Royal Saxon Army Corps , where he received the Iron Cross II class and the Albrecht Order I class. In 1919 he successfully applied for the office of Lord Mayor of Zwickau to succeed Karl Keil .

Term of office

Although his term of office as Mayor of Zwickau fell during the period of inflation and the global economic crisis , he successfully got some projects off the ground. The Robert Schumann Society was founded under his leadership in 1920 . During his term of office in 1921 the negotiations for the renovation and new construction of the Zwickau main station also fell . He pushed through the construction of the gynecological clinic on the grounds of the Heinrich Braun Hospital . When in 1931 12,000 people in Zwickau were unemployed and the city coffers were empty, his initiative set up a mother's advice center and a home for babies and women who have recently given birth. He inaugurated the new building of the modern Pestalozzi School in 1929. In return, he accepted the temporary closure of the theater and museum. In order to get money from the citizens into the city coffers, he had the city issue promissory notes . After the end of his last electoral term in 1934, he gave up the office to Ewald Dost and moved to Dresden that same year.

The former Otto-Nuschke- Strasse in Zwickau-Marienthal has had his name since 1993 .

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 389-390.
• Frank Dörfelt: "Richard-Holz-Straße". How Zwickau Streets got their names. (Episode 262) In: Wochenspiegel of February 5, 2011, p. 4.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 209.