Georg Friedrich Heilmann

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Georg Friedrich Heilmann (around 1810)

Georg Friedrich Heilmann the Younger (born January 5, 1785 in Biel , Switzerland ; † July 24, 1862 ibid) was a Biel politician, officer and landscape painter .

Life

Heilmann was born on January 5th, 1785 as the son of the publisher, printer and politician Niklaus Heilmann and his wife Elise (née Bourquin from Sonceboz).

Together with his tutor Johann Rudolf Wyss took Heilmann several trips abroad and studied at the Universities of Halle and Heidelberg , the law , in addition also science and literature , and was in the Corp Landsmannschaften Guestphalia Hall , Rhenania superior Heidelberg and Guestphalia I Heidelberg active. After returning to Switzerland, he also devoted himself to agronomic studies at the Fellenberg Institute in Hofwil .

From his youth he was drawn to the military. He was first lieutenant and captain of the French National Guard from September 10, 1806 to May 1, 1816. From 1813 until the end of the French occupation of Biel, he was captain of the city's honor guard. In 1813 he married Elise Haas, a daughter of Friedrich Haas from Biel. Her brother was the city surgeon Johann Jakob Haas. Through this marriage he was released from service in Napoleon's army and was allowed to stay in the city.

In January 1814 he was elected to the provisional government of Biel, which was headed by his father Niklaus. During the Wars of Liberation from 1813 to 1815 he was the official envoy of his hometown to the headquarters of the allies, in Zurich and at the Congress of Vienna . Already on January 21, 1814 Heilmann, together with Abraham Samuel Daxelhofer, another envoy from Biel, was received by the Austrian Emperor in Basel, where he decided to create an independent canton of Biel consisting of the reformed part of the diocese of Basel with the city of Biel as the capital create put forward. In the following months, he made a total of 27 trips within Switzerland. From October 16, 1814, Heilmann tried to represent his city's position at the Congress of Vienna and to prevent Biel from becoming part of a canton of Pruntrut , as other circles were trying to do. In spite of Biel's status as a more oriented place , the city was finally added to the Bernese district of Nidau as compensation for the Bernese losses of the Vaud and the Bernese Aargau .

From 1816 he was governor of Nidau, Bernese Grand Councilor (until 1829) and most recently colonel in the cantonal military service. As early as 1820 he wrote a memorial for the correction of the Jura waters , but this was only realized decades later. The enthusiastic Philhellene founded the Biel savings fund in the same year and was considered the center of Biel's intellectual life.

From 1829 or 1831 to 1844 he was in the service of the 4th Swiss Regiment in Naples , first as a captain, then as a colonel . There he devoted himself to archaeological studies and was appointed director of the Museum of Nola (near Naples) by the officer corps . On September 27, 1845, he retired from active military service.

After his return to Biel, he was again a member of the Bernese Grand Council from 1846 to 1850.

From his marriage to Elise Haas he had three daughters and a son Fritz († 1860).

Honors

In Biel, Georg-Friedrich-Heilmann-Platz and Georg-Friedrich-Heilmann-Strasse are named after him.

literature

  • Ed. Bähler: Georg Friedrich Heilmann 1785–1862. In: Historical Association of the Canton of Bern (Ed.): Collection of Bernese Biographies. Volume 4, Verlag von Schmid & Francke, Bern 1902, pp. 23–35, here from p. 27 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Fritz Ammon: Georg Friedrich Heilmann, 1785–1862, envoy of the city of Biel to the Congress of Vienna 1814/15. Open-air play for the national celebration in 1978.
  • Albert Maag: Georg Friedrich Heilmann as envoy of the city of Biel at the Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815. Verlag W. Ruch-Beck, 1989.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Werner Bourquin, Markus Bourquin: Biel Stadtgeschichtliches Lexikon. Office Cortesi, Biel / Bienne 1999, p. 182 ff.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 116 , p. 431.
  3. ^ Albert Maag: History of the Swiss troops in the Neopolitan service, 1825–1861. Commission-Verlag von Schulthess, 1909, p. 641 (excerpt, books.google.de ).
  4. ↑ Ed. Bähler: Georg Friedrich Heilmann 1785–1862. In: Historical Association of the Canton of Bern (Ed.): Collection of Bernese Biographies. Volume 4, Verlag von Schmid & Francke, Bern 1902, p. 28 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Heilmann, Georg Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 274 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Christoph Zürcher: Georg Friedrich Heilmann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 11, 2011 , accessed December 31, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Berner Taschenbuch for the year 1867. P. 405, Hallersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Bern 1867 ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Heilmann, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician and colonel
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Biel , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1862
Place of death Biel , Switzerland