Ernst Heinrich Lindemann

Ernst Heinrich Lindemann (25 January 1833 in Kirchlengern – 8 May 1900 in Düsseldorf) was German politician and mayor of Essen, Dortmund and Düsseldorf. His grandson Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann was the commander of the battleship Bismarck.

Ernst Heinrich Lindemann
Mayor of Düsseldorf
In office
September 1886 – June 1899
Mayor of Dortmund
In office
1878–1886
Mayor of Essen
In office
21 March 1859 – 1 September 1868
Personal details
Born25 January 1833
Kirchlengern
Died8 May 1900 (1900-05-09) (aged 67)
Düsseldorf
NationalityGerman
RelationsErnst Lindemann (grandson)

Lindemann was the son of the Theologian Heinrich Lindemann (1805–1861) who was the pastor of Kirchlegern since 1832. Lindemann studied law at the universities in Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin from 1851 to 1854. He was elected mayor of Essen in December 1858. He held this office nine years from 1859 to 1868. He resigned from office and worked as a bank director of the Westdeutschen Versicherungs-Aktienbank and then as general director of the Bochumer Verein für Bergbau und Gußstahlfabrikation (BVG), an iron factory, belonging to Friedrich Grillo.[1]

The father of three sons and two daughters died on 8 May 1900. His oldest son, Georg Heinrich Ernst Lindemann, was the father of the Captain of the battleship Bismarck, Otto Ernst Lindemann.[2]

References
Citations
  1. Grützner 2010, p. 16.
  2. Grützner 2010, p. 17.
Bibliography
  • Grützner, Jens (2010). Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann: Der Bismarck-Kommandant - Eine Biographie (in German). VDM Heinz Nickel. ISBN 978-3-86619-047-4.
  • Weidenhaupt, Hugo (1993). Kleine Geschichte der Stadt Düsseldorf. 9. Auflage. Triltsch, Düsseldorf, ISBN 3-7998-0000-X.
Government offices
Preceded by
Johann Heinrich Horstmann		 Mayor of Essen
21 March 1859 – 1 September 1868		 Succeeded by
Albert Theodor Gustav Hache
Preceded by
Richard Prüfer		 Mayor of Dortmund
1878–1886		 Succeeded by
Karl Wilhelm Schmieding
Preceded by
Friedrich Wilhelm Becker		 Mayor of Düsseldorf
September 1886 – June 1899		 Succeeded by
Wilhelm Marx


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