Wilhelm Liebrecht

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Wilhelm Liebrecht (born March 24, 1850 in Hanover ; February 24, 1925 there ) was a German lawyer and administrative officer. As president of what would later become the state insurance company in Hanover , Liebrecht was socially politically active, among other things, as a building councilor for workers' housing and housing reform .

Life

Wilhelm Liebrecht was born in Hanover in 1850 as the son of the accountant Christian Daniel Liebrecht (* 1799) and Johanne Henriette Auguste Friederike Liebrecht, née Spellerberg (* 1822). He confessed to the Catholic denomination .

The now listed building of the former old age and disability insurance company in the Maschstrasse in Hanover

After finishing school, Liebrecht studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, where he received his doctorate on February 15, 1873. jur. received his doctorate . In 1879 he was appointed a legally qualified senator for the city of Hanover. According to the social legislation brought into being by the Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Wilhelm Liebrecht worked from 1892 until the end of the First World War in 1918 as regional councilor and chairman of the Hanover Invalidity and Old Age Insurance Institution . In 1890 Liebrecht was a co-founder and from 1890 to 1902 a member of the board of directors of the Volksverein for Catholic Germany . He was also a member of the advisory board of the Central Office for People's Welfare (ZfVW). Liebrecht was also one of the main founders of the Misburg building cooperative .

In 1902 Liebrecht was a participant in the First International Tuberculosis Conference in Berlin . Later on, the now secret government councilor with his main place of work at the Hanover State Insurance Institute took part, for example, in the XIV. International Congress for Hygiene and Demography in Berlin.

Meanwhile, Liebrecht had already suggested the so-called Committee of Seven of the Conference of Invalidity Insurance Institutions in 1904, as a member of which he was active, as was the so-called Committee of Elections in 1908. In 1911 he suggested the formation of a joint conference association of the disability insurance institutions and the standing committee, which he took over management. As a result, Liebrecht remained a member of the standing committee of the Association of German State Insurance Institutions.

In parallel to his aforementioned tasks, Wilhelm Liebrecht was involved as chairman of the main committee from 1904 and as chairman of the board of the German Association for Housing Reform from 1908 to 1914 .

After he was the main founder of the State Association for People's Welfare in 1905, he took over the chairmanship of what was then called the Main Association for People's Welfare , with its headquarters in Hanover.

Wilhelm Liebrecht made particular merits by using the capital of the disability insurance institutions at the time to promote housing construction for workers and for housing reform. His life's work, his commitment to the welfare of the people, poor relief , public health and care for the working class , is “of great historical importance” in the socio-political area, not least for the state capital Hanover. Because Liebrecht was not only active locally, but also supra-regionally, for example in the city of Göttingen : For the Göttingen savings and construction association there , which later became the housing association, he acted as chairman of the Hanover State Insurance Institute (LVA), which under him is developing into the largest sponsor of small housing had enough funds to build new apartments in the settlement on Liebrechtstrasse, which was named after him in 1914 .

On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Liebrecht was awarded a doctorate by the University of Göttingen in 1920 for his work in the field of preventive hygiene. med. hc was awarded an honorary doctorate . On December 18, 1923 , the Faculty of Construction of the Technical University of Hanover recognized his services to the housing sector, especially in the construction of workers' apartments, with the appointment of Dr. Ing. E. h. "In recognition of his services to the development of small housing and to the promotion of public health." In the meantime, Liebrecht had taken over the chairmanship of the Lower Saxony Heimstätte cooperative founded in 1922 .

Wilhelm Liebrecht retired in 1923. After a two-year vacancy , Martin Frommhold took over his duties.

In the year of his death, the address book of the city of Hanover recorded Liebrecht's residence at Meterstrasse 46a for 1925 .

Honor grave

Family tombstone with Gesina Liebrecht, née Rüther (1856–1940) and the pastor Otto Kolshorn (1875–1966) and his wife Gesina, née Liebrecht

Wilhelm Liebrecht was buried in the Engesohde city cemetery . At the request of his great-granddaughter Mareile Schröder, the grave in department 28, number 1056-58, was taken over as an honorary grave in the city's honorary care in 2007, following a unanimous decision of the culture committee, the committee for environmental protection and green spaces and the administrative committee of the city of Hanover .

