Wilhelm Kuhr

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Wilhelm Kuhr (born August 9, 1865 in Werden bei Heydekrug , East Prussia ; † December 23, 1914 near Leng (Łęg) in what is now Powiat Tomaszowski , Poland ) was a German administrative lawyer and municipal official.

Life

Kuhr attended the Royal Lyck High School . After graduating from high school, he studied law and economics at the Albertus University in Königsberg . As has always been the case with many graduates of his school, he became a member of the Corps Masovia in the winter semester of 1886/87 after Eduard Loch and Paul Hensel . After training in Fischhausen and Königsberg, at the age of 31 he became second and then first mayor of Burg (near Magdeburg) . From 1906 to 1914 he was mayor of the rural community of Pankow near Berlin in the Prussian Niederbarnim district . He realized the multi-million dollar waterworks project , built the road , built schools, developed the entire educational system and promoted the public health service and social welfare . The resolution passed under him on August 25, 1907 to keep the historic park as a communal public park and not to open the area for the construction of tenement barracks has shaped the streetscape of the district to this day. The Pankow city chronicle called him the "father of the community". He wanted the Masurenstrasse in Pankow to remind the Berliners of his homeland and the Corps brothers of Masovia.

At the beginning of the First World War , Kuhr immediately registered as a volunteer at the age of 49 . As a captain of the Prussian Landwehr , he fell on the Eastern Front in 1914 when the village of Leng on the Pilica in central Poland was stormed. His grandson Hermann-Wilhelm Kuhr (* 1935) was a judge at the Frankfurt am Main regional court .

Honors

The Wilhelm Kuhr Foundation for war invalids, widows and orphans from 1915, named after him, wrote:

“What gave Wilhelm Kuhr's personality the magic and power over people ...? His nature was simple and plain. the expression of a pure and kind heart, his mind was clear, which weighed before he dared, and his strong, tenacious energy did not let him give up his goal. He has never abused his power; not only was he protected from this by the nobility of his character, but above all by the indomitable sense of justice. He respected every conviction ... "

- Wilhelm Kuhr Foundation

In his honor, the former Spandauer Strasse was renamed Wilhelm-Kuhr-Strasse in 1915 . Originally entirely in the Pankow area, today the western part is in the Gesundbrunnen district of Berlin . A street in Burg (near Magdeburg) still bears Wilhelm Kuhr's name.

See also

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Kuhr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 89/811
  2. ^ List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 2005 . Potsdam 2006
  3. ^ A b Hans Lippold: Wilhelm Kuhr and his street . Altmärker-Masuren newspaper 29, Kiel 1961, p. 379
  4. ^ Gallery of the Pankow mayors
personal data
SURNAME Kuhr, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, mayor of Burg bei Magdeburg and Pankow
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Be at Heydekrug , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1914
Place of death Leng (Łęg), Gmina Rzeczyca, Powiat Tomaszowski, Poland