Willi Cuno

This article deals with the Hagen politician. The article Wilhelm Cuno deals with the Reich Chancellor .

Portrait of Willi Cuno

Willi Cuno (born September 22, 1860 in Berlin , † May 26, 1951 in Hagen ) was a German administrative officer and first Lord Mayor of the independent city of Hagen in the eastern Ruhr area .

Life

Cuno attended a grammar school in Neukölln from 1869 to 1877 before studying law in Berlin from 1877 to 1881 and then completing his legal clerkship. From 1881 to 1898 Cuno worked in the Berlin city administration, where he gained the necessary experience in municipal administration. From 1898 to 1901 Cuno was alderman and city councilor in Königsberg .

He belonged to the free-thinking people's party and from 1918 the DDP . From 1901 to 1907 he was mayor of the city of Hagen and from 1907 to December 31, 1926 he was mayor of Hagen. From 1902 to 1929 he was also a member of the Provincial Parliament . From 1906 to 1912 he was a member of the Reichstag (Free People's Party). In March and April 1920 he took part in the resistance against the Kapp Putsch .

Former home of Cunos, the listed Villa Cuno in Hagen-Eppenhausen

Shortly after he left office, the city granted him honorary citizenship on February 7, 1927 . The housing estate started on the Kuhlerkamp in 1926 was named after him ( Cuno-Siedlung ). He was also an honorary citizen of the University of Münster .

One of his achievements is the expansion of the vocational school system, which is why the Cuno vocational colleges I and II in Hagen are named after him. The Cuno power plant in Herdecke also bears his name.

literature

• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 29 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Michael Heisig: Cuno, Willi , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 130f.
• Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 51f.

Web links

Commons : Willi Cuno  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Willi Cuno. Hagen heads. September 18, 2006, archived from the original on October 3, 2006 ; accessed on December 10, 2010 (biography on the city of Hagen's website). 
• Willi Cuno in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Willi Cuno . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Compare short biography in: Bureau des Reichstag (ed.): Reichstag manual. Twelfth legislative term. Completed on April 3, 1907. Norddeutsche Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1907, p. 232f., Image on p. 501.
2. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): Statistics of the Reichstag elections of 1907. von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, Berlin 1907, p. 86. (Special publication on the quarterly books on statistics of the German Reich) - Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: Die Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1907. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . 2nd edition supplemented by an appendix. Addendum. The Reichstag election of 1907 (12th legislative period). Carl Heymann, Berlin 1908, p. 40.
3. ↑ information about the Cuno-Berufskolleg II cuno.de .