Friedrich Küchler
Friedrich Küchler (born November 16, 1822 in Darmstadt , † January 15, 1898 in Darmstadt) was Provincial Director of the Province of Rheinhessen and an honorary citizen of Mainz .
family
Küchler came from an old Hessian civil servant family. His father Georg Karl Küchler (1773–1854) was a member of the government, his brother Ernst Ludwig was a grand ducal tax council, his half-brother Friedrich was a member of the state parliament and state councilor and his nephew Wilhelm Küchler was mayor of Worms and finance minister of Hesse. The mother, Johanna Marie née Friederich, was the father's second wife.
On July 21, 1856, he married Emilie Elisabethe Georgine Wilhelmine nee Krug (1827–1915) in Darmstadt , daughter of the court president and member of the state parliament Georg Krug .
Life
Küchler studied law at the Universities of Giessen and Heidelberg , where he was a member of the Corps Teutonia and Saxoborussia . In 1856 Küchler became secretary of the Oberstudiendirektion in Darmstadt, 1858 district assessor there, 1867 district councilor in Dieburg , 1874 provincial director of the Starkenburg province in Darmstadt, 1874–77 president of the central office for agriculture and the agricultural associations and president of the agricultural association of the Starkenburg province.
On September 1, 1881, he was appointed provincial director in Mainz as the successor to Ludwig Roeder von Diersburg , and from 1885 onwards with the character of a secret council. In addition, he served as a Hessian unable magnificent territorial commissioner for the imperial fortress Mainz . Because of differences of opinion with the Minister of the Interior about his administration, he said goodbye in 1891, but was appointed President of the Hessian Administrative Court in the same year.
From 1872 Küchler was a member of the National Liberal Fraction of the second Hessian Chamber for the constituency Starkenburg 3 / Höchst (until 1887). In the elections to the Reichstag he was defeated as a candidate for the Center Party of Hesse . From 1893 he was a lifelong member of the I. Chamber of the Hessian Estates. During his official activity in Mainz, he was chairman of the local branch of the German Colonial Association (forerunner of the German Colonial Society ).
Küchler was extremely popular. As a member of the state parliament, his commitment led to the construction of the Mainz road bridge (today Theodor-Heuss-Brücke ). He had also made great contributions to the expansion of the city . In the press he was celebrated as the "father of the Hessian self-government". The city of Mainz made him an honorary citizen in 1891.
Own publications
- The constitutional and administrative law of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , 3rd edition. 1894
literature
- Konrad Fuchs : Life pictures of forgotten Mainz personalities. Krach, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-87439-110-8 .
- Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 230.
- Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 490.
- Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 165
- Wolfgang Balzer: Mainz. Personalities of the city's history. Volume 1: Honorary citizens of Mainz, princes of Mainz, military personalities, Mainz mayors. Kügler, Ingelheim am Rhein 1985, ISBN 3-924124-01-9 , p. 20 f.
- Klaus Dietrich Hoffmann: The history of the province and the administrative district of Rheinhessen. 1816-1985. Verlag der Rheinhessische Druckwerkstätte, Alzey 1985, ISBN 3-87854-047-7 , p. 59 ff.
Web links
- Hennig, Arno. Hessian biography. (As of February 25, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Carl Schmitt (1852–1874) | Theodor Goldmann (1874–1877) | Ludwig Roeder von Diersburg (1877–1881) | Friedrich Küchler (1881–1891) | Karl Rothe (1891–1898) | Maximilian Freiherr von Gagern (1898–1908) | Friedrich von Hombergk zu Vach (1908–1910) | Andreas Breidert (1910–1913) | Wilhelm Best (1913–1922) | Karl Usinger (1922–1929) | Wilhelm Wehner (1929–1937)
Karl Christian Eigenbrodt (1820–1821) | Karl Christian Schweickart (1823–1824) | Johann Friedrich König (1826–1830) | August Emmerling (1832–1834) | Friedrich Bergstrasse (1835–1842) | Christian Zeller (1842–1847) | Reinhard Eigenbrodt (1847–1848) | Ernst Elwert (1848–1849) | Friedrich Hofferberth (1849–1850) | Wilhelm Goldmann (1851–1856) | Otto Zentgraf (1856–1862) | Georg von Wedekind (1862–1866) | Otto Zentgraf (1866–1872) | Friedrich Küchler (1872–1887) | Arnold Bergsträsser (1887–1891) | Karl Scherer (1892-1893) | Georg Haas (1893–1898) | Georg Häusel (1899–1906) | Gottfried Büchner (1906–1911) | Friedrich Hartmann (1911-1918)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Küchler, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Provincial director of the province of Rheinhessen and honorary citizen of Mainz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1898 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |