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Arthur Hobrecht
Arthur Hobrecht
Mayor of Breslau
In office 1863–1873
Mayor of Berlin
In office 1873–1878
Prussian House of Lords
In office January 1865 – March 1878
Prussian Minister of Finances
In office March 1878 – 28 June 1879
Prussian House of Representatives
In office 1880–1912
Constituency	Preußisch Stargard (Starogard Gdański)
Member of the Reichstag
In office 1881–1884
Constituency	Marienwerder 1 (Stuhm/Marienwerder)
In office 1886–1890
Constituency	Marienwerder 3 (Graudenz)
Personal details
Born	(1824-08-14)14 August 1824 Kobierczyn, West Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia (Kobierzyn, Poland)
Died	7 July 1912(1912-07-07) (aged 87) Lichterfelde (Berlin), Germany
Political party	National Liberal Party
Spouse	Emma née Stampe (1828-1912)
Children	Eva Doris (1858-1935) Fritz
Relatives	James Hobrecht (brother)
Occupation	jurist

Arthur Heinrich Rudolph Johnson Hobrecht (14 August 1824 – 7 July 1912) was a German liberal politician, mayor of Breslau (Wrocław) and Berlin. Hobrecht served as Prussian minister of Finances under Otto von Bismarck and was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and the German Parliament.

Biography

Hobrecht was born in Kobierczyn, West Prussia (Kobierzyn, Poland) to Ludolf Hobrecht. His mother, née Johnson, was of English descent.

Hobrecht studied law at the Universities of Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Leipzig and Halle. From 1841 to 1844 he worked at courts in Elbing (Elbląg), Graudenz (Grudziądz) and Marienwerder (Kwidzyn) in West Prussia and was deputy head of the district administration in Rybnik and Grottkau (Grodków) in Prussian Silesia from 1847 to 1849. Until 1860 he held several administrative positions in Posen (Poznan), Gleiwitz (Gliwice) and Marienwerder. In 1860 Hobrecht began to work at the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. In 1863 he became mayor of Breslau, as such also a member of the Prussian House of Lords.

Hobrecht succeeded Carl Theodor Seydel as mayor of Berlin in 1873. His younger brother James Hobrecht already served as head of Berlin's municipal planning administration and was responsible for the so-called Hobrecht-Plan, which coined the modern structure of the city of Berlin.

His attempts to incorporate the suburbs of Charlottenburg and Köpenick and the districts of Teltow in the south and Niederbarnim in the north into Berlin's administration were unsuccessful and led to his resignation in 1878. He then served as Prussian minister of finances from 1878 to 1879 but soon came into conflict with Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. After his dismissal he ran for the German National Liberal Party and was elected a member of the Prussian House of Representatives in 1880, a mandate he would hold until his death in 1912. Hobrecht also became a member of the German Reichstag, representing the Marienwerder 1 constituency from 1881 to 1884 and Marienwerder 3 from 1886 to 1890.

On his 80th birthday, 14 August 1904, Hobrecht became an Honorary citizen of Berlin. He died on 7 July 1912 in Lichterfelde (Berlin).

References

1. Krumeich, Gerd; Lepsius, M. Reiner (2008). Max Weber, Briefe 1915 - 1917 (in German). Mohr Siebeck. p. 873. ISBN 978-3-16-149481-9.
2. "Reichstags-Abgeordnetendatenbank.de" (in German).
3. ^ "Hobrecht, Arthur" (in German). Deutsche Biographie.
4. ^ "Wie Groß-Berlin entstand - Der richtige Mann zur richtigen Zeit" (in German). Tagesspiegel.
5. "Bürgermeistergalerie" (in German). berlin.de. 8 October 2013.
6. Haunfelder, Bernd (2004). Die liberalen Abgeordneten des Deutschen Reichstags 1871 - 1918 (in German). Aschendorff. p. 201. ISBN 978-3-40-206614-0.
7. "Berliner Ehrenbürger" (in German). parlament-berlin.de.

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v t e City mayors of Wrocław
Breslau (1809–1945)	Benjamin Gottlieb Müller Friedrich August Carl von Kospoth Gottlieb Donatus Menzel Karl Gottlieb Lange Julius Pinder Alexander Julius Elwanger Arthur Hobrecht Max von Forckenbeck Ferdinand Friedensburg Georg Bender Paul Matting Otto Wagner Helmut Rebitzki Hans Fridrich Ernst Leichtenstern
Wrocław (1945–present)	Bolesław Drobner Aleksander Wachniewski Bronisław Kupczyński Józef Barczyk Marian Dryll Eugeniusz Król Bolesław Iwaszkiewicz Stanisław Panek Marian Czuliński Zbigniew Nadratowski Janusz Owczarek Stanisław Apoznański Stefan Skąpski Bogdan Zdrojewski Stanisław Huskowski Rafał Dutkiewicz Jacek Sutryk
List of mayors of Breslau, List of city mayors of Wrocław

• 1824 births
• 1912 deaths
• People from Gdańsk County
• People from West Prussia
• German people of English descent
• University of Königsberg alumni
• Leipzig University alumni
• University of Halle alumni
• Mayors of Berlin
• Mayors of Wrocław
• Members of the Prussian House of Lords
• National Liberal Party (Germany) politicians
• Members of the Prussian House of Representatives
• Members of the 5th Reichstag of the German Empire
• Members of the 7th Reichstag of the German Empire