Ernst Anton Heiliger

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Heiliger's well in the Eilenriede

Ernst Anton Heiliger (born August 1, 1729 in Hanover ; † July 2, 1803 there ) was Mayor of Hanover from 1761 to 1798 .

Life

After studying law in Braunschweig, Leipzig and Göttingen, Heiliger was an auditor in the consistory in Hanover from 1753 to 1755 . In 1755 he was elected city syndic and in 1761 as the successor of Christian Ulrich Grupen as mayor, at the request of many councilors, as Heiliger had rendered outstanding services during the French siege of Hanover in the Seven Years' War . After the end of the war, which revealed that the city ​​fortifications no longer offered contemporary protection, he had them torn down and Georgstrasse built - the beginning of the rapid expansion of the city in the 19th century. His official acts also included improvements in fire protection and poor welfare, a reform of the Altstäder Latin School, the Lyceum , and the establishment of a Freyen drawing school for apprentices . He also wrote the town hall schematism , a description of the most important facilities in the city. In 1798, Heiliger resigned from office. He died on July 2, 1803 in Hanover and was buried in the garden cemetery.

Heiliger was in contact with scholars such as Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and Karl Philipp Moritz , and Johann Carl Fürchtegott Schlegel attested that he had great literary erudition and extraordinary knowledge of the country's history , as evidenced by his private library, which comprises over 7,000 volumes.

The Heiligerstraße with Legend mayor
Epitaph for Ernst Anton Heiliger on the garden church in the garden cemetery

In addition to a street in the city center, a sulfur-containing spring in the Eilenriede was named after him, which he bordered in 1794 and on which he had a stone with inscriptions placed.

The Heiliger family belonged to the so-called pretty families in the 18th and 19th centuries .

literature

  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers , Volume 2, Bremen 1823 , P. 295
  • Johanna May: From the city government to bourgeois local politics. Lines of development of the Hanoverian city policy from 1699 to 1824 , in the series of publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Volume 198, 2000, p. 150ff.
  • Horst Kruse: Estates and government - antipodes. The Calenberg-Göttingischen land estates around 1715-1802 , in the series sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , volume 121, p. 250f.
  • Klaus Mlynek : SAINTS, (1) Ernst Anton]. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 158, online via Google books
  • Klaus Mlynek: Saint, Ernst Anton. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 279.

Web links

Commons : Ernst Anton Heiliger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also Hans-Carl Hauptmeyer: Die Residenzstadt, in: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar Röhrbein (Ed.): Geschichte der Stadt Hannover , 2 vol., Hannover 1992, vol. 1, pp. 137–264, here p. 231 .
  2. ↑ See Heiliger's letter to Lichtenberg , Hanover, August 1772, in: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Briefwechsel, ed. by Ulrich Joost and Albrecht Schöne, Vol. 1, Munich 1983, p. 134.
  3. ^ See the letter from Moritz to Heiliger dated September 9, 1780, printed by Anneliese Klingenberg: Two letters from Karl Philipp Moritz to Hanover, in: Heide Hollmer (Ed.): Karl Philipp Moritz, Munich 1993, pp. 10-14, here p. 12.
  4. ^ Johann Carl Fürchtegott Schlegel, Church and Reformation History of Northern Germany and the Hanoverian States, 3 vols., Hanover 1828–1832, vol. 3, p. 446 .
  5. ^ Hans Werner Dannowski : Hanover. Far from near. Out and about in districts, Hannover 2002, p. 37.
  6. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Pretty families. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 310
personal data
SURNAME Saint, Ernst Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1803
Place of death Hanover