Eduard Teuchert

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Eduard Teuchert (born September 16, 1805 in Ottendorf, (Polish: Ocice ) near Bunzlau ; † March 11, 1883 in Gleiwitz ) was a German lawyer and long-time First Mayor of Gleiwitz.

Life

Teuchert was the son of a tenant from Ottendorf, near Bunzlau, in Lower Silesia . His full first name is Eduard, Ferdinand, Hermann. He spent his childhood in rural surroundings. After attending school and graduating from the grammar school in Glogau , he served as a one-year volunteer in the military in Crossen from 1824 to 1825 .

After a short time he gave up his first training for a higher career in forestry and began studying law in Halle , Jena and Breslau in 1826 . Here he came into contact with the fraternity movement, which had been banned since 1819, and was enthusiastic about their national-liberal, democratic ideals, to which he later remained lifelong, at least in part. During his studies in Breslau he was one of the leading group of those who, in December 1828, revived the old Breslau fraternity Arminia, which had been banned since 1819 . With this he came into the sights of the state of Prussia , which in the pre-March period harshly pursued such political activity, even beyond his studies. When he was employed in 1830, first as an auscultator and later as a trainee lawyer at the court in Sprottau and at the Higher Regional Court in Glogau until 1834, it was already clear that his political engagement precluded a legal career at Prussian courts. The appointment as an officer of the Landwehr after graduating due to his military service as a year old did not change anything, although this was a very important and career-promoting process at the time. In 1834 he became mayor in Polkwitz and in 1835 in Lüben . A pending criminal case at the higher court because of membership in the fraternity movement ultimately remained without charge. In 1837 he became mayor of Bunzlau and held this office until 1847. As mayor, he was also elected to the board of the Lower Silesian Railway Company. Then he was a council member responsible for the police in the city administration of Glogau . In all of these offices he was noticeable for his conduct, which was unusual at the time and striving for justice. In Glogau he got into an open conflict with the noble First Mayor during the revolutionary times from 1848 to 1849 because of his alleged sympathy for the bourgeois-democratic rebels. The call-up during mobilization from 1848 to 1850 as commander of a Landwehr company therefore seems logical. In the years 1851, 1854 and 1855 he had to answer for disciplinary reasons and was given administrative penalties for insubordination when exercising his office. It is not known whether this was the reason why he was transferred to the Upper Silesian city ​​of Gleiwitz in 1854 .

At that time, Gleiwitz was still a backward city, but its upswing was already clearly evident through mining and metallurgical industry and further industrialization. As early as 1846, the construction of a railway connection from Zabrze via Gleiwitz to Breslau began . As the first mayor, he gradually made great contributions to urban development. The communal self-government he initiated and the improved urban infrastructure were decisive steps. His work was not immediately recognized by the royal government. Despite all his successes in communal areas, he was initially met with mistrust, so that even his re-election in 1866 almost failed. The cause was political activity in the opposition, liberal German Progressive Party , of which he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1863 to 1866 .

In the period from 1870 to 1871 Teuchert was plagued by illnesses, so that he let the official business rest. However, he took up the service again voluntarily until 1875 and died on March 13, 1883. He found his final resting place in the old cemetery in Gleiwitz, in Coselner Strasse.

The successors in office carried on the business in his sense and Gleiwitz developed into a modern industrial and large city. Today, in Gliwice, Poland, there are still visible traces of his leadership in many places.

Changes in Gleiwitz during the term "Teuchert", (selection)

Teuchert's merits are primarily based on the creation of suitable municipal structures for urban development and the implementation of proactive, appropriate measures. Resolutions and rules for the acquisition of land were passed and implemented, the city building master's office was created and the first development plans were drawn up. The following public buildings were built or specifically planned under his leadership:

  • Expansion of all elementary schools
  • Protestant church
  • synagogue
  • District Court
  • court House
  • Municipal hospital
  • Craftsmen's training school or provincial trade school
  • Uhlan barracks for the Uhlan regiment "von Katzler" (Silesian) No. 2
  • Cemetery in Coselner Str.

Honors

In the southwest of the city of Gleiwitz, the former Neue Welt-Strasse was renamed Teuchert Strasse in 1876, while Teuchert was still alive. This unusual honor results from the fact that his work was particularly impressively reflected in this city quarter.

Teuchert was awarded the Red Eagle Order , IV. Class and later III. Class excellent.

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Footnotes / individual references

  1. ↑ B. Holtz (edit.): Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934/38, Vol. 4/2 , March 30, 1848 - October 27, 1858, register of persons : Teuchert. Acta Borrussica, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Ed.), P. 655, Olms Verlags AG, Hildesheim, 2003, ISBN 3-487-11825-4 . (Note: Teuchert is mostly mentioned in the literature only with the first names Eduard and sometimes Hermann .)
  2. ↑ W. Schmidt: Life fates. Persecuted Silesian fraternities in the early 19th century . Würzburg Medical History Communications, No. 22, 2003, p. 470, line 14
  3. ↑ see also: Hermann Eduard Teuchert from Polckwitz, Province of Silesia . Secret State Archive Prussian Cultural Heritage, I. HA Rep. 97, No. 3644
  4. ^ Lower Silesian Railway . General Prussian State Newspaper, March 11, 1842, Berlin
  5. ↑ J. Rusinowska-Trojca: The urban development until 1876 . Urban planning and residential architecture of the 19th century in Gleiwitz (Gliwice) , inaugural dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität Bonn, 2005, section 5.2, pp. 35–39, p. 39, 1st paragraph
  6. ^ J. Rusinowska-Trojca: The development plan of 1876/77 . Urban planning and residential architecture of the 19th century in Gleiwitz (Gliwice) , inaugural dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität Bonn, 2005, Section 5.3, S: 39–47
  7. ↑ Example: Construction of the municipal gas works in 1861.
  8. ↑ W. Schmidt: Life fates. Persecuted Silesian fraternities in the early 19th century . Würzburg medical history reports, No. 22, 2003, p. 470; 1st paragraph, penultimate and last sentence
  9. ↑ B. Holtz (edit.): Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38 , Vol. 4/2, March 30, 1848 - October 27, 1858, register of persons : Teuchert. Acta Borrussica, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Ed.), P. 655, Olms Verlags AG, Hildesheim, 2003, ISBN 3-487-11825-4 . Note: MdA = Member of the House of Representatives, DFP = German Progressive Party.
  10. ↑ The old cemetery was replaced by the central cemetery in 1924 .
  11. ↑ J. Rusinowska-Trojca: The urban development until 1876 . Urban planning and residential architecture of the 19th century in Gleiwitz (Gliwice) , inaugural dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität Bonn, 2005, section 5.2, p. 40, first paragraph
  12. ↑ Three deceased city leaders from Gleiwitz . Upper Silesia in the picture. No. 44, October 29, 1926 1st column, 15th line vu
  13. ↑ Today this street is called in Gliwice: ul. Zygmunta Starego.
  14. ↑ Personnel Chronicle . Official Gazette of the Royal Government of Opole, No. 4, January 22, 1875; P. 23, point 81
  15. ↑ Three deceased city leaders . Oberschlesien im Bild, No. 44, October 29, 1926, p. 5, 1st column, 5th line vu
personal data
SURNAME Teuchert, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teuchert, Eduard Ferdinand Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, Lord Mayor of Gleiwitz
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottendorf, near Bunzlau
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1883
Place of death Gliwice