Franz Adickes

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Franz Adickes
Mayor of Frankfurt
In office 14 October 1890 – 1 October 1912
Preceded by	Johannes von Miquel
Succeeded by	Georg Voigt
Personal details
Born	19 February 1846 Harsefeld, Kingdom of Hanover
Died	4 February 1915 Frankfurt, German Empire
Political party	Independent Liberal
Spouse	Sophie Therese Lambert
Children	4

Franz Bourchard Ernst Adickes was a German politician. He was the mayor of Dortmund from 1873 to 1876, the mayor of Altona from 1876 to 1879, and mayor of Frankfurt from 14 October 1890 to 1 October 1912.^[1]

Adickes is considered one of the most important in the history of Frankfurt due to his tenure during the founding period, an important time in Frankfurt's urban development. In the history of Frankfurt, Adickes has the longest tenure as mayor.

Adickes is the brother of German philosopher Erich Adickes.

On 27 September 1873, Adickes married Sophie Therese Lambert (1848-1922) and they had four children:^{[citation needed]}

• Friedrich, the only son, died in July 1874 at the age of four days.
• Theodore (1875-1945), married Dr. Ludwig Rottenberg (1864-1932), a Frankfurt composer and first conductor of the Frankfurt Opera in 1895. Her daughter, Gertrud (1900-1967) married the Frankfurt composer Paul Hindemith.
• Gertrud (1878-1960), married the business magnate and politician Alfred Hugenberg (1865-1951) in 1900 and together had a son and three daughters.
• Erika (1889-1960), married Karl Eisenlohr.

Adickes studied law in Heidelberg, Munich and Göttingen from 1864 to 1867.^{[citation needed]} In July 1873, shortly after his Second State Exam, he was unanimously elected mayor of Dortmund, a position he served for three years. In 1876, Adickes was appointed as the second mayor in the Prussian city of Altona, succeeding Friedrich Thaden. As mayor, Adickes developed the city to compete with neighboring Hamburg.^{[citation needed]}

The Frankfurt city council elected Adickes on 14 October 1890 as mayor. He assisted the establishment of the Festhalle art museum. He was an important figure in the founding of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in 1914. He also achieved the establishment of an efficient airport.^{[citation needed]}

Adickes died two and a half years after the end of his term as mayor of Frankfurt.^{[citation needed]}

In 1912, he was appointed honorary citizen of the city of Frankfurt, and in 1914 was awarded the title "Real Geheimer Rat", a symbolic honor for the highest officials in Prussia.^{[citation needed]}

On 25 October 1916, a bust was unveiled in the atrium of the new university for the university founder, who died the previous year.^{[citation needed]}

In 1996, on the occasion of Adickes' 150th birthday, the Institute of Urban History organized the exhibition Breakthrough to Modernity.^{[citation needed]}

• https://www.myheritage.com/names/franz_adickes
• "Adickes, Franz". Frankfurter Personenlexikon (in German).