Friedrich August Wilhelm Cornelius

Friedrich Cornelius (born July 16, 1817 at Hessenstein Castle near Frankenberg (Eder) ; † August 16, 1885 in Fulda ), was a German administrative lawyer, first in the Electorate of Hesse , then in the Kingdom of Prussia .

Life

Friedrich Cornelius was born the son of a forester. He was reformed creed . From 1837 to 1841 he studied law at the Philipps University in Marburg . In 1837 he became a member of the Corps Teutonia Marburg . On September 3, 1841, he passed the first state examination in law in Kassel .

Judiciary

In December of the same year he became a legal intern at the Rosenthal Justice Office in what is now the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . A judicial office in Kurhessen at that time corresponded to the later district court . From 1843 to 1846 he was a legal intern at the Kirchenhain Justice Office . In 1849 he moved to the Hünfeld Justice Office . He stayed there until 1852.

District Administrator

On March 18, 1852 he became district administrator of the Marburg district . After just under a year, on February 27, 1853, he became district administrator of the Hanau district , from December 2, 1853, after an administrative reform, under the title of police director.

He survived the annexation of Electorate Hesse by Prussia in 1866 unscathed and was now a royal Prussian district administrator. On March 22, 1868 he was appointed district administrator of the Fulda district. From 1867 Fulda developed into a center of German Catholicism . As district administrator and chief of the police in Fulda, Cornelius also had the task of reporting to his authorities about what was happening here. The importance of this task increased steadily in the developing Kulturkampf . The conflict also presented itself personally: Cornelius as the Reformed representative of the state on the one hand, the Mayor of Fulda Franz Rang , a central politician close to the Roman Catholic Church . Cornelius himself was probably not interested in the conflict. He tried to mitigate its effects. But as a civil servant he was bound by the instructions and had the minor seminary in 1873, in 1874, the seminary , 1875, the Franciscan Fraunberg , the Benedictine Monastery and the house of the English Ladies include, among other facilities. The asset management of these institutions, as well as that for the episcopal assets during the Sedis vacancy from 1875–1881, was in his hands. He was also involved in numerous commissions that administered or promoted educational and health institutions. Another central task of Cornelius was the integration of the Fulda district into the Prussian administration. From mid-1866 to the end of 1872, 2,691 new laws and ordinances had to be implemented.

Cornelius retired as District Administrator of Fulda on April 1, 1883.

family

Cornelius married Wilhelmine Stiernberg (or Stierberg) on June 7, 1849 . The marriage produced three sons.

Honors

• Wilhelm Order 4th class (1861)
• Privy Councilor (Prussia) on retirement

literature

• Georg-Wilhelm Hanna (edit.): The district of Hanau and its district administrators . Ed .: Kreissparkasse Hanau . Hanau 1989, p. 19.
• Winfried Jestaedt: District Administrator Cornelius and his work in the Fulda district . In: Buchenblätter (supplement to the Fulda newspaper ). Vol. 33 (1960), No. 26 v. December 31, 1960, p. 101; Vol. 34 (1961), No. 1, v. January 5, 1961, pp. 6f; No. 2, v. January 14, 1961, p. 8.
• Thomas Klein: Senior civil servants in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945 = sources and research on Hessian history 70. Ed. Hessische Historische Kommission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hessen . Darmstadt / Marburg 1988. ISBN 3-88443-159-5

Web links

• Cornelius, Friedrich August Wilhelm. Hessian biography. (As of July 24, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theodor von Heppe, Winfried Speitkamp (ed.): Municipal constitution in Kurhessen: A writing by the Kassel government trainee Theodor von Heppe from 1826 . Volume 69, self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and the Historical Commission for Hesse 1987, ISBN 9783884431580 , p. 107.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Kösener corps lists 1910, 166 , 149
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Hanna: Hanau district .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jestaedt: District Administrator Cornelius . Beech leaves 1961, No. 1, p. 6.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Electoral Hessian Court and State Handbook 1843, p. 148 ( digitized version )
6. ↑ Electoral Hessian Court and State Handbook 1852, p. 152 ( digitized version )
7. ↑ Electoral Hessian Court and State Handbook 1853, p. 196 ( digitized version )
8. ↑ Electoral Hessian Court and State Handbook 1854, p. 216 ( digitized version )
9. ↑ District of Fulda administrative history and district list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke); Hanna: Hanau district .
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Jestaedt: District Administrator Cornelius . Beech leaves 1961, No. 2, p. 8.
11. ^ Jestaedt: District Administrator Cornelius . Beech leaves 1961, No. 1, p. 7.
12. ^ Jestaedt: District Administrator Cornelius . Buchenblätter 1961, No. 2, p. 8, quoted here by Philipp Losch : History of the Electorate of Hesse , p. 431.
13. ↑ Electoral Hessian Court and State Handbook 1866, p. 40 ( digitized version )