Further awards

Fonts

  • Statutes for the guild arbitration tribunals. Attempt to regulate the proceedings before the guild arbitration tribunals , Hanover, 1882
  • The construction of workers' apartments with the help of the Invalidity and Old Age Insurance Institute Hanover , 2nd edition, Hanover and Leipzig: Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung, 1893
  • Reich aid for the construction of small apartments , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1900
  • The promotion of the construction of apartments for agricultural workers by the Hanover State Insurance Company, a counterpart to the memorandum of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Hanover on the efforts of the Chamber of Agriculture, the funds of the Hanover State Insurance Company to a greater extent than previously for workers' housing construction in the To bring agriculture to use , Hannover: Landes-Versicherungsanstalt, [1909]

Web links

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ Notwithstanding, the date of death March 24, 1925 is mentioned by mistake; compare Dirk Hainbuch, Florian Tennstedt (arr.), Karin Christl (collabor.): Liebrecht, Wilhelm, Dr. med. hc and Dr. ing. hc , in dies .: Biographical Lexicon for the History of German Social Policy ... p. 98; limited preview in Google Book search

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Dirk Hainbuch, Florian Tennstedt (arrangement), Karin Christl (staff member): Liebrecht, Wilhelm, Dr. med. hc and Dr. ing. hc , in dies .: Biographical Lexicon on the History of German Social Policy 1871 to 1945 , Volume 1: Social Politicians in the German Empire 1871 - 1918 , Kassel: university press 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 and ISBN 978-3- 86219-039-3 , p. 98; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h o. V .: Printed matter no. 2441/2006: taking over a grave for the care of honor , text of the motion recommended by the committee of rules to the culture committee, the committee for environmental protection and green spaces and the administrative committee as well as the course of the consultation with unanimous resolutions from 2007 on the e-government.hannover-stadt.de website from December 13, 2006 to February 15, 2007
  3. ^ A b Christian-Alexander Wäldner: The Technical University of Hanover and the withdrawal of academic titles during the Nazi era. Results of Hanoverian processes taking into account the case of Walter Dux (= history , vol. 112), also master's thesis 2012 at the University of Hanover, Berlin; Münster: Lit Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11908-7 , p. 115; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ News from the Royal Society of Sciences and the Georg August University from 1875 , Göttingen: in commission of the Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1875, p. 347; Digitized via Google books
  5. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann : Liebrechtstraße , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , anthologies 35–38 (1981), p. 75; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ^ The first international tuberculosis conference. Berlin, 22.-26. October 1902; Report (= La première conférence internationale antituberculeuse - Rapport ) (= The first international conference on tuberculosis - Report ), ed. von ... Pannwitz, Berlin, 1903, p. 430; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ^ Report on the XIV. International Congress on Hygiene and Demography. Berlin, Sept. 23-29, 1907 , Volume 1, Berlin: Hirschwald, 1908, pp. 38, 110; limited preview in Google Book search
  8. ^ A b c Henning Schreiber: The Liebrechtstrasse and its namesake Wilhelm Liebrecht , in: WG current. Members' newspaper of the housing cooperative eG Göttingen , volume 22, issue number 35 from December 2015, p. 18; online as a PDF document from wg-goe.de
  9. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 44 (1924), p. 14; limited preview in Google Book search
  10. ^ Sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , volumes 91–92, Verlag August Lax, 1980, p. 499 and others; limited preview in Google Book search
  11. ↑ Karljosef Kreter : Stumbling stone laying September 26, 2018 , information sheet as PDF document of the state capital Hanover, Central Affairs Culture, Urban Remembrance Culture, Hanover: LHH, 2018
  12. ^ Address book Hanover 1925 , Department III: Alphabetical directory of residents and trading companies , p. 263; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Liebrecht, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer and President of the Hanover State Insurance Company
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1925
Place of death Hanover