Rudolf Hammer

This article deals with the politician Rudolf Hammer, for Lieutenant General see Rudolph Hammer .

Rudolf Hammer (born November 26, 1830 in Brandenburg (Havel) , Kingdom of Prussia ; † December 11, 1915 there ) was a German administrative lawyer and politician ( Liberal Association , NLP ). He was Lord Mayor of Brandenburg (Havel).

Life

Rudolf Hammer was the son of the cloth wholesaler and city ​​elder Gottlieb Hammer and his wife Karoline, nee. Blell , who came from one of the most famous Brandenburg families. After attending grammar school, he began to study law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1848 . He became active in the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg , which reciprocated him in 1850. As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . The clerkship , he completed only at the Brandenburg county court .

Contrary to his father's wish to be an independent private citizen, Hammer applied to the city administration of his hometown in 1864 and took up his position as syndic and city ​​councilor in May 1864 . In 1872 he was elected second mayor and in 1897 first mayor and in 1900 received the title of mayor . He was considered to be an “extremely peaceful, conciliatory and difficult to get into armor” man, for whom the interest of the hometown was the top priority of his work ( Otto Tschirch ). During his term of office, the horse-drawn tram was opened in 1897 , in 1898 the introduction of water disposal via a floodplain sewer system with pumping systems and sewage fields , in 1901 the inauguration of the power station and the new hospital and in 1904 the opening of the Brandenburg urban railway . The 500th anniversary of St. Catherine's Church , where he was baptized and confirmed and where he was a member of the parish council , was a special highlight for him. He saw the failure of the negotiations to incorporate the municipalities on the Cathedral Island during his term of office as a defeat (not until 1928/29). In 1905 he was retired.

He also saw it as a duty to promote the spiritual culture of his hometown. He was one of the founders of the Brandenburg Historical Association (Havel), of which he was chairman from 1872 to 1909, before increasing hearing loss caused him to retreat. He was also a member of the "Provincial Commission for Monument Preservation in the Province of Brandenburg".

Rudolf Hammer was also politically active beyond the city. So he was from 1881 to 1884 for the Liberal Association member of the German Reichstag for constituency 8 Brandenburg (Havel), Westhavelland , province of Brandenburg- administrative region of Potsdam . After the merger of the Liberal Association with the German Progressive Party , he turned in 1884 to the National Liberal Party , whose right wing he belonged to. In his role as Lord Mayor, he was a member of the Prussian mansion in the Prussian state parliament from 1897 to 1905 . He was also a member of the Provincial Parliament and the Municipal Parliament of the Province of Brandenburg .

Honors

• 1901 - Privy Councilor (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary in office)
• 1905 - Royal Crown Order (Prussia) III. Class (upon leaving the service)
• 1905 - honorary citizen of the city of Brandenburg (Havel)
• 1909 - Honorary Chairman of the Brandenburg Historical Association V.
• 1911 - Hammerstrasse in Brandenburg

literature

• Otto Tschirch : As a reminder. Images of life of deserving men. 4. Memories for the honorary chairman of the historical association, Privy Councilor Rudolf Hammer, former Lord Mayor of Brandenburg, † December 11, 1915. In: Historischer Verein Brandenburg (Havel), Otto Tschirch (ed.): Festschrift for the commemoration of the 50th anniversary. Brandenburg (Havel) 1918, pp. 284-290.
• Klaus Heß: The Lord Mayor of Brandenburg in the first third of the 20th century. In: Historischer Verein Brandenburg (Havel) e. V., 10th annual report 2000–2001, Brandenburg an der Havel 2001, pp. 46–58
• Klaus Heß: Rudolf Hammer - Lord Mayor. In: Marcus Alert / Wolfgang Kusior (Ed.): 45 well-known Brandenburgers . Neddermeyer, Berlin 2002, p. 35 f. ISBN 3-933254-34-5
• Klaus Hess: Rudolf Hammer. In: Udo Geiseler / Klaus Heß (eds.): Brandenburg an der Havel. Lexicon on city history. (Individual publications by the Brandenburg Historical Commission, XIII). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 142 f. ISBN 978-3-86732-001-6
• The members of Vandalia zu Heidelberg as of September 29, 1935. [Berlin 1936]

Web links

• Hammer, Johann Friedrich Christian Rudolf in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Johann Friedrich Christian Hammer . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 122 , 189.