Theodor Goerlitz
Theodor Hans Walter Goerlitz (born May 15, 1885 in Breslau ; † May 4, 1949 in Magdeburg ) was a German local politician ( DDP ) and historian. For many years he was Lord Mayor of the City of Oldenburg .
Life
Goerlitz was the son of the Breslau merchant Theodor Goerlitz and his wife Clara nee. Mentzel. He attended the Johannesgymnasium and studied law at the University of Breslau from 1903 to 1907 . There he received his doctorate in 1907 and soon began teaching business and administration. From 1912 he worked for the city administration of Breslau and in 1916 became city councilor and financial advisor in Thorn . In 1918 he moved to Altona , where he became a senator. On March 22, 1921, he was elected Lord Mayor of Oldenburg with a narrow majority as a candidate for the German Democratic Party and was introduced to his office on June 7. With the incorporation of the localities Easterburg (1922) and Eversten (1924), he removed the spatial constriction of the city, which had hindered industrialization so far. The focus of his work was on the establishment of industry and economic development (meat factory, central cattle market) and the expansion of the school system and cultural institutions. On November 8, 1928, the City Council confirmed him for another eight years in his office. After the government takeover of the National Socialists in Oldenburg Goerlitz was voted out on 2 November 1932, added the following year to retire. In January 1931, had NSDAP tried in the City Council, Goerlitz with the votes of the DNVP , the economy Party and the Agrarian League to put in active status, but was failed because of the center belonging to Interior Minister Franz Driver had refused the necessary approval.
Goerlitz moved back to his native city of Breslau in 1933, where he received a teaching position and in 1939 became honorary professor. In 1941 Goerlitz took over the management of the Institute for Research into Magdeburg City Law in Magdeburg , which he exercised until 1945. He was then appointed by the Soviet occupation authorities as a magistrate in Magdeburg before he was appointed honorary professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg in 1947 , which he could no longer accept due to a stroke. In 2004 a bust was erected in his honor in front of the town hall in Oldenburg.
Dr.-Theodor-Goerlitz-Straße was named after him in the Oldenburg development area on Brookweg.
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Theodor Goerlitz presented numerous legal publications, in particular for the dissemination of city law . As early as 1934 he published a study on the Roland pictures , which was followed in 1938 by a study on the families of Silesian city rights . His scientific legacy is partly in the state archive of Saxony-Anhalt and partly in the document collection of the Herder Institute in Marburg .
literature
- Franz Klein-Bruckschwaiger: Goerlitz, Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 530 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 242-244.
- Peter Wörster : "This quiet and industrious Wroclaw researcher". Theodor Goerlitz (1885-1949). Building block for a future biography. In: Journal for East Central Europe Research , 56th year 2007, issue 2, pp. 237–250.
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Web links
- Literature by and about Theodor Goerlitz in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goerlitz, Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goerlitz, Theodor Hans Walter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician and historian, Lord Mayor of Oldenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1949 |
| Place of death | Magdeburg |