Georg Merkel (politician)

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Julius Philipp Georg Merkel (born May 7, 1829 in Hanover ; † September 4, 1898 in Göttingen ) was Lord Mayor of the city of Göttingen.

Life

Merkelstein am Hainberg

Merkel studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1849 . During his studies he became a member of the Hannovera Göttingen fraternity in 1849 , from which he transferred in 1878/79 to the Corps Hansea Göttingen , which was founded out of it, but which soon dissolved again. After the state examinations, he became city secretary in Hanover in 1855 as an administrative lawyer. In 1866 he was transferred to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior in Berlin. From there Merkel 1868 by the magistrate of the city as City Counsel appointed to Göttingen and elected to the post of mayor 1870th In 1885 he received the title of Lord Mayor of the city.

Merkel began reforesting the Hainberg of the Göttingen Forest in 1871 , which was not completed until 1893. Important infrastructure measures of the city fall during his tenure as mayor, such as the central water supply (1877) and the modern disposal of waste water (1890). Land consolidation was carried out in the town's Feldmark in 1877 . The city built numerous schools and promoted the further expansion of the Georg August University, which grew rapidly and gained international recognition due to the progressive Prussian science policy under Friedrich Althoff . In terms of cultural policy, the construction of the German Theater (1890) was outstanding for the city . No less important are the new central cemetery (1880), the communal slaughterhouse (1883), the disinfection facility (1884) and the renovation of the old town hall (1883). On Merkel's initiative, the Göttingen memorial plaques were introduced based on the Jena model .

His successor was Georg Friedrich Calsow .

The Merkel stone, inaugurated on May 6, 1897 and designed by Ferdinand Hartzer , which is located at the foot of the Hainberg, commemorates Merkel.

family

Merkel was born with Sophie Wöhler married. His wife was the daughter of the chemist Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882). The couple's daughter, Franziska Merkel (* 1856) married the physician Friedrich Julius Rosenbach (1842–1923) in 1877 .

literature

  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography Volume 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 , Sponholtz, Hanover 1912, p. 228–232
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 86-87.
  • Walter Nissen, Christina Prauss, Siegfried Schütz: Göttinger Gedenktafeln , Göttingen 2002, pp. 148/149 ISBN 3-525-39161-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Merkel is not listed in the Kösener Corps lists 1910 71 .
  2. ^ Walter Nissen: Göttingen monuments, memorial stones and fountains. Göttingen 1978, p. 61.
  3. ↑ Adolf Baring : The Baring family, especially the Hanoverian line, with 22 illustrations and a coat of arms in: German Roland Book for Gender Studies , published by the "Roland" Association for the Promotion of Stamm-, Wappen- und Siegelkunde EV, 1st volume, Dresden 1918 , P. 65.


personal data
SURNAME Merkel, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merkel, Julius Philipp Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord Mayor of the City of Göttingen
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1898
Place of death Goettingen