Robert Fürbringer

Robert Fürbringer (born December 3, 1806 in Gera ; † November 5, 1865 ibid) was mayor of Gera from 1849 to 1865 (with the title of mayor from 1852 ).

Career

Robert Fürbringer came from an old Gera family who had already provided two mayors of the city (Karl Gottlob Fürbringer from 1762 to 1782; Johann Christian Karl Fürbringer from 1795 to 1824). It was after a legal education city counsel entrusted by Gera and on 19 October 1849 after the resignation of Mayor Oscar Hennig with the provisional leadership of the office. On April 2, 1851, he was confirmed as mayor in a primary election of the urban population; This election was confirmed on December 10, 1851 by the sovereign government of the Principality of Reuss Younger Line , whose capital and residence Gera had been since 1848. On March 15, 1852, the government awarded him the title of Lord Mayor.

In 1852 the first city hospital was opened in Gera. On March 19, 1859, the city received its first railway connection with the route via Zeitz to Weißenfels and thus to the Thuringian Railway. In 1861 there was a fundamental redesign of the urban elementary and citizen schools, which culminated in the opening of the city school on the Nicolaiberg in 1864.

From November 10, 1851 to June 17, 1854 and from February 20, 1856 to September 6, 1860 he was a member of the Reuss younger line of the Landtag .

Robert Fürbringer also worked as a local chronicle and local history researcher and wrote, among other things, annals of the city of Gera from 1813 to 1845, a history of the rifle company in Gera and folklore work for the Vogtland antiquity research association . He was elected mayor for life in 1857, but retired in June 1865 due to illness and died only a few months later.

During his studies in 1826 he became a member of the Old Leipzig Burschenschaft . His son Leo Fürbringer , born in 1843, was temporarily mayor of Weimar and then from 1875 to 1913 (lord) mayor of Emden .

On May 3, 1945, a street previously named after Hans Maikowski in the Zwötzen district was given the name Robert-Fürbringer-Straße .

literature

• Günter Domkowsky: Lord Mayor of the City of Gera. Events - anecdotes - interesting facts. Publishing house Dr. Frank GmbH, Gera 2007, ISBN 978-3-934805-31-6 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume 1: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 88.
• Reyk Seela : Diets and regional representations in the Russian states 1848 / 67–1923. Biographical handbook (= Parliaments in Thuringia 1809–1952. Part 2). G. Fischer, Jena et al. 1996, ISBN 3-437-35046-3 , pp. 229-230.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Siegfried Mues: The street names of the city of Gera from A to Z. Their history and stories. Publishing house Dr. Frank, Gera 2006, ISBN 3-934805-23-X , p. 241.