Georg Wilhelm Vogel
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Georg Wilhelm Vogel (born November 7, 1743 in Feuchtwangen , † December 16, 1813 in Jena ) was a German lawyer and mayor of Jena.
Vogel was secretary, court director and councilor in Köstritz and since 1792 in Jena, initially as a landscape cashier (district cashier in the Jena landscape). In August 1793 he became second mayor and in June 1805 first mayor. At the time of the battle of Jena and Auerstädt in 1806, Napoleon Bonaparte lived in his house on the market square in Jena. From July 1806 he was second mayor again and from August 1807 to September 1808 again first mayor. He remained mayor until 1809. Even during his activity in the council, he continued to work full-time as district cashier. In 1801 he became a councilor.
He was only one of the city's mayors at the time. In a certain way more important, because diplomatically more skillful and with better connections, was the court agent of Sachsen-Weimar and merchant Johann Christoph Jacob Paulsen (1768–1808), who was mayor from 1789 to 1808 and was first and second mayor several times with Vogel changed. Vogel was later criticized for serving as mayor in 1806 during the battle, he was described as ailing, hesitant and indecisive. Paulsen was already ill at this time and failed.
Vogel was socially committed in Jena and set up a poor house. The residents later got work through his son's cloth factory. Since he ran the poor house with a hard hand, criticism of him had also come out loud. But there was no one else who wanted to take on these tasks. When he retired from the city council and politics in 1810, not least because of conflicts with the city commandant over the police headquarters, he kept the management of the hospital, labor and insane asylum. He died in 1813 of a nervous fever .
On October 12, 1808 he was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor by Napoleon for his services in caring for the wounded (together with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Christoph Martin Wieland and Johann Christian Stark ).
His brothers were:
- Georg Johann Ludwig Vogel (1742–1776), orientalist and Protestant theologian ;
- Benedict Christian Vogel (1745–1825), physician, botanist and university lecturer in Altdorf near Nuremberg .
literature
- Katja Deinhardt: Stacked city of knowledge: Jena as a university town between 1770 and 1830 , publications of the Historical Commission of Thuringia, small series, volume 20, Böhlau 2007.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Genealogical data
- ↑ Katja Deinhardt, Stapelstadt des Wissens , 2007, p. 381 with a table of mayors.
- ↑ Report by the Jena City Museums ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vogel, Georg Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of Jena |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1743 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wet cheeks |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1813 |
| Place of death | Jena |