Karl Schomburg

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Bust of Schomburg in front of the Ständehaus in Kassel
Schomburg's grave in the old town cemetery in Kassel

Karl (Carl) August Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Schomburg (born October 11, 1791 in Grebenstein ; † July 4, 1841 in Mihla near Eisenach ) was mayor from 1821 to 1834 , lord mayor of Kassel from 1834 to 1841 and president of the Hessian state parliament from 1833 to 1838 .

youth

Schomburg was the son of Johann Anton Schomburg, who initially worked as a doctor in Grebenstein and from 1792 in Bad Karlshafen . Karl Schomburg attended the citizens' school there and later the grammar schools in Saalfeld , where his uncle was ducal councilor, and then from 1805 in Coburg . 1808-1811 he studied at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen jurisprudence . In 1812 he became a member of the Westphalian peace court in Höxter , but soon returned to the University of Göttingen.

Act

In 1814 Schomburg was admitted as a lawyer in the offices of Karlshafen , Trendelburg and Sababurg , in 1816 he became a public prosecutor , with the change of government to Elector Wilhelm II of Hesse in 1821 an assessor at the Kassel regional court .

Mayor and Lord Mayor

In the same year, 1821, Schomburg ran for mayor of the capital and residence of the Electorate, Kassel, and was re-elected to this office annually in the following years. In 1823 he suggested the establishment of a municipal savings bank to give poor people the opportunity to build up reserves. On August 1, 1832, the municipal savings bank opened in the Oberneustädter Rathaus in Kassel. Following their example, others followed in Wolfhagen , Karlshafen and Hofgeismar . In 1830 Schomburg was appointed mayor for life.

With the new Hessian town and community code, Schomburg became mayor in 1834 . He took care of the finances, the drinking water supply , the sewage system , the welfare of the poor and the transport, promoted the school system and the establishment of a midwifery institute .

State politics

The moderately liberal Schomburg was from 1830 until his death by virtue of his office as mayor and lord mayor of Kassel member of the Hessian Estates Assembly , which he chaired in 1832 as Vice President and 1833-1838 as President. In the course of the July Revolution of 1830 , Schomburg presented the elector with a petition from the citizens of the city on September 15, 1830 in the Residenzpalais on Friedrichsplatz in Kassel, calling for a constitution for the electorate. As a member of the constituent assembly of the estates, he and Sylvester Jordan played a key role in drafting the constitution of 1831 , one of the most progressive at the time. It came into force on January 5, 1831.

Further work

Along with Karl Bernhardi , Georg Landau , Dietrich Christoph von Rommel , Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, Schomburg was one of the founding members of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies in 1834 .

Schomburg was also a member of the management of the Hessische Brandkasse .

Honors

  • On December 28, 1834, Schomburg was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Kassel.
  • The Carl Schomburg School in Kassel was named after him.

swell

  • Karl Schomburg: Correspondence and bequests with biographical references , ed. by Karl Bernhardi , Kassel 1845.
  • Hellmut Seier , Ewald Grothe (arrangement): Files and letters from the beginnings of the Hessian constitutional period 1830-1837 , ed. by Hellmut Seier, Marburg 1992.

literature

  • Robert Friderici: Karl Schomburg (1791-1841). Mayor (Lord Mayor) of the City of Kassel . In: Ingeborg Schnack (Ed.): Life pictures from Kurhessen and Waldeck , Volume 5. Marburg 1955, pp. 353–366.
  • Ewald Grothe: Constitution and Constitutional Conflict. The Electorate of Hesse in the first era Hassenpflug ., Berlin 1996.
  • Frank-Roland Klaube: Schomburg, Karl . In: Kassel Lexikon , ed. von der Stadt Kassel, Volume 2. Kassel 2009, p. 201.
  • Karl Schomburg . In: 650 years of the city of Grebenstein 1324–1974 . P. 43.
  • Ellen Weber: Karl Schomburg. Kassel's first mayor. Campaigner for civil liberty and local self-government . Kassel 1982.
  • Karl Wippermann:  Schomburg, Karl August Friedrich Wilhelm Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 238-240.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ NN: Karl Schomburg .
  2. ^ NN: Karl Schomburg .
  3. ^ City partnerships of the city of Kassel. (No longer available online.) City of Kassel, archived from the original on December 29, 2014 ; Retrieved December 6, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadt-kassel.de
  4. ^ NN: Karl Schomburg .
  5. Wolfgang Burgdorf: A world view loses its world. The fall of the old empire and the generation 1806 , Munich 2006, p. 303.
  6. ^ NN: Karl Schomburg .