Heinrich Fischer (politician, 1807)

Heinrich Fischer (around 1850)

Heinrich Fischer (born September 20, 1807 in Warburg; † February 20, 1879 ibid.) Was a lawyer and mayor of Warburg from 1843 until his death .

Life

Family, education and first job

The Fischer family had lived in Warburg since the 17th century. Heinrich was the second son of Justice Commissioner Philipp Fischer (1772–1846) and his wife Charlotte Böttrich. After attending the monastery school in Warburg and the Theodorianum high school in Paderborn , he studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1825 to 1828. In 1830 he passed his legal traineeship at the royal higher regional court in Paderborn.

On May 1st, 1832 Heinrich married the widowed Aloysia Böttrich. The marriage resulted in three children: Philipp, who later became a public prosecutor in Koblenz , Charlotte, who married the Warburg district judge Ziegler, and Wilhelm, who was in charge of the loan department at the Kreissparkasse. In 1836 Heinrich and Aloysia returned to Warburg, and Heinrich became secretary at the local regional and municipal court. In 1840 he passed his exams as a judicial commissioner and initially worked as a lawyer in his hometown. The Fischer family's house in Hauptstrasse 84 is no longer there. Brother Robert Fischer (1820) acquires the Haus Riepen estate and the estate in Menne .

Mayor of Warburg

On January 20, 1843, he was elected by the Warburg city ​​council as the successor to Adam Rinteln, who had retired early, as the new mayor of the city. He held this position for over 36 years until his death.

In 1848 he took part in the Prussian National Assembly in Berlin as a representative of the Warburg district . In 1854 he represented his city a second time as a member of the provincial state parliament in Berlin.

His achievements included, above all, the considerable improvement in traffic conditions. The expansion of streets and highways accompanied his entire term of office and also brought with it the demolition of some historic city gates and other buildings. From 1848 to 1853 the city of Warburg was also connected to the Westphalian Railway, including the construction of the Warburg train station . On July 21, 1853, he was able to celebrate the completion of the Kassel- Paderborn connection and the Warburg station building in the presence of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. With a festival trip to Paderborn and a subsequent feast.

The water supply has also been significantly improved with the construction of a new water art .

Special efforts went to the Warburg hospital . In his first year in office he obtained permission from the Prussian government to employ Vincentian women to nurse the sick. 1845–1846 was also merged with the historic Petrihospital. In 1850/51 the hospital building from the Middle Ages, the Romhof in Sternstrasse, was expanded with a two-storey extension so that 40 people could now be admitted as inpatients. The statutes for the “Warburg Hospital”, which were passed in 1857, divided the organization into the areas of A. Heil-Anstalt, B. Nursing-Anstalt, C. Anstalt for needy children and D: School for proximity. As chairman of the poor commission , the mayor was also the hospital director.

In the field of education, he took care of the establishment of additional classes at the Warburg high school and the establishment of a girls' school in Neustadt. As a chronicler he kept the town chronicle of Warburg.

In 1868 he was honored and celebrated on his 25th anniversary with a magnificent torchlight procession and over 100 guests in the Warburg restaurant “Bürgererverein”. He could not get through the third term of office until the end and died on February 20, 1879. In a later appraisal it says: "He was very concerned about the welfare of his hometown, but was very noble in his thoughts and actions."

The Charvin Foundations

Victorine-Charlotte Charvin, b. Fischer (1799–1862)

Heinrich helped his sister Viktorine-Charlotte, who had married the wealthy French Pierre Charvin, who had come to Warburger Land under Jérôme Bonaparte in 1821 and has lived in Paris ever since, in social and cultural projects through generous foundations. She was supported in Paris by her youngest brother, Robert Fischer, who was married to one of her daughters, Pierrine, and thus became the father-in-law of Carl Caspar von Droste zu Hülshoff .

Their donations made it possible in 1857 to build a Way of the Cross consisting of 14 sandstone houses with sculptural sculptures , which connects the Old Town St. Mary's Church and the Erasmus Chapel on the Burgberg , the restoration and refurbishment of the Erasmus Chapel and in 1861 the construction of a new organ in the Neustadtkirche. In addition, there were always larger donations for the hospital and poor relief .

After her death, according to her decree, the Charvin-Stift was founded, endowed with 20,000 thalers, which was built in 1863 as a house initially for less well-off single women at the hospice churchyard in Neustadt. It was later used as a general girls' school.

Other political offices

• 1948 Member of the Prussian National Assembly in Berlin
• 1954 to 1858, 1871 (deputy) and 1875 (deputy) deputy for the state of the cities in the Paderborn electoral district in the provincial parliament of the province of Westphalia in Münster

Honors

• 1865 Awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, IV class
• The Bürgermeister-Fischer-Strasse in Warburg is named after him.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Westfalenblatt: Der Modernizer Warburgs , Warburg, 25./26. April 2020
2. ↑ Royal Prussian Government: Directory of the representatives elected in the Province of Westphalia and deputies of the meeting in Berlin to be appointed to agree the Prussian state constitution . In: Official Journal of the Royal Prussian Government in Minden . 1848, piece 23, p. 150 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DNBw_AAAAcAAJ%26vq%3Dfischer%26pg%3DPA160-IA8%23v%3Donepage%26q%26f%3Dfalse~GB% 3D ~ IA% 3D ~ MDZ% 3D% 0A ~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D ).

literature

• Mürmann, Franz (1986): The historical development of the city of Warburg since 1802 . In: ders. (Ed.): The city of Warburg 1036–1986. Contributions to the history of a city. Volume 2. Warburg: Hermes.
• Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 271.