Emil Schüller

Emil Schüller

Emil Schüller (born January 11, 1843 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ); † May 8, 1900 in Koblenz ) was a German lawyer and Lord Mayor of Koblenz from 1888 to 1900 . He was also the representative of his city in the Prussian manor house .

Life and work

Schueller was the son of a notary and studied in Bonn and Heidelberg law . In 1862 he became a corps bow bearer of the Rhenania Bonn . He was first justice of the peace in Velbert and then the first alderman of the city of Krefeld . Schüller was unanimously elected Lord Mayor of Koblenz by the Koblenz City Council and was introduced to the office on April 16, 1888. On October 25, 1899, he was again unanimously re-elected for a second twelve-year term. A year later, however, Schüller died of a heart attack at the age of 57 . He was married to Karola Schüller geb. Bamberger (1871–1926), after whom a street in Koblenz-Lay and the Carolaturm were named. Schüller and his wife are buried in field 15 of the Koblenz main cemetery.

Acting as the Lord Mayor of Koblenz

The twelve-year term of office of Schüller was characterized by a special promotion of the development and the beginning of the rise of the city of Koblenz. So the mayor bought by razing the fortress Koblenz (from 1890) the city walls for 822,000 marks . The settlement area of ​​Koblenz was able to break out of the narrow city limits for the first time and the southern suburb was created south of the wall . After the ramparts were leveled, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring and the Kaiserin-Augusta-Ring (now Friedrich-Ebert-Ring and Moselring) were built in their place. At the place of the Löhrtor the Herz-Jesu-Kirche was built from 1900 and in the area of ​​the Mainzer Tor from 1899, after a donation of 100,000 marks from Julius Wegeler , the municipal festival hall .

The construction of a sewer system (1892), the move of the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium (1894) to a new building, the construction of a gasworks in the Rauental (1897), the inauguration of the Kaiserin-Augusta monument (1896) also fell during his term of office. and the Kaiser Wilhelm I monument at the Deutsches Eck (1897), the construction of a power station at Schützenhof (1898) and the construction of the shipyard on the Moselle and the port facilities there . The demands on the city to implement these projects were very high and put an enormous strain on the city's finances. Then there was the purchase of the old castle in 1897, which he had renovated and then made available to the city ​​savings bank . After the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium had moved, the city administration was able to move to the former Jesuit college in 1895. To this day the building is the town hall of Koblenz .

Schüller also achieved the incorporation of Neuendorf and Lützel on July 1, 1891 into the city of Koblenz. He did not live to see the incorporation of Moselweiss that he had initiated , however; it took place in 1902. After Schüller's death, on November 27, 1900, Karl Ortmann succeeded him in the office of Lord Mayor.

Honors

• 1900: A street in the southern suburb of Koblenz is named "Emil-Schüller-Straße"

literature

• Max Bär : From the history of the city of Koblenz. 1814-1914. Krabbensche Buchdruckerei, Koblenz 1922.
• Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads. People from the city's history - namesake for streets and squares. Verlag für Werbung Blätter GmbH Mülheim-Kärlich, Ed .: Bernd Weber, 2005 (2nd revised and expanded edition).
• Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
  • Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X .
  • Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5 .
• Helmut Kampmann: When stones speak. Memorial plaques and memorial plaques in Koblenz. Fuck-Verlag, Koblenz 1992, p. 16 f. & P. 53 f. ISBN 3-9803142-0-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 15 , 508