Carl Bernhard von Ibell
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Carl Bernhard von Ibell (born July 8, 1847 in Ems ; † November 22, 1924 in Wiesbaden ) was a German lawyer and notary. From 1883 to 1913 he was Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden.
Life
Ibell came from the Prussian nobility and was born in 1847 as the son of the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg Medical Council and spa doctor in Bad Ems Rudolf von Ibell and his wife Berta, née. Guticke was born in Halle (Saale). His grandfather was the Nassau reformer Carl Friedrich Emil von Ibell .
Ibell lived in Wiesbaden since 1864 and attended preschool and high school in Wiesbaden and Weinheim. From 1867 to 1872 he studied law at the universities of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Georg August University in Göttingen . He became active in the Corps Franconia Munich (1867) and in the Corps Guestphalia Berlin (1869). In the Franco-German War of 1870/71 he took part as a cavalryman . In 1872 he became a trainee lawyer , in 1876 an assessor and assistant at the public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt a. M. In 1878, he in Jena to the Dr. iur. PhD . In the same year he established himself as a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main .
On August 1, 1883, he became First Mayor of Wiesbaden , by the highest (imperial) decree of July 10, 1886 with the title of Lord Mayor. Ibell was made an honorary citizen of Wiesbaden and, at his own request, was retired on April 1, 1913. During his tenure, the population of the city rose - without incorporations - from 53,000 (1886) to 109,000 (1913). Important infrastructure projects during his term of office were the completion of the slaughterhouse and cattle yard (1884, expanded 1897–1900), the new gas stations (1895/98), the royal theater built by the city (1893/94), the power station (1897/98) and the expansion of the city hospital (1904–1907). The employment of school doctors and school dentists, the introduction of agricultural lessons in the elementary schools and the establishment of an infant dairy facility were considered exemplary.
Ibell was a member of the provincial council of the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau, chairman of the state committee of the district association of the administrative district of Wiesbaden and, in his function as mayor, a member of the Prussian manor house.
The city of Wiesbaden donated a grave of honor in the north cemetery , which it still maintains and looks after today.
family
In 1879 Ibell married Clara Versmann, a daughter of the First Mayor of Hamburg Johannes Versmann .
Honors
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- Honorary citizen of Wiesbaden
- A popular forest path in Wiesbaden is named after Ibell.
See also
literature
- 200 semesters of Munich francs . [Munich] 1936, pp. 217–219 (No. 379)
Web links
- Ibell, Carl Bernhard von. Hessian biography. (As of February 5, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 172/359; 7/160
- ↑ Wiesbadener Tagblatt No. 159 of April 1, 1913, p. 3
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SURNAME | Ibell, Carl Bernhard von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and notary, Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden (1883–1913) |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1847 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Ems |
DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1924 |
Place of death | Wiesbaden |