Georg Voigt (politician)

Georg Philipp Wilhelm Voigt (16 September 1866 – 13 April 1927) was a German politician. Voigt was the mayor of Rixdorf, Barmen, Frankfurt, and Marburg.

Georg Voigt
Mayor of Barmen
In office 1906–1912
Preceded by	Johannes Gustav Brodzina
Succeeded by	Paul Hartmann
Mayor of Frankfurt
In office 1912–1924
Preceded by	Franz Adickes
Succeeded by	Ludwig Landmann
Mayor of Marburg
In office 12 February 1925 – 13 April 1927
Preceded by	Paul Troje
Succeeded by	Johannes Müller
Personal details
Born	(1866-09-16)16 September 1866 Klein-Schellmühl near Danzig, Prussia (Młyniska, Gdańsk)
Died	13 April 1927(1927-04-13) (aged 60) Marburg, Weimar Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	NLP / DDP
Alma mater	University of Breslau, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Königsberg

Political career

Voigt, the son of a hotelier, was born in Klein-Schellmühl near Danzig, Prussia (Młyniska, Gdańsk). He studied law between 1886 and 1890 at the universities of Breslau (Wrocław), Berlin and Königsberg (Kaliningrad). In 1899, Voigt became the mayor of Rixdorf (now a part of Berlin-Neukölln) and was also the mayor of Barmen between 1906 and 1912, before becoming the mayor of Frankfurt.^[1] He belonged to the moderate wing of the conservative-liberal National Liberal Party. From 1907 to 1912, he represented Barmen in the Prussian House of Lords. From 1912 to 1918, he represented Frankfurt in the Prussian House of Lords. After the German revolution of 1918–1919 he joined the German Democratic Party, which espoused social liberalism or progressivism.

Voigt was mayor during the French occupation of Frankfurt from 6 April to 17 May 1920. He issued a "severe warning" calling on the population to remain calm and follow the requests of the occupying troops following the Hauptwache Incident on 7 April. During his terms of office, the Goethe University Frankfurt, then known as the University of Frankfurt am Main, opened. Voigt was responsible for the city safeguarding the finances of the university after its endowment was virtually lost during the hyperinflation of the early Weimar Republic.

On 2 October 1924, Voigt lost the Frankfurt mayoral election by a vote of 36 to 25 to his Democratic Party colleague Ludwig Landmann. On 22 November 1924, Voigt was elected mayor of Marburg, serving from February 1925 until his death in April 1927. He was buried in Berlin-Zehlendorf. A street is named after Voigt in the Westend-Süd neighborhood of Frankfurt.