Friedrich Wilhelm Steinkopf

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Friedrich Wilhelm Steinkopf (born July 17, 1842 in Duisburg , † July 9, 1911 in Mülheim am Rhein ) was a German civil servant and mayor of the cities of Kleve and Mülheim am Rhein.

Life

Steinkopf was first from February 1862 civil supernumerary in the Düsseldorf government, from July 1867 district secretary in Moers and then in 1874/75 factory inspector in Düsseldorf . In this function, he spoke out in a report dated September 21, 1874 against the enactment of a district police ordinance on granting rest breaks for factory workers. In 1875/76 he was appointed mayor of the city of Kleve by the Düsseldorf government. This appointment was made against the will of the Klever city council.

Steinkopf was from June 1876 to 1908 mayor or lord mayor of the city of Mülheim am Rhein. The title of Lord Mayor was awarded to him on the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of the mayor in 1898. In June 1878 - in the run-up to the socialist laws - he banned a meeting of the socialist workers' electoral union and had it closed for the time being. After five years of the Socialist Law, however, in 1883 he had to admit that “in his city, among its large working population, there is still a not insignificant number of supporters of that direction”.

Steinkopf repeatedly spoke out against the incorporation of Mülheim into Cologne . In 1895 he supported the construction of the Luther Church , the central church of the Mülheim evangelical parish. He came up with the idea of ​​preparing the site of the former Merkerhof as a Mülheim city garden for the population.

Steinkopf died in 1911 a few days before his 69th birthday and was buried in the evangelical cemetery in Mülheim .

Honors

The city of Mülheim am Rhein granted him honorary citizenship in 1907. Steinkopfstrasse was named after him in Cologne-Mülheim .

literature

  • Johann Bendel : The city of Mülheim am Rhein. History and description, sagas and tales . Mülheim am Rhein 1913.
  • Franz-Josef Verscharen, Clemens von Looz-Corswarem (arr.): Files of the city administration of Mülheim am Rhein 1815–1914 . Volume 1 (= messages from the city archive of Cologne , 79). Böhlau, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-412-16998-6 , p. 19.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 . I. Department: From the time of the founding of the Empire to the Imperial Social Message (1867–1881) , Volume 3: Workers' Protection, edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Stuttgart / Jena / New York 1996, ISBN 3-437-50394-4 , No. 70.
  2. ↑ Ulrike Nyassi, Helmut Köster: Patriotic journeymen. Social Democracy and Socialist Law in Cologne (1878–1890) . In: Reinhold Billstein (Ed.): The other Cologne. Democratic traditions since the French Revolution . Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7609-0467-X , pp. 135-155.
  3. ↑ burial place. In: Findagrave.com. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Street names from the Buchheim area → Steinkopfstraße ( memento of the original from June 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guenter-proehl.de
personal data
SURNAME Steinkopf, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant, Lord Mayor of Mülheim am Rhein
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1911
Place of death Mülheim am Rhein