Wolf Runge

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Wolf Runge (born February 8, 1876 in Neuenheerse , † April 10, 1945 in Sopot ) was a German engineer and politician .

Life

Wolf Runge attended the Andreas Realgymnasium in Hildesheim, where he graduated from high school in 1895. In the summer semester of 1895 he began studying electrical engineering at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1896 he became a member of the Corps Macaria, later the Corps Macaro-Visurgia . From 1922 to 1928 he also wore the ribbon of the Corps Baltica Danzig. At the beginning of 1901 he graduated as Dipl.-Ing. from.

After completing his military service as a one-year volunteer in the Bückeburg Jägerregiment, he joined the Berlin municipal service in 1902 . In 1905 he became chief engineer and deputy director of the municipal gas, water and electricity works in Duisburg . In 1909 he moved to the municipal works of Lüneburg as director . From 1912 until his early retirement in 1929 he was a city ​​councilor and head of the gas and waterworks department of the city of Gdansk . In the First World War he took part in its full length, most recently as captain of the reserve . From 1921 to 1929 he was a member of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig , from December 1924 to December 1928 in Senate Sahm II as a senator in the main office, responsible for state-owned enterprises. During his tenure there was an extensive expansion of the gas and electricity works, an expansion of hydropower plants on the Radaune and the expansion of the city cattle yard (the export of ham to England was a profitable industry) and the promotion of air traffic.

Wolf Runge was a member of the board of the Gdansk Electrotechnical Society and the state board of the Gdansk Hunting Protection Association. For many years he was chairman of the supervisory board of Danziger Elektrische Straßenbahn AG.

Awards

  • Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class
  • Schaumburg-Lippisches War Merit Cross
  • Honorary citizen of the Gdansk University of Technology

literature

  • Hans Nehlep (Ed.): Album Academicum des Corps Baltica-Borussia Danzig 1860-1970. Berlin 1973; revised and supplemented by Degenhardt Müller, Hans-Wolfgang Nehlep and Jürgen Protz, Essen 2000, p. 182
  • Runge, wolf. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1583.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Free City of Danzig - The Senates 1920–1939
  2. ^ Ernst Ziehm : From my political work in Danzig 1914-1939 (autobiography), pp. 50–51
personal data
SURNAME Runge, wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuenheerse
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1945
Place of death Sopot