Wilhelm Franz von Hiddessen
Wilhelm Franziskus Joseph Xaverius von Hiddessen (born October 15, 1768 in Warburg , † March 31, 1853 in Salzkotten ) was Go- and Freegrave in Warburg, member of the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia , mayor of Warburg and district administrator of the Warburg district .
Life
He came from the old Warburg patrician von Hiddessen family , who lived in a large city palace on Unterstrasse. His father, Petrus Ignatius von Hiddessen, had acquired the Go- und Freirafenamt , as the judge's office was then called, for the Warburg district for 700 thalers with the permission of the Prince-Bishop of Paderborn . His mother was Henriette Wüstenberg.
In 1787, he inherited the office of Go and Freeman from his father, who died early, but had to complete his studies first. On August 19, 1792, he married Maria Vüller's daughter, a merchant, in Paderborn. In 1796 he took up the post of "High Prince Freygrave" in Warburg. His duties also included the legal supervision of the Warburg city council, which he convened and confirmed and which he attended meetings.
After the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of February 25, 1803 and the secularization of the Paderborn Monastery , Warburg was occupied by Prussian troops on August 2, 1803 and von Hiddessen was appointed by the new government as the Royal Prussian Justice and Police Director for Warburg. Due to the previous wars and looting, the city only had 2011 inhabitants.
In 1807 the former bishopric became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia . Von Hiddessen knew how to quickly establish good contact with the new French government. King Jérôme Bonaparte appointed him councilor of war and chamberlain to Queen Catherine of Württemberg in 1808 . In addition, he became Maire ( mayor ) of the city and canton of Warburg and a member of the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia . When the French government suddenly fled Kassel after the Battle of Leipzig in 1813, he was commissioned to bring Jérôme's crown treasure to Paris . He later gave back to the city of Warburg the valuable rifle jewelery made by the Warburg silversmith Antonius Eisenhoit , which he had acquired privately from the assets of the guilds and guilds confiscated by the French .
After the Congress of Vienna , on August 8, 1815, he submitted a request to the new District President Karl von der Horst to transfer the Warburg District Office . It was initially only provisional in 1816. On April 8, 1817 he was officially appointed Royal Prussian District Administrator of the Warburg district.
He was also mayor of the city of Warburg. However, the city was so impoverished that, according to a report of the Royal Prussian Regional and City Court of June 11, 1822, which he requested, "there is an enormous mortgage debt burden on the real estate of the majority of the subjects" and "almost no one is left without execution payments performs ". Among other things, the city had to sell the former Old Town Hall to private individuals in 1825 .
About von Hiddessen's apparently very idiosyncratic administration as mayor and district administrator, about which he left hardly any documents, there were later several lawsuits and lawsuits in which the city asserted claims for damages. In 1830 he was released from civil service early. He left the district office to his son Wilhelm Otto von Hiddessen and saw his suspension from the office in 1840 and the foreclosure auction of the family property in 1847.
He died on March 31, 1853 in Salzkotten.
literature
- Jochen Lengemann : Parliaments in Hesse 1808–1813. Biographical handbook of the Imperial Estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the Estates Assembly of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. Frankfurt a. M. 1991, p. 146.
- Franz Mürmann: The historical development of the city of Warburg since the first Prussian occupation (...) , in: The city of Warburg 1036 - 1986, Warburg 1986
- Ms. Quick: The district of Warburg and its first six district administrators , in: Warburger district calendar 1921, Warburg 1920
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Individual evidence
Wilhelm Franz von Hiddessen | Adam Rinteln | Heinrich Fischer | Wilhelm Schmidt | Leopold Wiegand | Ewald Röper | Franz Wilhelm von Schildt | Paul Heinrich Lipps | August Dissen | Otto Schlötel | Robert Peters | Friedrich Becker | Anton Bohlen | Franz Mürmann | Heribert Schlinker | Josef Dierkes | Paul Mohr | Walter Hellmuth | Michael Stickeln
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hiddessen, Wilhelm Franz von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hiddessen, Wilhelm Franziskus Joseph Xaverius von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Freeman in Warburg, member of the imperial estates in the Kingdom of Westphalia and district administrator of the Warburg district |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1853 |
| Place of death | Salzkotten |