Friedrich Griebel (Pfennig Master)

Shrine in memory of Friedrich Griebel with his portrait painted by Otto Speckter , Dithmarscher Landesmuseum

Friedrich Carl Griebel (born December 22, 1788 in Meldorf ; † November 13, 1861 in Heide ) was a penny master of the Norderdithmarschen landscape .

Live and act

As a member of the Griebel family, Friedrich Griebel was a son of the Meldorfer High Court attorney Ernst Leopold Griebel (born January 1, 1740 in Meldorf ; † June 23, 1807 in Meldorf) and his wife Beata Amalia, née Johannsen (* 1748, † 1788). The maternal grandfather was the Meldorfer parish bailiff Johann Matthias Jakob Johannsen (1709–1756) and the father-in-law of his brother Anton (1782–1855), who took over his position in 1813. The second and oldest brother Leopold Matthias Griebel (1781-1858) worked as a pastor.

Griebel attended the Meldorfer School of Academics and began studying law at the University of Kiel in the summer semester of 1806. In the summer of 1809 he passed the exam at the Glückstadt Higher Court. After that he lived as a resident lawyer in Heide. He then worked as a secretary in the administration of the Norderdithmarschen landscape. In 1825 he was elected pfennig master by the council of state chiefs. When he took over the office, he had to pay a deposit of 10,000 Reichstalers due to a regulation from 1771. The king's government also appointed him inspector of the imposed kings . The provincial committee commissioned him with the maintenance of the debt and pledge protocol.

Griebel performed his offices impeccably and self-confidently and thus achieved a great reputation in the landscape. As the king's chief official, the bailiff increasingly tried to enlarge his area of ​​competence. Nevertheless, Griebel managed to keep his office in the long-standing key position in Norderdithmarschen's self-government. From 1744 the bailiff was supposed to take over the chairmanship of the state assembly. In fact, Griebel continued to prepare and lead the meetings himself.

From 1852 to 1863 the governor Carl Nicolaus Diedrich Hansen held office, who wanted to restrict the powers of the penny master Griebel as in Süderdithmarschen. Therefore, the conflict between Griebel and the royal senior official escalated. Griebel became a symbol of the landscape that wanted to preserve its self-administration rights.

At the beginning of a meeting of the college of provincial leaders on November 13, 1861, the governor emphasized that he was entitled to the right to preside. He also complained repeatedly that submissions, commission reports, etc. similar not to him, but to Griebel. This was followed by a heated discussion about Griebel's maintenance of the debt record that he led for the dike in the area of ​​the Norddeich-Schlüper outer dike area. Griebel died during this debate due to a heart attack. According to the minutes of the meeting, his last sentence was: “Protect the rights of the landscape!”. After being reported in the press, these last words became an often-elected appeal during the last few years of self-government.

The Norderdithmarschen landscape commissioned a portrait of Griebels from Otto Speckter and paid for his costs. The provincial council installed it in their meeting room in a kind of shrine behind two oak doors. During meetings, the doors to commemorate Griebel were opened like an altar. The shrine is now in the Dithmarscher Landesmuseum .

family

On March 26, 1822, Griebel married Louise Ernestine Johannsen in Heide (* August 18, 1797; † March 24, 1875 there). She was a daughter of Norderdithmarscher Landvogts Christian Matthias Jakob Johannsen (born January 24, 1747 in Meldorf; † August 20, 1813 in Heide) and his second wife Agneta Sophia Rahbek (born November 18, 1770 in Copenhagen ; † December 11, 1837) .

The Griebel couple had two daughters who died young and their son Theodor Griebel (1838–1875), who was a lawyer and was a political leader in the Augustburg movement until after the duchies were annexed to Prussia .

literature

• Dietrich Korth: Griebel, Friedrich . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9-1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pp. 129-131.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Description and illustration on museen nord , accessed on March 23, 2018