Gottlieb Leo

Gottlieb Leo (born November 14, 1786 in Miltenberg ; † February 18, 1837 in Aschaffenburg ) was a legal clerk at the city and district court of Aschaffenburg. From 1824 to 1827 and from 1831 to 1835 he was mayor of the Lower Franconian city of Aschaffenburg in the Free State of Bavaria .

Life

His father Jakob Leo, (1748–1825) from Mainz, former bailiff, electoral court judge and last Aschaffenburg city scholar (1796–1815) his mother Margaretha Döllinger (1761–1810) from Aschaffenburg. The father married a second time, namely Sophia Scheidel, who was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1773. Gottlieb Leo married Maria Margaretha Tempel, born on December 19, 1791 in Aschaffenburg. She died on October 7, 1832 after giving birth to her eleventh child. He went into a second marriage in December 1834 with Juliane Sixtus, born on April 28, 1792 in Rothenfels. Juliane died on November 10, 1858 in Aschaffenburg. He himself died on February 18, 1837 at the age of 50 from the consequences of a dilation of the lungs.

career

After graduating from high school, Gottlieb Leo enrolled at the Charles University in Aschaffenburg. He first studied philosophy (1803-1805) and then law (1805-1808) each with a grade of “one” as a final certificate. After legal state examination he began in 1814 as a protocol is at the city and district court Aschaffenburg, where he in 1822 appointed secretary rose . On March 6th and 12th, 1824, Gottlieb Leo was elected mayor of the city of Aschaffenburg by the magistrate and the parish council.

His merit was the implementation of the new hospital building on Wermbachstrasse. The foundation stone was laid in 1824. After two years of construction and a cost of 28,000 guilders, the hospital was put into operation in 1826.

On August 4, 1826, King Ludwig I (1786–1868) and Queen Therese (1792–1854) visited Aschaffenburg. The press reported, among other things: “Since yesterday we have been enjoying one of the greatest benefits that the best father and mother of the country do to grateful children by allowing them in their midst to be able to express the unmistakable feelings of unlimited love and awe. ... It was yesterday evening at 7 o'clock when Her Majesties the King and Queen, beaming with grace, accompanied by the loud and heartfelt jubilation of a blissfully drunk people, made their solemn entry into this city in the most desirable welfare. Certainly the expressions of love and devotion of loyal citizens were never purer than they made themselves known here, just as the journey of the long-awaited rulers of Würzburg through the Spessart clearly evokes the image of the triumphs of the kings of antiquity ... " At the beginning During the term of office, Gottlieb Leo and the magistrate had agreed that he would only be available for one term, which ended in the spring of 1827.

In the name of the city of Aschaffenburg, he managed or processed all kinds of legal cases until he became mayor for the second time on August 11, 1831, after his successor, Franz Josef Feller . He "ruled" the city of Aschaffenburg for three years, the court of appeal for the Lower Main District started its work in the Schönborner Hof , the agricultural and trade school was established and express ships to Frankfurt were started. But there were also incidents (including a dispute with the university, to which he owed his entire education) that made it clear that Aschaffenburg's mayor had peculiarities, which understandably meant that he could not be shown any particular sympathy from the population.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aschaffenburger Zeitung No. 186 of August 5, 1826

literature

• Carsten Pollnick: Aschaffenburg mayor Würzburg: Volksblatt Verlagsgesellschaft mbH 1983, ISBN 3-429-00875-1

Web links

• Information from the city of Aschaffenburg about Gottlieb Leo