Georg Scharnweber

Carl August Georg Scharnweber (born April 17, 1816 in Berlin ; † October 27, 1894 there ) was a Prussian politician .

Life

His parents were the royal Prussian State Councilor Christian Friedrich Scharnweber and his second wife Marie Christiane Scharnweber, née. Student Baudesson. His father died on July 3, 1822. From 1829 to 1834 Scharnweber attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin.

From 1834 to 1837 he studied camera studies at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. On September 8, 1837, he passed his first legal exam and was sworn in as an auscultator at the Berlin City Court on September 21 . On February 15, 1840, he passed the second legal exam, was then appointed a senior court trainee on May 18, and was sworn in on July 6. On July 10, 1840, he moved to the royal government in Potsdam as a government trainee lawyer.

As the owner of the Hohenschönhausen manor , which his mother gave him in 1841, the district estates presented him to the district administrator of the Niederbarnim district on June 18, 1842 . After passing the major state examination, he was appointed district administrator by the highest cabinet order of October 29, 1842 and took over the office on January 1, 1843.

In this function, he promoted the construction of the highway for the purpose of developing the Berlin suburbs. He also contributed to the development of a new district order, promoted welfare and introduced compulsory notification of infectious diseases as well as monitoring of midwives and developed the vaccination system. These measures led to a reduction in the death rate.

On April 20, 1848, he married Franziska Wernecke, daughter of Karl Wernecke, manor owner in Hermsdorf near Berlin, in Berlin.

From 1850 to 1860 he was 2nd director and from 1860 to 1878 chairman of the Kurmärkische Landarmendirektion . Scharnweber had been widowed since 1863. Two of his daughters died in infancy. The only surviving daughter was Manon Pauline (1855–1933, wife of Walter Gropius senior and mother of the architect Walter Gropius ). From 1865 until his death Scharnweber was a member of the Association for the History of Berlin . On June 2, 1866, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Hohenzollern House Order. From 1867 to 1876 he represented the constituency of Potsdam 4 ( Oberbarnim - Niederbarnim ) in the Prussian House of Representatives . In addition, since 1853 he was a member of the municipal state parliament of the Kurmark and the provincial state parliament of the province of Brandenburg.

On the occasion of his 25 years as a district administrator, he was awarded the title of Privy Councilor on December 30, 1867. On the 50th anniversary of his service on September 21, 1887, he became an honorary citizen of Bernau and Oranienburg and received the Red Eagle Order, 2nd class with oak leaves. On January 1, 1892, he retired and received the Order of the Crown, 2nd class. He lived in Berlin until his death. He was buried on October 30, 1894 in the Matthäus-Friedhof in Berlin.

In and around Berlin there are ten streets named after him in his former district, including in the Berlin districts of Friedrichshain , Friedrichshagen , Oberschöneweide , Weißensee , Reinickendorf and Alt-Hohenschönhausen .

Remarks

1. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 337 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Kühne, Thomas: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, electoral alliances and election candidates . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1994, pp. 190–193 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 6)

literature

• Claudia Wilke: The district administrators of the Teltow and Niederbarnim districts in the German Empire . Potsdam 1998, ISBN 3-930850-70-2 .