Friedrich Wilhelm Feldmann
Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Feldmann (born June 24, 1846 in Kommern near Euskirchen , † February 25, 1911 in Bordighera near Ventimiglia , Italy ) was a German construction engineer and contractor , mayor of Wilhelmshaven (1881-1883), mayor (1884-1907) and Honorary citizen of Saarbrücken .
Life
His father was the miner Wilhelm Alexander Feldmann, who was transferred to the Saarbrücken Mining Authority in the year his son was born and therefore moved to the town of St. Johann (Saar), which is adjacent to the city . Friedrich Wilhelm stayed with his mother, of whom nothing is known, initially at his place of birth. There he attended the local schools and in the summer of 1865 passed the high school at the Burgplatz in Essen . After completing a construction apprenticeship, he studied structural engineering at the Berlin Building Academy from 1866 to 1868 . In the autumn of 1868 he took up his first job as a construction technician in Berlin. His military service followed. He then worked for the Berlin company Ende & Böckmann from 1871 to 1872 in the expansion of the war port near Wilhelmshaven , which was inaugurated on June 17, 1869 . It was also there that he founded his first construction company.
On April 19, 1879, he married his wife Martha nee in Wandsbek (today Hamburg-Wandsbek ). Nolte. The marriage remained childless.
In 1883 he moved to Saarbrücken and became mayor there. Shortly before the end of his tenure as Lord Mayor, on October 1, 1907, Feldmann moved to Freiburg im Breisgau to spend his old age there. He suddenly died on a later trip to Italy. Feldmann's urn was transferred to Saarbrücken and buried on March 7, 1911 in the cemetery of the Ehrental , now part of the Franco-German Garden .
Military career
Feldmann took as Annual - volunteer at the French German War 1870-71 part. On October 28, 1870, he suffered a serious wound to his right hand in a battle near La Formerie . Feldmann as mayor welcomed the advancing infantry regiment 1870 in Saarbrücken on April 1, 1887 . In 1898 the Riding Department of the 8th Field Artillery Regiment followed .
Public offices
In 1873 the city administration of Wilhelmshaven was constituted. Feldmann was first spokesman for the mayor. In 1880 he was promoted to salary councilor and deputy mayor. After the Saarbrücken city council had decided on May 7, 1883 to employ a salaried mayor in future , Feldmann stood for election there on October 5, 1883. His election was confirmed on November 29, and his inauguration took place on January 7, 1884. In the last quarter of 1907, Feldmann's term of office ended. By resolution of the Saarbrücken city council on August 15, 1907, confirmed on October 1, Paul Schmook , Mayor of Burbach - Malstatt , was commissioned to act as a provisional officer from October 19, 1907.
Development and construction work in the Saarbrücken office
Feldmann recognized that the future of Saarbrücken could only flourish in the expansion of the urban area, the modernization of traffic routes and infrastructure, as well as an appropriate urban building policy. To this end, he rigorously created space, for example by demolishing the Günderrodschen house and the former princely stables for the goals of his urban planning. In 1887 the first telephone system was put into operation. In 1889 the municipal gas works in Hohenzollernstrasse, the nucleus of today's municipal works . In 1894 the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge over the Saar to Malstatt was completed, today's Gersweiler Bridge. In 1895 the construction of the Saarbrücken power station began. In 1896, Feldmann planned two tram lines through the city and concluded a contract with the Berlin tram company. In 1897 he achieved an expansion of the urban area to the east by connecting the municipality of Sankt Arnual . The development of the Triller, the Reppersberg and the Hintertal to the southwest go back to his initiative. On March 2, 1899, Feldmann unveiled a Bismarck monument on Schlossplatz . On May 14, 1904, Feldmann unveiled an equestrian statue of Wilhelm I on the Old Bridge in the presence of the imperial couple . His will to expand in the direction of Sankt Johann was unbroken. Shortly before his resignation as mayor, there were again talks with city council members from Sankt Johann in 1907 , but this time they included an exclusion of the other potentially possible neighboring towns of Burbach - Malstatt in a planned merger as a condition. And he conducted the negotiations in secret, bypassing official channels - for this he received a disciplinary warning from the district president .
