Heinrich Ferdinand Philipp von Sybel

Heinrich Ferdinand Philipp Sybel , from 1831 von Sybel (born January 5, 1781 in Soest , † February 19, 1870 in Bonn ) was a Rhenish Prussian civil servant and politician.

Life

He comes from an old Protestant pastor family , originally in Freudenberg near Siegen , later in the 16th century in Soest, and a teacher family who has been working at the Archigymnasium since then , with a pulpit and chair tradition that goes back over four hundred years . His father Johann Ludolph Florens Sybel (1736–1823), pastor at St. Petri in Soest and, like his ancestors, also a teacher at the Archigymnasium there, and his mother Florentine Brockhaus saw in their eldest son of 13 children the natural professional successor of their father. His school principal convinced his parents and him not to study theology , but law . First he studied from 1799 in Halle an der Saale , where he joined the Corps Guestphalia in 1800 . He completed his studies, including philosophy , in Berlin in 1804 with the third state examination, which he passed with distinction.

Just a year after his appointment as an assessor in the government in Münster , he was entrusted with the prosecution and the management of the prison . He kept these tasks under the French occupation; In 1812 he was even appointed public prosecutor . Even after the wars of freedom he retained his position and was appointed provisional district director ( district administrator ) of the Elberfeld district in 1814 . In 1815 he was appointed senior judge in Emmerich.

In 1816 Sybel was appointed legal advisor to the newly formed government in Düsseldorf . On September 2, 1831, he was elevated to the Prussian nobility as a royal Prussian government councilor in Düsseldorf . He was a member of the board of directors of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft .

The house of the Sybel family was on Alleestrasse, today Heinrich-Heine-Allee No. 7. The composer Louis Spohr lived here in 1826 for his first performance of the oratorio The Last Things at the Niederrheinischer Musikfest and in 1835 for a meeting with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Karl Immermann and Christian Grabbe .

In 1833 Sybel left the civil service and from then on led the life of a wealthy and influential citizen with his art-loving wife. He bought the Isenburg near Cologne and Steinbüchel estates , now part of Leverkusen .

In 1843 Sybel was appointed a secret councilor. He was a member of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia .

family

On September 28, 1815, in Elberfeld , he married Amalie Brügelmann (born June 26, 1798 in Elberfeld), the only daughter of the rich Rhineland entrepreneur Carl Friedrich Brügelmann and Johanna Charlotta von Carnap, and thus became economically completely independent. His sons Heinrich von Sybel (1817–1895), historian and politician, and the economic politician Alexander von Sybel (1823–1902) became influential members of the Prussian House of Representatives . The eldest daughter Luise Marie (* January 19, 1819 - May 9, 1895) married the Prussian Lieutenant General Hermann von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1810–1895), the second Emilie Auguste Cäcilie Therese (* June 13, 1825 - June 24 1896) the diplomat Hermann Ludwig von Balan (1812–1874).

Parliamentarians

In 1845 Sybel was a member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament . From March 31 to April 3, 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament and from April 4, 1848 to May 18, 1848 of the Committee of Fifties . From 1850 to 1854 he was a member of the First Chamber of the Prussian Landtag . From 1854 to 1855 he sat as a member of the Arnsberg 1 constituency in the Prussian House of Representatives . He belonged to the faction of the left.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Heinrich Ferdinand Philipp von Sybel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 11, Bautz, Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6 , Sp. 314-320.
• Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (=  manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 , p. 249.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 116 , 336
2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, page 281, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISBN 3-7980-0831-2
3. ↑ History of the Isenburg manor house near Cologne ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2006 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. 
4. ↑ Church book 1656–1849 of the Evangelical Church Elberfeld (StKr. Elberfeld)
5. ↑ Negotiations of the German Parliament , Official Edition, First Delivery, Frankfurt am Main 1848, Pages XI – XVI ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 81 kB)