Max von Forckenbeck

Maximilian ( Max ) Franz August von Forckenbeck ( born October 23, 1821 in Münster, † May 26, 1892 in Berlin) was a German lawyer, politician and mayor of Berlin from 1878 to 1892. He is considered one of the most important Berlin mayor because he reached through his prudent and rational management much for Berliners and their city.

Life

1821 Max was born as the son of Forckenbeck a Münsterland family. From 1838 he studied law at the Hessian Ludwigs- University of Giessen. In 1840, he became active in the Corps Teutonia casting. As Inactive he moved to the Friedrich -Wilhelms -Universität zu Berlin.

From 1842 he worked first as a clerk and from 1847 as an assessor at Glogau City Court. As president of the liberal Constitutional Glogau Association since 1848, he was admitted in 1849 by the Prussian Ministry of Justice for the East Prussian town of Morag as a lawyer. Until 1859 he worked at the same time as a city councilor and representative of the city council at. In 1859 he was elected as a member of the liberal faction in the Prussian House of Representatives and tried to constitute a liberal party there from the beginning. On January 13, 1861, separate the " Group Forckenbeck " and the " Group Vincke ". Forckenbeck founded the German Progress Party.

1861 Forckenbeck managed it in the Committee of the German National Association, which he had joined in 1859. During the Prussian constitutional conflict from 1862 to 1866, he tried to go as a leading member of the Progressive Party, the open conflict with Otto von Bismarck out of the way. Due to its prudent efforts to achieve understanding, he was from 1866 to 1873 president of the Prussian House of Representatives and from 1874 to 1879 to the President of the Reichstag. At the same time founded by Max Forckenbeck with others, the National Liberal Party and was elected on July 8, 1872 Lord Mayor of the city of Wroclaw.

From 1873 Forckenbeck was a member of the Prussian House of Lords and was elected on September 26, 1878 with an overwhelming majority for Mayor of Berlin. In 1879, he devoted himself exclusively to his work as mayor and left the office of the President of the Reichstag down. During his tenure, Forckenbeck devoted especially the reform of the school system and the expansion of urban infrastructure. Thus, the sewerage and water supply of the city has been improved, for example, during his first term and expanded the transport network. He also had the hygienic conditions improve in the city and create in the city's numerous recreational opportunities, such as the Victoria Park in Kreuzberg. Furthermore, Forckenbeck strongly made ​​for the privatization of urban sectors. So a large part of the Berlin street lighting was provided by private companies.

All these merits meant that Forckenbeck was re-elected in 1890. During his second tenure, he tried mainly on the relationship between state and municipal administration to enhance and aspired to the incorporation of the Berlin suburbs, which he himself did not live. On May 26, 1892 Max von Forckenbeck died in Berlin from the effects of pneumonia. His grave was located on the evangelical Nikolaikirchhof.

Urban honors

• Plaque in the Jüdenstraße in Berlin-Mitte
• Forckenbeckplatz in Berlin- Friedrichshain
• Forckenbeckstraße in Berlin- Wilmersdorf

Works

• The general report of the Budget Commission shall report by Mr von Forckenbeck. Hermann, Berlin 1865
• The Reichstag election in Elberfeld- Barmen. Count von Bismarck, Max von Forckenbeck, Dr. Schweitzer. A contribution to the history of the parties in the Wupper valley. Lucas, Elberfeld 1867
• Answer by the Lord Mayor of Berlin to the attacks of the Chancellor. Gustav Schade, Berlin 1881 ( Speech by the Mayor of Dr. Forckenbeck on April 30, 1881)