Duel for city agreement
On October 22, 1894 dueled Feldmann in Saarbrücken Irgental (now district Güdingen-Unner ) with its St. Johann counterpart Paul Neff . The occasion was disputes about the inclusion of the then autonomous city of Sankt Johann zu Saarbrücken, located on the right bank of the Saar . The seriously meant armed conflict with pistols ended lightly. Feldmann won and Neff was only slightly injured in the chin. Both duelists later had to answer in court, but were only sentenced to minor honorary sentences according to the customs of the time. Neither the occasion of the honorary trade nor the conviction was ever known more. The merger of Saarbrücken with Sankt Johann and Burbach - Malstatt to form a large city did not come about until April 1, 1909 - Neff retired the day before, and Feldmann's term of office ended 15 months earlier.
Social
The establishment of a local health insurance fund is attributed to Feldmann's initiative . In addition, in 1896 he set up a widows 'and orphans' fund for city officials.
Honors
- Appointment as Lord Mayor (December 5, 1907)
- Order of the Crown IV class
- Appointment as an honorary citizen of Saarbrücken (December 9, 1907)
- Discharge as Lord Mayor (January 1, 1908)
See also
Feldmannstrasse , located in the Alt-Saarbrücken district, is a reminder of his work.
literature
- Hanns Klein: short biographies of the mayors of Saarbrücken ; in: Journal for the history of the Saar region, 19th century, Historical Association for the Saar region , Saarbrücken 1971, pp. 519-520
Web links
from the north (1873, provisional) | Julius Nakszynski (1874–1879) | Rudolf Schwanhäuser (1879–1881) | Friedrich Wilhelm Feldmann (1881–1883) | Friedrich Oetken (1884–1896) | Hans Ziegner-Gnüchtel (1896–1906) | Emil Bartelt (1906–1933, Lord Mayor from 1919) | Carl Heinrich Renken (1933–1937) | Wilhelm Müller (1937–1945) | Friedrich Paffrath (1945, provisional) | Reinhard Nieter (1945–1952) | Arthur Raschke (1952–1953) | Friedrich Peters (1953–1955) | Rudolf Onken (1955–1956) | Reinhard Nieter (1956–1961) | Johann Janßen (1961–1972) | Arthur Grunewald (1972–1976) | Eberhard Krell (1976–1981) | Hans Janßen (1981–1986) | Eberhard Menzel (1986–2011) | Andreas Wagner (2011–2019) | Carsten Feist (since 2019)
1: Alt-Saarbrücken district , from 1815 mayor's office, from 1859 city mayor's office (from 1897 with Sankt Arnual )
Karl Zimmermann (1815–1816) | Friedrich Köllner (1816–1823) | Christian Heinrich Quien (1823–1831) | Heinrich Böcking (1832–1838) | August Ludwig Reuther (1838–1841) | Friedrich Haldy (1841–1844) | Ludwig Wagner (1844–1854) | August Kromayer (1854–1862) | Carl Schmidtborn (1862–1871) | Julius Kiefer (1871–1884) | Friedrich Wilhelm Feldmann (1884–1907)
2: St. Johann district , from 1859 mayor's office (until 1862 in personal union with old Saarbrücken)
Friedrich Bentz (1851) | Karl Karcher (1862–1868) | Heinrich Rumschöttel (1868–1871) | Hermann Falkenhagen (1872–1888) | Paul Neff (1888–1909)
3: Malstatt district (with Burbach ), from 1859 state mayor's office (until 1866 in personal union with old Saarbrücken), from 1875 city mayor's office
Wilhelm Meyer (1866–1900) | Paul Schmook (1900-1909)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feldmann, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Feldmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German building contractor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kommern near Euskirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1911 |
| Place of death | Bordighera |