Clemens Joseph Adams

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Clemens Joseph Adams

Clemens Joseph Adams (born December 31, 1831 in Koblenz , † October 29, 1876 ) was a German local politician. He was the first mayor of the city of Honnef (today Bad Honnef ) after regaining their communal independence in 1862.

Life

origin

Adams was the fourth son of the lawyer Franz Peter Adams (1800–1868), member of the preliminary parliament and the Frankfurt National Assembly from 1848, and his wife Elisabeth née Lenné, a sister of the garden architect Peter Joseph Lenné (1789–1866). One of his brothers was Franz Adams the Younger (1828-1891).

Career

By 1855 at the latest, Adams settled in Honnef, where he became the owner of the winery. There, the Cologne banker Philipp Joseph Lenné (1787–1843), an uncle on his mother's side, owned the Hotel Klein (corner of Hauptstrasse / Schülgenstrasse) and had a house built on its back site in 1829 (Bernhard-Klein-Strasse 16). Adam's father or himself acquired this property in the 1840s or 1850s and has been called Villa Adams since then . Adams soon became involved in local politics in Honnef, was elected a local councilor and on March 8, 1857 the mayor's councilor of the Königswinter mayor . From June 11, 1858, he was deputy mayor, and in 1860 he was elected mayor of Honnef. When Honnef received town charter in 1862 and left the mayor's office of Königswinter as its own mayor, thus regaining its communal independence, Adams was elected mayor on October 28, 1862 with 13 out of 19 votes; its ceremonial introduction took place on December 29, 1862. After his term of office he was elected by the city council for a further twelve years from January 1, 1875. In November and December 1875 Adams was in his capacity as mayor on the basis of a decree of the district administrator, which was then withdrawn, of Catholic church leaders of Honnef. He was unable to complete his second term due to his early death after a long illness.

“[Adam's] willingness to help the less well-off was paired with a strict sense of justice, so that a truly patriarchal relationship developed between him and the community and he was respected and loved equally by rich and poor. Only rarely did he come into contradiction with a section of the city council, but then he firmly defended his point of view against the somewhat backward views of individual, otherwise staid city fathers (...). "

- Johann Joseph Brungs (1925)

Family:
Adams was married to Albertine, born Riesberg, from 1860. The marriage had eleven children, three of whom died at a young age.

Death and memory

Adams was buried on November 1, 1876 in what is now the Old Cemetery in his hometown.

Villa Adams later served as a guest house and accommodated famous guests, including Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her mother Emma as regent in 1892 . Today there is a kindergarten on the site of the villa; in his garden there is a Lebanon cedar that can still be traced back to Lenné and is a designated natural monument. The former firing trench in Honnef was named after Adams, first in Clemensstrasse and later in Clemens-Adams-Strasse .

literature

  • Hans Adams: From the family history of the first mayor of the city of Honnef Clemens Joseph Adams . In: August Haag (ed.): Bad Honnef am Rhein. Contributions to the history of our home community on the occasion of their city elevation 100 years ago. Verlag der Honnefer Volkszeitung, Bad Honnef 1962, pp. 65–67. ( Amendment from 1986 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hans Adams: From the family history of the first mayor of the city of Honnef Clemens Joseph Adams .
  2. ↑ a b c J [ohann] J [oseph] Brungs : The city of Honnef and its history . Verlag des St. Sebastianus-Schützenverein, Honnef 1925, p. 189 (reprinted 1978 by Löwenburg-Verlag, Bad Honnef).
  3. ↑ a b c Hubert Wüsten: The Catholic community of Honnef in the last hundred years . In: August Haag (ed.): Bad Honnef am Rhein. Contributions to the history of our home community on the occasion of their city elevation 100 years ago. Verlag der Honnefer Volkszeitung, Bad Honnef 1962, pp. 151–165 (here: p. 151).
  4. ↑ Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Rhöndorf (ed.); August Haag : Pictures from the past of Honnef and Rhöndorf . Complete production JP Bachem, Cologne 1954, p. 96.
  5. ^ Karl Günter Werber : Time leaps: Bad Honnef . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-560-6 , p. 59 .
  6. ^ Karl Günter Werber : Honnefer walks . 2nd revised edition. Verlag Buchhandlung Werber, Bad Honnef 2002, ISBN 3-8311-2913-4 , p. 63 .
  7. ^ Street sign , Wikimedia Commons
personal data
SURNAME Adams, Clemens Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1876