Georg Ernst Friedrich Hoppenstedt

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Inscription on the Engesohde city cemetery from 1978, according to which Hoppenstedt was said to have been buried in the garden cemetery a few years earlier .

Georg Ernst Friedrich Hoppenstedt (* July 8, 1779 in Hanover ; † February 16, 1858 there ) was Lord Mayor (officially: City Director) of Hanover from 1821 to 1824 , administrative lawyer and statesman who was closely associated with the University of Göttingen .

Life

Hoppenstedt was the youngest child of Pastor Wilhelm Johann Julius Hoppenstedt at the garden church and his wife Luise Henriette Steigerthal (1742–1821); his nine siblings who survived into adulthood included Karl Wilhelm and August Ludwig ; the family belonged to the so-called pretty families in the late 18th and 19th centuries .

After attending the Lyceum in Hanover, he studied law in Göttingen from 1797 to 1800 . During the French occupation and when the Electorate of Hanover belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1810 to 1813, Hoppenstedt held various offices in the city administration. In 1817 he was appointed government councilor and in autumn 1820 provisional city director. From February 1821 he also held this office formally. One of his tasks was to draw up a constitution for the old and new town, which should include the separation of administration and justice and which came into force in 1822. In 1824 the old and new towns were combined; In addition, he reorganized the school system and founded a savings and loan fund , which later became the city savings bank . In March 1824 Hoppenstedt resigned from office.

He was appointed as the successor to his sick brother Karl Wilhelm as a secret cabinet councilor and general secretary as well as a member of the assembly of estates. From then on he was in charge of the archives, was responsible for administrative reform and for the affairs of the University of Göttingen. In this role he managed to call a number of big names there. He refused an appointment as Minister of the Interior in 1831 and retired in 1848. Hoppenstedt died on February 16, 1858. A street in the southern part of Hanover was posthumously named after the Göttingen honorary citizen (since 1837).

Hildesheimer Strasse 17

Georg Ernst Friedrich Hoppenstedt is said to have owned his home, allegedly built in the 18th century, at Hildesheimer Strasse 17 , which the parents of the philosopher Theodor Lessing bought in 1879 . The building stood in the place of today's main entrance to the Hanover region at Hildesheimer Straße 20. A picture of the “Georg Hoppenstedt residential building at Hildesheimer Straße 17” can be found in the Digital Image Archive Hanover, ID 6605.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Hoppenstedtstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 121
  2. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Pretty families. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 310.
  3. ↑ Stefanie Schulz (text, ed.): Lessings Casino. A summer story. With eight illustrations and two everyday objects , Ed .: Der Regionspräsident, Region Hannover, Team Kultur, Hannover: [2019], pp. 5, 6, 7
personal data
SURNAME Hoppenstedt, Georg Ernst Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION City director of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1858
Place of death Hanover