Hanno Drechsler

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Hanno Drechsler
Mayor of Marburg
In office
11 September 1970 – 31 December 1992
Preceded byGeorg Gaßmann
Succeeded byDietrich Möller
Personal details
Born(1931-03-24)24 March 1931
Schönheide, Saxony
Died4 January 2003(2003-01-04) (aged 71)
Marburg, Hesse
NationalityGerman
Political partySPD
SpouseGisela Drechsler
ChildrenWolfgang Drechsler
Alma materUniversity of Marburg
ProfessionTeacher

Hanno Drechsler (24 March 1931 – 4 January 2003) was the

political scientist.[1]

Life

Education

Hanno Drechsler went to school in

Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SAP), and became an expert on the small parties "between" social democrats and communists during the Weimar Republic
.

Career

Afterwards, he became "(Ober-)

social democrat, where he soon held positions in the City Parliament. In 1970, he was elected – after declining to become the president of the newly founded University of Kassel – Lord Mayor of the City of Marburg, a position he held until his retirement due to health reasons in 1992, drawing in the end popular support of well over 75% of the citizens.[citation needed
]

Achievements

He provided tenacious and strong support and implementation of the restoration of the Oberstadt (uptown) of Marburg, one of the most important old German cities largely untouched by the war, full with timbered and stone houses of

Elisabeth of Hungary. In the beginning, this was a battle against the zeitgeist
, as the idea in the early 1970s was still to raze the old houses to the ground, make the town centre accessible to traffic, etc. To restore all houses individually, create pedestrian zones, but to make the Oberstadt livable and not just a tourist attraction was largely his idea, and he implemented it against then strong opposition.

He significantly promoted art and culture as well, using his contacts and charisma to assist artists and musicians in Marburg. Much in the international success of Rose Nabinger and the jazz band "Kreisjazzwerkerschaft" probably came from their appearances he made possible in the sister cities all over Europe.[citation needed]

Party functions

Since 1956, Drechsler was a member of the

Frankfurt am Main
, or as Minister of the Interior of Hesse, he always declined.

Honours

Among the many honours Drechsler received are the

Reichskristallnacht
" at the place of the former synagogue in 1991 that ended his career.

Family

Hanno Drechsler was married, for 53 years, to Gisela Drechsler née Streller (2 March 1931 – 19 October 2008); their son is the social scientist Wolfgang Drechsler.

Memorials

Today, Hanno Drechsler is remembered by the "Hanno-Drechsler-Platz", an urban space that forms the south-westerly gate to the Oberstadt for pedestrians, with a fountain and trees, but mostly by the intact and restored Oberstadt itself.

Bibliography

  • Drechsler, Hanno et al., eds, Gesellschaft und Staat: Lexikon der Politik, 10th edn., Munich: Vahlen, 2003 (1st edn. Baden-Baden: Signal, 1970; recipient of the Deutscher Jugendbuchpreis)
  • Drechsler, Hanno et al., Zur Geschichte der Synagoge und der jüdischen Gemeinde in Marburg, 2nd edn., Marburg: Stadt Marburg, 1993 (Marburger Stadtschriften zur Geschichte und Kultur, 39)
  • Drechsler, Hanno et al., Rabbiner Dr. Leopold Lucas: Marburg 1872–1943 Theresienstadt: Versuch einer Würdigung, Marburg: Stadt Marburg, 1987 (Marburger Stadtschriften zur Geschichte und Kultur, 21)
  • Drechsler, Hanno, Die Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SAPD): Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Deutschen Arbeiterbewegung am Ende der Weimarer Republik, Meisenheim am Glan: Hain, 1963; Repr. Hannover: Politladen, 1971; 2. Repr. Hamburg: Junius, 1999

References

  1. ^ "Hessian Biography : Extended Search : LAGIS Hessen". www.lagis-hessen.de. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  • Auerbach, Inge, ed., Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Die Akademischen Lehrer der Philipps-Universität in Marburg von 1911 bis 1971, Marburg: Elwert, 1979 (Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Hessen, 15,2), q.v.
  • Dettmering, Erhart, ed., Dr. Hanno Drechsler, 22 Jahre für Marburg: Weggefährten erinnern sich an die Amtszeit von Oberbürgermeister Dr. Hanno Drechsler im Marburger Rathaus von 1970–1992 – Eine Würdigung anlässlich seiner Verabschiedung am 16. Dezember 1992, Marburg: Rathaus-Verlag, 1995 (Marburger Stadtschriften zur Geschichte und Kultur, 50)
  • Dettmering, Erhart, ed., "Alles für Marburg": Eine Chronik mit Texten, Dokumenten, Artikeln und Reden aus der 20jährigen Amtszeit von Hanno Drechsler als Oberbürgermeister der Universitätsstadt Marburg 1970–1990, Marburg: Universitätsstadt Marburg, 1991 (Marburger Stadtschriften zur Geschichte und Kultur, 33)

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Preceded by Mayor of Marburg
11 September 1970 – 31 December 1992 		Succeeded by

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