Heinrich Bergmann (politician, 1799)

Heinrich Bergmann (born January 13, 1799 in Hanover ; † April 23, 1887 ibid) was a German officer , politician , university curator , administrative lawyer , consistorial director , minister of culture , secret council and civil servant .

Life

Heinrich Bergmann was born in 1799 as the son of a military doctor in the royal seat of the Electorate of Hanover , long orphaned by the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover , but which remained the seat of numerous central authorities . He attended the Hanoverian Lyceum (later the Ratsgymnasium ) in Hanover during the so-called “ French era ” , but joined the 2nd Line Battalion of the King's German Legion as an ensign on May 27, 1814 as a youth . Only a little later he took part in the Battle of Waterloo as one of the youngest officers .

After Heinrich Bergmann said goodbye to the Royal Hanoverian military in 1819 , he began studying law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and passed his state examination in law in 1821 . A few years later, in 1824, he was given a permanent position at the Hanoverian Domain Chamber .

After a time as an assessor in Wennigsen am Deister , he was appointed unskilled worker in the Ministry of Hanover and a ministrial officer in 1831. In 1834, under Philipp Reinecke , he took over the 2nd official position in the Hanover office . In 1837 Bergmann worked as an assessor in the king's cabinet.

Bergmann was involved in the municipal constitutions for the Hanover suburb - communities ; 1842 initially for the suburbs of Glocksee-Ohe and Linden ; Then in 1843 for the suburb of Steintor and the “ Aegidientor garden community”.

In the meantime, Heinrich Bergmann was appointed to the consistorial council in Hanover in 1842 and was also appointed a member of the Hanover State Council in the same year .

In 1844 Bergmann founded the elementary school teacher widow's fund together with Ubbelohde , von Göben, Knocke, Meyer and Bödeker . From 1846 to 1851 Heinrich Bergmann gave numerous political lectures to the then Crown Prince and later King George V.

During the revolutionary years of 1848/49 , Heinrich Bergmann became a member of the Estates' Assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover from 1849 and belonged to the second chamber there. At the end of 1853 he was appointed minister of culture to the "Lütcken Ministry", which was newly created under Prime Minister Eduard Christian von Lütcken . In this function, Bergmann worked as a curator at the University of Göttingen and was responsible, among other things, for the appointment of the mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, who had been working in Berlin until then, as the successor to Carl Friedrich Gauß, who died in 1855 . Also in 1855 Bergmann resigned from the government with the title “Privy Council”.

In the following year, 1856, Heinrich Bergmann was appointed director of the Hanover consistory as the successor to the late von Derschau - but as such he could "[...] not prevent the catechism controversy of 1862. "

Heinrich Bergmann retired at the end of 1866 .

Bergmann lived a total of 60 years in the house on the Lange Laube that his father-in-law had given him before he died in 1887.

Bergmannstrasse

Heinrich Bergmann had his own house on Lange Laube . That is why Bergmannstrasse , which was laid out posthumously in 1888 and where Bergmann also owned his own property, was named after the Royal Hanoverian Minister as a connection to Escherstrasse in what is now the Mitte district .

Fonts (selection)

• In 1868 Heinrich Bergmann wrote a typewritten autobiography .

literature

• Irene Schneider: Heinrich Bergmann, 1799-1887. In: Niedersächsische Lebensbilder (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen (VHKNB)), Vol. 9, on behalf of the Historical Commission ed. by Otto Heinrich May and Edgar Kalthoff. Hildesheim: Lax, 1976, ISBN 3-7848-2509-5 , pp. 105-122
• Helmut Eckert: On the characteristics of the Hanoverian State Minister Heinrich Bergmann. His “Consideranda” of January 25, 1855 (with unpublished files) . In: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History: Organ of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony in Hanover , Bd. 46/47, ed. from the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen, Göttingen: Wallstein, 1974/75, ISSN 0078-0561, pp. 345–354
• Irene Schneider, Rolf Wedekind: Ancestors of the children of Heinrich Bergmann (1799-1887), Minister of State and Act. Privy Council in Hanover and Dorette Bergmann geb. Wedekind (1799-1874). In: North German family studies: NFK. Journal of the Working Group on Genealogical Associations in Lower Saxony , Neustadt an der Aisch [u. a.]: Degener [u. a.], ISSN 0468-3390
• Wilhelm Rothert : Bergmann, Hr., GR, Erz. , In ders .: General Hannoversche Biografie , Vol. 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 , Hannover: Sponholtz, 1912, p. 331
• Wilhelm Ebel (Ed., Arr.): Catalogus professorum Gottingensium 1734 - 1962 , on behalf of the Senate of Georgia Augusta, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1962, p. 21
• Joachim Rückert , Jürgen Vortmann (ed.): Lower Saxony lawyers . A historical encyclopedia with an introduction to regional history and a bibliography , with the collaboration of André Depping, Thomas Henne, Peter Oestmann and others, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2003, ISBN 3-525-18241-4 , p. 317f.

Remarks

1. ↑ Deviating from this, the GWLB names the year 1798 as a different date of birth, as does Wilhelm Rothert (see literature).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bergmann, Heinrich in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek (GWLB), edited on July 15, 2015, last accessed on May 9, 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Klaus Mlynek : Bergmann, (2) Heinrich. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 52.
3. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Capital (function). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 274.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Wilhelm Rothert: Bergmann, Hr., GR, Erz. , In ders .: Allgemeine Hannoversche Biografie , Vol. 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 , Hannover: Sponholtz, 1912, p. 331
5. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Vorstadt H. , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 649f.
6. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Bergmannstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 37