Daniel Heinrich Mumm von Schwarzenstein

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Daniel Heinrich Mumm von Schwarzenstein (1818–1890)
Debt of the City of Frankfurt dated May 19, 1877 signed by the Lord Mayor Daniel Heinrich Mumm.
Grave of Daniel Heinrich Mumm von Schwarzenstein in the main cemetery

Daniel Heinrich Mumm , from 1873 Mumm von Schwarzenstein (born December 18, 1818 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 29, 1890 ibid) was a German lawyer and local politician. From 1868 to 1880 he was the first mayor after the annexation of Frankfurt by Prussia . The Mumm family had not made use of their nobility for a long time. On March 31, 1873, the Mumm family was newly ennobled by Schwarzenstein .

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Mumm came from a long-established Frankfurt family. His father was Wilhelm Mumm (1774-1832), who married Marie Schlösser (1779-1858) from Elberfeld in 1797 in Barmen and founded the Wilhelm Mumm & Co. bank in 1805 . Mumm attended grammar school in Frankfurt am Main and studied law in Berlin and Heidelberg . After receiving his doctorate in 1840, he settled as a lawyer in his hometown. On June 3, 1851, he married the very wealthy Klara (Clara) Kinen (born February 19, 1832 in Frankfurt am Main, † September 19, 1877 in Paris), daughter of the Frankfurt banker Georg Kinen and the banker's daughter Emilie Jordan. The couple had four children with Georg (* 1858), Willi (* 1865), Maria (* 1854) and Anna (* 1860; † 1896).

During a trip to France in 1877, Clare broke her leg and died in Paris during a typhus epidemic . Daniel Heinrich mourned a lot and died a widower.

From 1856 Mumm was in the city service as a judge at the city court, later at the court of appeal. On December 4, 1865, he was elected to the Senate of the Free City of Frankfurt by ballot .

After the annexation of the Free City of Frankfurt by Prussia on October 2, 1866, he endeavored to balance and adapt the urban situation to the new framework conditions established by the Municipal Constitution Act of March 25, 1867 and the constitutional incorporation on October 1, 1867 were placed in the Prussian state. On November 6, 1867, the newly elected city council unanimously proposed to the Prussian king that Senator Mumm be appointed First Mayor for a term of 12 years . He was inducted into office on February 27, 1868. From 1869 he was officially allowed to call himself Lord Mayor .

Mumm was also elected to the Prussian mansion on May 15, 1868 as the representative of the city of Frankfurt . In March 1869 was Frankfurt recess agreed in which the Kingdom of Prussia and the city of Frankfurt fell to the assets and liabilities of the former Free City of Frankfurt in a public part of Prussia, and a local part that remained of the city, apart translated . With this advantageous settlement for the city , Mumm secured the financing of an extensive investment program that he initiated at the beginning of his tenure. In addition to the reconstruction of the imperial cathedral , which burned down on August 15, 1867 , this included numerous new buildings, including the municipal market hall , the city ​​archive and the new building of the Dreikönigskirche . The long-distance water pipeline from the Vogelsberg to the city and the construction of an alluvial sewer system were used to expand the infrastructure in the rapidly growing city, and planning began for a city slaughterhouse and the canalization of the Lower Main. To improve the traffic conditions in the cramped city center, the Zeil was extended to the east and the openings in Kaiserstraße and Weißfrauenstraße were created. After the old bridge had met the requirements for centuries , the Eiserne Steg , the Untermain- and Obermainbrücke were built in quick succession .

In 1871 the Peace of Frankfurt was signed, which ended the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 . Bismarck had deliberately placed the peace negotiations in Frankfurt in order to reconcile the citizenship with the forced incorporation into the Prussian state and the loss of urban sovereignty .

The start of the founding period brought a rapid change for Frankfurt from the trading and financial center of southern Germany to a Prussian industrial city, which was accompanied by strong population growth. In the course of Mumm's tenure, the population of Frankfurt rose from 78,000 to over 130,000. The building program put enormous strain on the city budget. The new construction of the Frankfurt Opera House , which the art-loving mayor had suggested to the city council on December 14, 1869 , brought a special burden . The construction costs rose from originally estimated 1.2 million to over 6 million marks.

Mumm cultivated an autocratic leadership style and ignored objections and criticism from the city council. He was also reserved towards his magistrate colleagues. After several violent arguments, he only communicated with the city council in writing. In his annoyance, he tried to persuade the ministry to make decisions that interfered with the city's self-government and even change its electoral law. This ultimately led to the city council not nominating him for re-election. The Frankfurt national poet Friedrich Stoltze scoffed: "Mumm von Schwarzenstein is called because he did not find the Philosopher's Stone."

He was succeeded on February 26, 1880 by Johannes Miquel , whose first task was to consolidate the city's finances. After the end of his tenure, Mumm von Schwarzenstein devoted himself above all to maintaining the city's musical life. For many years he was chairman of the Frankfurt Museum Society and chairman of the board of trustees of the Dr. Hoch's Conservatory .

Daniel Heinrich Mumm von Schwarzenstein is buried in the main cemetery. The grave was by the magistrate of the city to honor grave explained.

His great-nephew was Herbert Mumm von Schwarzenstein , a grandson Georg Mumm von Schwarzenstein (1903–1983), whose wife Christa-Mette Mumm von Schwarzenstein (1917–2011) was a long-time Frankfurt city councilor.

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  1. ^ Prussian nobility renewal, see: Mumm von Schwarzenstein, Hermann Jakob Georg. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ https://www.fnp.de/frankfurt/daniel-heinrich-mumm-schwarzenstein-vergenz-fast-vergessen-10432303.html
  3. ↑ Law on the dispute between the state and the city of Frankfurt am Main from 5./10. March 1869 . (No. 7344). In: Law Collection for the Royal Prussian States . Berlin March 5, 1869, p. 379-392 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Mumm von Schwarzenstein, Daniel Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daniel Heinrich von Mumm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1890
Place of death Frankfurt am Main