Georg Wilhelm Carl

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Georg Wilhelm Carl (born June 3, 1770 in Kassel , † August 26, 1826 in Hanau ) was court attorney of the Hessian court and mayor of the city of Hanau.

family

Georg Wilhelm Carl was the son of the Kassel lathe operator and Hessian road commissioner Johann Adam Carl (1745–1811) and Anna Gertrud Sophie born. Köster (1746–1772) from Niederlistingen . Georg Wilhelm Carl married Louise Charlotte Kaufmann (born October 29, 1772 in Netra ; † April 4, 1836, in Hof Trages ) in Netra on May 14, 1798 . The couple had five children, all of whom were born in Hanau.

Live and act

Georg Wilhelm Carl studied law at the University of Marburg from 1791 . It is not known exactly when he came to Hanau; his first son Adam Ludwig Wilhelm August was born here on October 1st, 1802. From 1817 he was appointed court attorney and procurator of the Evangelical Lutheran consistory . Both offices, which are referred to in the sources as Procurator Fisci and Syndikus , he carried out until 1821.

Neustädter Rathaus, official seat of Georg Wilhelm Carl

As part of the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse, the old town of Hanau was combined with the new town of Hanau, founded in 1597. By merging the separate city councils and administrations, the previous mayors Johann Martin Iber (old town) and Johann Heinrich Kuhl (new town) also resigned from their offices. In 1822 Georg Wilhelm Carl won the election as the first joint mayor of Old and New Hanau. His official title was that of an ordinary mayor, only his successor Bernhard Eberhard called himself Lord Mayor of Hanau. Georg Wilhelm Carl carried out his official duties until his death in 1826.

annotation

  1. ↑ While Hanau belonged to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt 1810–13, the Neustädter Stadtschultheiß Kuhl temporarily lost his offices. For three years the then mayor of Althanau Iber led the affairs of both cities in the title of mayor .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kur-Hessischer Staats- und Adress-Kalender to the year 1817. Kassel: S. 118.
  2. ↑ Handbook of the Kurhessischen Militair-, Hof- und Civil-Staats: To the year 1821. Kassel: S. 163.
  3. ^ Kurhessisches Staats- und Address-Handbuch: Auf das Jahr 1824. Kassel: S. 220.
personal data
SURNAME Carl, Georg Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessian court attorney and mayor of the city of Hanau
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1826
Place of death Hanau