Carl Siegel (lawyer)

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Carl Siegel , also Karl Siegel , (born August 21, 1832 in Bruchsal , † March 9, 1896 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German lawyer and secret councilor.

origin

His parents were the General Staff Doctor and Councilor Dr. med. Joseph Siegel (born October 5, 1790; † March 30, 1870) and his wife Magdalena Heiligenthal (1807–1880). His brothers were Adolf Bernhard (1828–1905) Dr. med., from 1862 spa doctor in Badenweiler, and Heinrich (1830–1899) Dr. iur., legal historian and from 1857 professor for German law at the University of Vienna.

Carl Siegel studied law in Heidelberg and Göttingen, where he became a member of the Hannovera fraternity in the winter semester of 1852/53 . He passed the state examination in the Grand Duchy of Baden .

Life and work

After his legal clerkship, he entered the judiciary and was a district judge in Mannheim in 1864. In 1866 he was taken over into the general internal administration and was initially a bailiff (deputy district administrator) at the district office (district) Mannheim. In 1868 he took on state duties as an official member of the government in Schönau in the Black Forest . Promoted to Oberamtmann, he was head of the Villingen district office from 1872 to 1876 .

Carl Siegel (1832–1896) - memorial stone on Davosweg in Pforzheim

After a brief activity as a state official in Staufen and Achern, he headed the Pforzheim district office from 1878 to 1883 and was also city director (not mayor) of this city, i.e. H. he was responsible for state tasks in Pforzheim, which primarily included the police department.

In 1883 he moved to the position of head of the Mannheim district office and also became city director in Mannheim; there he also held the office of "Grand Ducal Court Theater Commissioner". In 1887 he was transferred to the Ministry of the Interior of the Grand Duchy of Baden in Karlsruhe and promoted to Ministerialrat.

Immediately he was given the office of state commissioner for the districts of Freiburg, Lörrach and Offenburg with residence in Freiburg. In 1893 he was promoted to the Secret Upper Government Council. When the Dreisam in Freiburg im Breisgau caused severe flooding in spring 1896 and the bridge at Schwabentor was torn away as a result, Carl Siegel and his colleague Leopold Sonntag wanted to find out about the extent of the damage on March 9, 1896. There was an accident; both officers fell into the flood and drowned.

Honors

  • Zähringer Order of the Lion (Knight's Cross 2nd Class with Oak Leaves)
  • Prussian Order of the Crown 2nd Class
  • Persian Order of the Sun and Lions
  • Memorial stone on Davosweg in Pforzheim with the inscription: To the loyal civil servant, citizen friend and supporter of our association, City Director Carl Siegel 1878–1883. In memory of the Pforzheim Beautification Association.
  • Sandstone plaque on the tower of the Schwabentor in Freiburg im Breisgau, on which it is pointed out that Carl Siegel and Leopold Sonntag lost their lives in the course of their duties during the flood in 1896

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 431-432.
  • Karl Siegel , in: Friedrich von Weech, Albert Krieger (eds.): Badische Biographien , Part V, Heidelberg 1906, pp. 729–732 ( digitized version )
  • Alphabetical list of active court servants and active civil servants of the upper classes of the salary tariff of the Grand Duchy of Baden as of November 1894.
  • Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 531 f .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the fraternity Hannovera Göttingen, 1848–1998 , Düsseldorf 1998, page 17
  2. ↑ March 7, 1887: City director Karl Siegel is transferred from here to Freiburg. ( Memento from August 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Photo of the torn away bridge
  4. ↑ http://www.frsw.de/littenweiler/wiehre1.htm#Schwabentorbr%C3%BCcke%20-%20Immer%20wieder%20Zerst%C3%B6rungen%20durch%20Hochwasser
  5. ↑ http://www.pfenz.de/w/images/7/7b/Carl_Siegel.jpg (photo)
  6. ↑ How did towers and figures get on the Schwabentorbrücke? badische-zeitung.de, accessed February 21, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Siegel, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siegel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and secret councilor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchsal
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1896
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau