Willibald Hamburger

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Karl Theodor Willibald Hamburger (born January 6, 1884 in Gronau ; † August 21, 1965 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German architect and politician ( DNVP , CDP / CDU ).

Life

Hamburger passed his Abitur at the new grammar school in Darmstadt in 1904 . This was followed by a degree in architecture at the Technical University in Darmstadt . In 1909 he passed the exam as a graduate engineer . After working as an architect in Bosnia for the first time , in 1912 he took over the building department of the Diakonieanstalten Bad Kreuznach . In the Weimar Republic he was a member of the DNVP. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was no party. He was in the era of National Socialism member of the NSI and the German Nazi League technology . On January 20, 1949, he received the decision of the public plaintiff for the Kreuznach district who was not affected. After 1945 he became involved in local politics. In 1945 he became a member of the citizens' council , in 1946 a city councilor in the city ​​council and in the four-man council . From 1946 to 1949 he was honorary mayor of Bad Kreuznach. In 1947 he took part in the state constituent assembly for Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1948 he was a member of the district council, in 1956 district deputy and representative of the district administrator .

“Willibald Hamburger's significance for Bad Kreuznach is on two levels: on the one hand, as an architect, he helped shape the face of the Nahe city through the buildings he designed, and on the other hand, he has identified himself as one of the most energetic“ men from the very beginning ” after the Second World War in the field of local politics earned lasting services to the city and district of Bad Kreuznach, when the task was to get political, administrative, economic and cultural life going again and to organize reconstruction. "

- Dr. Horst Silbermann, Bad Kreuznach City Archives

Buildings

Kreuznach Diakonie Foundation

Feierabendhaus, now the academy of the kreuznacher diakonie foundation
Paulinum on the grounds of the Kreuznacher Diakonie Foundation
  • House Pella
  • Paulinum
  • Apprentice home
  • After-work house
  • Emma Reich Hall

Bad Kreuznach

Ring School Bad Kreuznach
Lodge in Bad Kreuznach
  • Kreuznach Lodge (1925)
  • Ring School (1926)
  • Rheumatism Clinic (Today Hotel Fürstenhof)
  • Entrance building to the spa gardens
  • Villa Moltkestrasse 6
  • Villa Prinz-Friedrich-Karl-Strasse 4

Willibald-Hamburger-Strasse

In 2017, the city council of Bad Kreuznach decided to name Planstrasse A in the new development area In den Weingärten as Willibald-Hamburger-Strasse .

literature

  • Hans-Dieter Hamburger, Willibald Hamburger - A picture of life. Typewritten manuscript. Bad Kreuznach 2000 (Hamburg family archive)
  • Gerd Michael Kneib, 1945 - and how it went on. A contribution to the history of our city in: Bad Kreuznach from the city elevation to the present. Published by the city administration of Bad Kreuznach on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the award of city rights (= contributions to the history of the city of Bad Kreuznach, vol. 1). Bad Kreuznach 1990, pp. 262, 268, 270, 274, 276, 278, 319
  • Walter Krumm, With new confidence in business and politics. Forty years ago currency reform and local elections under German law in: Bad Kreuznacher Heimatblätter 1988, Issues 11 and 12
  • Richard Walter, first free choice sixty years ago. The Hamburg resident of Darmstadt becomes Kreuznach's only honorary mayor in: Bad Kreuznacher Heimatblätter 2006, issue 12;
  • Horst Silbermann, “No golden times”. Post-war documents from the Hamburger Familienarchiv in: Bad Kreuznacher Heimatblätter 2009, Issue 1;
  • Edith Ruser and Herbert Dellwing, Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany. City of Bad Kreuznach (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate, Volume 5.1). Düsseldorf 1987, pp. 76, 170, 190, 198-200;
  • New art of work . Willibald Hamburger. With an introduction by Alfons Schmittgen. Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1930;
  • 25 years of the Nahe artist group. Bad Kreuznach 1986 (contains a three-page tribute to the painter Willibald Hamburger)
  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015, 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , pp. 255-256 .

Awards

Memberships

Web links

Commons : Willibald Hamburger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City archive of Bad Kreuznach: Kreuznacher personalities
  2. ^ The President of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015, 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , pp. 255– 256.
  3. Allgemeine Zeitung of September 21, 2017