Werner Wittgenstein

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Werner Wittgenstein (born July 31, 1882 in Magdeburg , † April 26, 1965 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer, writer and city director or mayor of Vegesack and, after 1945, of the Berlin-Zehlendorf district .

Life

Wittgenstein went to school and studied in Brunswick after graduation law . He obtained his doctorate in 1908 in Leipzig. jur. From 1906 to 1915 he worked as a trainee lawyer in Braunschweig .

From 1915 to 1933 he was city director and mayor of the then independent Bremen city of Vegesack. After 1919 he became a member of the liberal German Democratic Party , which in 1930 renamed itself the German State Party .

The Vegesacker boy with emptied pockets at the restaurant Zum Vegesacker Junge

After his election as city director in October 1914, he was introduced to office on June 10, 1915. His predecessor Dr. Fritz Graefenhan was the first Vegesacker of the First World War to fall at the front after only four months in office when Liège was conquered. It was a difficult position that Wittgenstein took on in the first year of the war, the main task of which was to ensure that the population was fed and he showed pragmatism when, after the revolution of 1918, he tried to restore peace and order together with the workers' council. He played a very large part in the creation of the city ​​garden . The city bought the one hectare garden of the tobacco merchant and Senator Carl Wilhelm August Fritze on the Weser as the nucleus of today's public city garden and the Weser promenade. In 1929, through his appeal in the Norddeutsche Volkszeitung , he achieved that this park was supported by the population and that a city ​​garden association was founded. Before that, on his initiative and after the demolition of old packing houses next to the ferry terminal, the Utkiek was built .

Wittgenstein had the idea of ​​the Vegesack boy as an ironic symbol for the town's place name. He bought the large painting of Vegesack and its shipyards, which Carl Justus Harmen Fedeler had painted around 1847 , from a Bremen hairdresser . The picture is hanging in the local office today. He was also committed to building the local history museum, which is now located in Schönebeck Palace . He also campaigned for the theater association founded in 1921 and the city theater at the Senate in order to receive regular grants. In the 1920s he wrote a few small novels and short stories on the side.

Wittgenstein was friends with the architect Ernst Becker-Sassenhof , who u. a. In 1924 the city theater and in 1927 the still preserved boathouse for the rowing club in Vegesack in the style of the new building . The construction of numerous one and two-family houses took place during his tenure. He himself lived at Kimmstrasse 12 near the city garden. He was a member of the Schlaraffen Association Castellum Visurgis Bremen-Vegesack.

On June 9, 1933, the NSDAP district leadership put him into early retirement due to the law to restore the civil service ; he was already on leave on March 29, because he and he had been ready to cooperate with the workers' council in February 1919 was a member of the Reichsbanner for a short time . He then moved to Berlin-Wannsee and survived the Nazi era in his profession as a lawyer.

After the war, on May 10, 1945, he was first appointed mayor of the Berlin-Zehlendorf district by the Soviet district commander and was later confirmed by the American city ​​commander . In 1946 his office was democratically legitimized through elections. He joined the CDU in 1945/46 . He held the office of district mayor until 1949 and was his deputy until July 1, 1952. He was also one of the co-founders of the Kulturbund in the Soviet zone of occupation .

Since 1910 he was with Clara Wittgenstein, geb. Schrader (born February 26, 1885, † January 30, 1980) married and had two children with her.

Honors

  • A memorial plaque in the city garden in Vegesack has been commemorating Wittgenstein since 1967.
  • The Bürgermeister-Wittgenstein-Strasse in Bremen, Vegesack district , was named after him in 1971.
  • His honor grave is in the Vegesack cemetery.

Works

  • The liability of the purchasing commissioner towards the principal ..., Leipzig (Diss. Jur. Fac.) 1908.
  • The crowned fish, (Friesland-Bücherei, Volume 15), Bremen (Friesen-Verlag) 1922
  • La Bagatelle, (short story), Bremen (Angelsachsen Verlag) 1924
  • Thiele Vorsings Uhr, (Roman), Bremen (Friesen-Verlag) 1927
  • Vegesack, the daughter city of Bremen, undated (Vegesack), undated (around 1928)

literature

  • Diedrich Steilen : History of the Bremen port city of Vegesack, Vegesack (Rohr) 1926.
  • Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon , complete edition. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1850-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diedrich Steilen : History of the Bremen port city of Vegesack, Vegesack 1926, pp. 128–135
  2. ↑ Thomas Begerow: 200 years of theater life in Vegesack, in: Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 89, Bremen 2010, pp. 157–160
  3. ↑ Bubke, Schulte, Tegelbeckers, Windhoff u. a .: Simple building. Ernst Becker - Life and Work of an Architect, Delmenhorst 1999, pp. 31–43
  4. ↑ He led the Schlaraffes name Futur the aesthetic firstborn in: Stammrolle der Schlaraffenreyche, anno Uhui 61/62 (= 1920/21), p. 480. Blogger Jay; Silvae: Ernst Becker-Sassenhof , 2013, [1]
  5. ↑ Thomas Begerow: 200 years of theater life in Vegesack, in: Bremisches Jahrbuch, Volume 89, Bremen 2010, p. 160
  6. ^ Jens Werner: Kulturbund and Volksfront, Frankfurt / M. 1992, p. 1199
personal data
SURNAME Wittgenstein, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, writer and city director
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1965
Place of death Berlin