Georg Fein senior

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Georg Fein senior (born February 23, 1755 in Hameln ; † April 15, 1813 in Kassel ) was mayor of the city of Helmstedt from 1790 to 1808 and later general inspector of indirect taxes and general director of the state domains in the Kingdom of Westphalia .

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Georg Fein senior, the father of the Vormärz politician Georg Fein and the law professor Eduard Fein , attended the grammar school in Holzminden and from 1772 the Brunswick Collegium Carolinum . From 1774 he studied law in Göttingen and received his doctorate in law .

From 1777 to 1781 he worked as a lawyer and notary as well as a councilor in the service of Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick . From 1782 to 1790 he was a commissioner in Holzminden and from 1790 to 1808 district prefect and mayor of the city of Helmstedt.

In 1807 he was a member of a Brunswick deputation to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte together with the Helmstedt theology professor Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke . Fein was very impressed by the Napoleonic modernization efforts in administration, justice and economy. In 1810 he went to see Napoleon's brother, King Jérôme Bonaparte, in Kassel, where he assumed the position of General Inspector of Indirect Taxes in the Kingdom of Westphalia. In 1811 he became general director of the Westphalian state domains.

Working for the University of Helmstedt

In his first year as mayor, Fein played an important role in the student riots at the University of Helmstedt in the winter of 1790/1791. He initially had a vigilante group formed to oppose the revolting students. After their exodus from the university town but he went after them Harbke according to mediate as a negotiator between the parties and to persuade the students to return.

From 1791 to 1796 he was a member of a commission that deliberated on the future fate of the University of Helmstedt . The university was then dissolved in 1810.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ birth and death year after Dieter Lent: finding aid to inventory the estate Democrats Georg Fein (1803-1869) as well as family Fine (1737-) ca. 1772-1924 . Lower Saxony archive administration, Wolfenbüttel 1991, ISBN 3-927495-02-6 , p. 14, 228.
  2. ↑ Cf. Dieter Lent: Fein, Georg (sen.) . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1996, p. 174.
  3. ↑ See also Ferdinand Spehr :  Fein, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 606 f.
  4. ↑ See Ulrike Strauss, in: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Gerhard Schildt (ed.): The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. A region looking back over the millennia . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 699f.
  5. ↑ a b cf. Dieter Lent: Fein (sen.), Georg . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1996, p. 175.
  6. ↑ Cf. also Theodor Muther:  Fein, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 605 f.
  7. ^ Georg Objartel: Language and way of life of German students in the 18th and 19th centuries . de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045399-7 , p. 29 .
personal data
SURNAME Fine, Georg senior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of the city of Helmstedt
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1813
Place of death kassel