Robert Leinert

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Robert Leinert, 1919

Robert Leinert (* 16th December 1873 in Striesen in Dresden , † 10. February 1940 in Hannover ) was a German Social Democratic politician and after the First World War , the first SPD - mayor of Hanover (1918-1924).

Life

Leinert as a member of the German peace delegation in Versailles

Robert Leinert was born the son of a master potter. He grew up in a poor house and attended elementary school before moving to a painter's apprenticeship as a journeyman to wanderings came to Hanover, where he from 1900 to 1902 as a worker secretary of the SPD from 1903 to 1905 as editor of the local Social Democratic newspaper will of the people and finally from 1906 worked as secretary of the SPD for the Prussian province of Hanover until 1918 .

In June 1908 Leinert was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives for the first time , to which he belonged until November 1918. During the November Revolution he was chairman of the Hanoverian workers 'and soldiers' council , which he knew how to bring to the moderate politics of the majority social democracy. On November 13, 1918, he was unanimously elected by the members of the magistrate and the mayor as the successor of the escaped city director Heinrich Tramm as head of the city with the title of mayor; He was thus the first social democratic mayor of a major Prussian city at all. In this role he was viewed with great distrust and even rejection by the middle-class population of the city.

In December 1918, Leinert was elected one of the three chairmen of the 1st Reichsrätekongress in Berlin . This also elected him to the 27-member Central Council of the German Socialist Republic , in which he was one of the chairmen alongside Max Cohen and Hermann Müller . He pushed for the quickest possible election of a German National Assembly and thus for the councils to be disempowered. At the end of January 1919 he was elected a member of the Prussian Constituent Assembly, which elected him President at its constituent meeting in March 1919. As such, he was sent by his party as a member of the German peace delegation to the Paris Peace Conference .

From 1921, Leinert was also a member of the Prussian state parliament , of which he was president until 1924. It was precisely because of this fact that he was "exposed to violent attacks by his political opponents, who accused him, among other things, of spending most of his time in Berlin and neglecting his duties in the town hall." So he was finally overthrown in Hanover in 1924 by the bourgeois opposition in the mayor council around Heinrich Tramm as Lord Mayor. By resolution of the Citizens' Board of Directors on September 5, 1924, he was retired on October 1, 1924 and finally on January 1, 1925 with recourse to the staff reduction ordinance. He was succeeded by Arthur Quantity . He was a member of the Prussian state parliament until 1933. In addition, Leinert represented the SPD from September 1919 to 1920 for the electoral district of Hanover City and from 1921 to 1925 for the electoral district of Goslar-Zellerfeld in the Hanoverian provincial parliament . Later he was also a member of the provincial committee.

In 1933, after the National Socialists came to power, his pension was withdrawn and he was also imprisoned for some time. Robert Leinert died on February 10, 1940 in Hanover at the age of 67. His grave is in the Stöcken city cemetery in Hanover.

Honors

Sign on the Leinertbrücke in Hanover

In 1963 a connection between Calenberger Neustadt and the districts of Linden-Mitte and Linden-Nord , the Leinertbrücke over the Ihme in the course of the Spinnereistraße , was named after Robert Leinert. In 2008, the later mayor Thomas Hermann complained that many people could hardly "[...] remember the first democratic mayor of Hanover ". He therefore suggested explanatory "[...] legend signs or information boards" on the Leinert Bridge.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Robert Leinert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ S. Miller, p. 142
  2. ↑ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) And a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 397.
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Leinertbrücke , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 157
  4. ↑ NN : Legend signs for the Robert-Leinert-Brücke , with a quote from Mayor Thomas Hermann on the website of the SPD - Council group Hanover from November 18, 2008, last accessed on October 2, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Leinert, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Striesen near Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1940
Place of death Hanover