Georg Thieler (31 December 1854–10 February 1945) was a German jurist and mayor of Jena from 1885 to 1889.
Life and career
editBorn in Osnabrück, Thieler was the son of a building inspector. After finishing his Abitur he studied legal science at the University of Göttingen.[1] While there in 1874, he joined the Studentenverbindung Holzminda.[2] In the summer of 1878 he completed his studies with a Promotion.
In 1885, he succeeded Georg von Eucken-Addenhausen as mayor of Jena,[3] an office he held until 31 August 1889.[4] Afterwards he moved to Koberwitz. In 1902 he became director of the Herkules-Brauerei in Kassel, in 1909 executive director (Geschäftsführer) of the Hergenrather Tonwerk GmbH in Hergenrath, then of a factory in Aachen. From 1923 to 1926 he worked at the Federal Equalization Office (Reichsausgleichsamt) in Düsseldorf. He died in Bad Sooden in February 1945.
He was a member of the Union for Thuringian History and Archaeology (Verein für Thüringische Geschichte und Altertumskunde).
Publications
edit- Bericht über öffentliche Armenpflege und Wohltätigkeit in der Großherzoglichen Residenz- und Universitäts-Stadt Jena für das Jahr 1885 und 1886. Jena 1887. (in German)
- Bericht über die Verwaltung und die Betriebs-Ergebnisse der Brauerei der Stadt Jena i.J. 1887/88. Jena 1888. (in German)
Literature
edit- Helge Dvorak: Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft. Image. 1, Part. 8, Supplement L–Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1, pp. 412–413.
- Mitgliederverzeichnisse der Verbindung und der Burschenschaft Holzminda, Göttingen, 1888 ff.
References
edit- ^ Wilhelm Ebel: Die Matrikel der Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1837–1900. Hildesheim 1974. (Nr. 54850, matriculated on 29 April 1874)
- ^ Willy Nolte (Hrsg.): Burschenschafter-Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft up to summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 499.
- ^ Herbert Koch: Geschichte der Stadt Jena. Stuttgart 1966, p. 250.
- ^ "Jena/Entwicklung 1889-1912-4 – GenWiki".