Siegfried Körte

Siegfried Körte

Siegfried Körte (born November 23, 1861 in Berlin ; † March 4, 1919 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German administrative lawyer and municipal official. He became known as the Lord Mayor of Königsberg.

Life

Siegfried Körte was one of ten children of the doctor Friedrich Körte (1818–1914) and his wife Marie, b. Thaer (1832-1898). His siblings included the archaeologist Gustav Körte (1852-1917), the surgeon Werner Körte (1853-1937), the architect Friedrich Körte (1854-1934), the painter Martin Körte (1857-1929) and the classical philologist Alfred Körte (1866) -1946).

Körte began to study law at the University of Tübingen in 1880 . In 1881 he was reciprocated in the Corps Rhenania Tübingen . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . After he had passed the trainee examination in 1884 and the assessor examination in 1889 , he entered the internal administration of the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1891 he became district administrator in the Merseburg district . In the same year he married Auguste Heim (1866–1936). In 1893 he went to Breslau as a city ​​councilor , where he became city ​​treasurer .

In 1903, elected Lord Mayor of Königsberg, he solved the pressing problems of Königsberg. The population increased to 200,000 through incorporation. The water supply from the ponds of the Samland was completed. The town hall (Königsberg) suggested by him , the crematorium, the advanced training school, the Königsberg art academy , the castle pond promenades and the demolition of the Königsberg fortification buildings were pushed ahead. In 1906, against the resistance of the tax authorities, the city wall at the Wrangelturm was broken through. The greening of the fortress belt cost 29 million marks . The First World War with the invasion of the Imperial Russian Army , the refugees and the war economy brought new problems.

Körte was appointed to the Prussian mansion in 1903 ("OB faction"). He sat on the board of the German Association of Cities and in the Prussian General Synod . In 1917 he was one of the founders of the German Fatherland Party . He was a bitter opponent of Bolshevism . In 1918, he was illegally removed from his position as mayor by the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council . This tragic end broke his strength.

Honors

Körtes villa in Amalienau

• Order of the Red Eagle III. class
• Royal Crown Order (Prussia) 2nd class
• Order of Saint Stanislaus II class
• Dr. phil. hc from Albertus University Königsberg (1913)
• Körteallee (today ul. Kutuzova) in Amalienau
• Körte School (Königsberg) (1925)

Publications

• Philipp Zorn , Herbert von Berger (editor): Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Ed. By Siegfried Körte, Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell, among others, 3 volumes. R. Hobbing, Berlin 1914.
  • Contribution therein: self-administration

literature

• Georg Dirichlet : Siegfried Körte. A picture of life and character . In: Old Prussian Monthly Publication 57, 1920, pp. 145–169 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 129/223.
2. ^ Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg from A to Z - a city dictionary . Leer 1972, ISBN 3-7612-0092-7 , p. 80.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} 259. Siegfried Körte from Berlin , in: Die Tübinger Rhenanen , 1935.