Bernhard Nickel

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Bernhard Nickel

Christian Bernhard Nickel (born November 17, 1794 in Heilbronn ; † June 11, 1879 there ; also Nikel ) was a German forester and politician .

Life

Nickel was forest inspector (community forester) in Heilbronn from 1834 to 1877, where he described and divided the city ​​forest for the first time in 1839 and measured it in 1842.

At the beginning of the revolution in 1848/49 , Nickel, who was politically conservative and patriotic, was a lifelong member of the Heilbronn city ​​council , as was intended at that time in the Kingdom of Württemberg with direct re-election after an initial two-year term of office. Against the background of the revolutionary mood in the country's political disputes increased in Heilbronn, and after a City Council decision of 9 March 1848 of the citizens to join the newly to be drawn up Heilbronner vigilantes called, occurred on the following day the Mayor Heinrich Titot and nickel and two more lifelong councilors resigned from office. However, at the request of the city council, the citizens' committee and the Heilbronner Oberamtmann Friedrich Mugler, they remained in office until the regular city council replacement election in June or until the appointment of the next mayor August Klett in May. Nickel was re-elected to the city council. After the city council election in August 1849, he was no longer a member of the city council.

Nickel was a lieutenant in the town of Heilbronn's bourgeois rifle corps, founded in 1830 and a forerunner of the vigilante group, first as a lieutenant, from 1840 as a first lieutenant, and from 1843 as a commander. In the newly formed vigilante group, in which the rifle corps merged with other defensive associations such as the gymnastics department and the fire department , he was commander of the snipers . On October 14, 1848, he was elected by the vigilante officer corps as commander in chief of the Heilbronn vigilante and confirmed in this office by King Wilhelm I on October 20. Nickel tried to moderate the vigilantes from the gymnastics and fire departments who were politically more radical than he was, but he did not succeed for long. On the evening of May 16, 1849, after disagreements, he resigned as commander in chief, but at the urging of his officers, who assumed joint responsibility, he led a march to Bonfeld and Fürfeld , where the vigilante officers captured Baden officers for their protection and then brought them to Heilbronn . After the Heilbronn vigilante group was dissolved and disarmed on June 12, 1849, Nickel was able to justify in an ex officio investigation into this unauthorized and unlawful march, that it had only acted under the full responsibility of its officers.

Memorial stone for Bernhard Nickel in the Heilbronn city forest near the Jägerhaus

On September 20, 1850, Nickel ran in the Oberamt Heilbronn for the Third State Assembly that advised the constitution , but was unable to prevail against the left-wing democratic candidate August Ruoff in this election, for which all men had the same right to vote as in 1849 . In the state elections on April 25, 1851, for which the old Wuerttemberg suffrage with its unequal treatment of voters again applied, he was then elected in the Heilbronn constituency (Oberamt Heilbronn without the city of Heilbronn, which again elected its own representative until 1848). From 1851 to 1868 he represented this constituency in the Second Chamber of the Württemberg estates . There he was almost always a member of the finance committee. He was no longer elected in the 1868 election, the first after a reform of the electoral law that restored universal suffrage. The new member of parliament was the Obereisesheim mayor Karl Haag .

Awards

In 1840 Nickel received the Golden Medal of Civil Merit from the Order of the Württemberg Crown . The city of Heilbronn honored Nickel “for fifty years of versatile work that was a great blessing for the city” with a silver honor goblet dated December 30, 1875 , the design and decoration of which refers to Nickel's activities in the forest and from the Heilbronn silverware factory Peter Bruckmann & Sons .

On April 9, 1931, the Heilbronn municipal council named Nickelstrasse , which is located near the former Südbahnhof , after Bernhard Nickel.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place of birth and death according to: Gerhard Schwinghammer and Reiner Makowski: The Heilbronner street names . Edited by the city of Heilbronn. 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag , Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-87407-677-6 , p. 158
  2. ↑ a b Rolf Rau: The Heilbronn city forest and its educational trail. Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1970, pp. 16, 30 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 5)
  3. ↑ a b Dirk Reuter: Between honorary elections and “party principle”: Heilbronn local politics between the restoration and the founding of an empire. In: Heilbronnica 3. Contributions to the city and regional history. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2006, ISBN 3-928990-95-0 , pp. 205–243, here pp. 231, 234 ( PDF file; 204 kB )
  4. ↑ § 7 of the administrative edict for the municipalities, higher offices and foundations of March 1, 1822. Royal Württemberg State and Government Gazette , Nro. 17 of Thursday, March 14, 1822, p. 131 ( p. 131 in the Google book search)
  5. ^ Franziska Güthler: Heilbronn 1848/49. City archive Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2003, ISBN 3-928990-86-1 , p. 35 ( sources and research on the history of the city of Heilbronn. 16)
  6. ↑ Museums of the City of Heilbronn, Inv. 00.13-3.13. Pictured and described in silver from Heilbronn for the world. P. Bruckmann & Sons (1805–1973). Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2001, ISBN 3-930811-90-1 , p. 123 ( Heilbronn Museum Catalog No. 96)
  7. ^ Friedrich Dürr , Karl Wulle, Willy Dürr, Helmut Schmolz, Werner Föll: Chronicle of the City of Heilbronn . Volume III: 1922-1933. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1986, p. 530 ( Publications of the Archives of the City of Heilbronn . Volume 29).
  8. ↑ Official city map of Heilbronn . Scale 1: 15,000. 41st edition, 2010 edition. City of Heilbronn, Surveying and Cadastre Office, Heilbronn 2010. Grid square K 15

literature

  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 616 .
  • Friedrich Dürr : Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume I: 741-1895. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1986, p. 388–389, 393–396, 400–401, 435, 441 ( publications of the archives of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 27. - Unchanged reprint of the 2nd edition from 1926).
  • Wilhelm Steinhilber: The Heilbronn vigilante groups 1848 and 1849 and their participation in the Baden May Revolution of 1849. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1959, pp. 12, 18–20, 25, 28, 55–61, 68
personal data
SURNAME Nickel, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nickel, Christian Bernhard (full name); Nikel, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1879
Place of death Heilbronn