Charles Rupied
Charles Rupied (born September 30, 1762 in Lunéville ; born Charles Joseph Rupied ; † February 12, 1824 in Alt-Saarbrücken ) was a businessman , local politician and the last French mayor of Alt-Saarbrücken (1814-1815).
Origin and life
His father was the Lorraine treasurer Charles François Julien Rupied. He worked as a merchant in Saarbrücken from 1798 and married Madeleine geb. Grandidier from his hometown. Since 1805 he held the salt monopoly for the Saarbrücken area.
Sixty years after his death, an honorary grave was erected for Charles Rupied in the Alt-Saarbrücken cemetery in 1884 .
Public offices
At the end of the First Coalition War , Saarbrücken became a canton municipality under French administration in the Département de la Sarre, established in 1798 . Charles Rupied was appointed on November 6, 1804 to the 1st alderman (French adjoint ) in the city council. The Prussians had barely regained the upper hand for a short time in the turmoil of the Wars of Liberation, when they were dismissed by the Allied occupying forces in March 1814. On July 9, 1814, the French reinstated him and appointed him provisional mayor ( Maire ) on September 23, 1814 , his inauguration followed on December 3, 1814. On December 24, 1814 he was sworn in in Sarreguemines . After the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna up to June 9, 1815, the influence of France was again reduced to the borders of 1790, Saarbrücken finally fell to Prussia. Rupied acknowledged this development on July 12, 1815 with his resignation.
Honors
Member of the Saarbrücken casino company
literature
- Hanns Klein: short biographies of the mayors of Saarbrücken ; in: Journal for the history of the Saar region, 19th century, Historical Association for the Saar region , Saarbrücken 1971, pp. 513-514
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Cemetery Alt-Saarbrücken on the website of the Saarbrücker Friedhöfe (last accessed on March 16, 2014)
Jacob Röchling (1798–1799) | Ludwig Schmidtborn (1799–1800) | Phillipp von Mandell (1800–1804) | Sebastian Bruch (1804–1814) | Heinrich Böcking (1814) | Karl Lauckhard (1814) | Charles Rupied (1814-1815)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rupied, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rupied, Charles Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Merchant, local politician, mayor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luneville |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1824 |
| Place of death | Old Saarbrücken |