Heinrich Rosell

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Heinrich Rosell family grave in the old Bonnstrasse cemetery

Heinrich Rosell (born October 28, 1848 in Longerich , † January 31, 1932 in Hürth ) was a Prussian municipal official during the Wilhelmine era .

Life

Career

He was born on the Nüssenberger Hof, located in the Mayor's Office Longerich . Nothing is known about Rosell's childhood, his schooling and further education. At the age of 18, Rosell became administrative secretary in the office of his father, Franz Josef Rosell, who had been mayor of Hürth since 1851 . For a short time he performed the duties of a registrar for the Longerich mayor based in what is now Cologne's Nippes district (Mayor Longerich until 1888). In 1874 he was appointed First Alderman (now an electoral officer ) in the mayor's office in Hürth. Two years later, after his father's sudden cardiac death, he was elected mayor of Hürth at the age of 27, with his official residence in Hermülheim.

Work in Hürth

The communities of this time were mostly purely rural. Mayor offices, which like Hürth had natural resources with lignite , made rapid progress in their development due to the onset of industrialization. Just two years after he took office, Ribbertwerke opened the first briquette and clay tube factory in Hermülheim , which created jobs. It was the beginning of an enormously positive structural change that affected all areas of the economy and subsequently improved the lives of citizens. Rosell played a major role in this development during his exceptionally long tenure. Other innovations in Rosell's tenure were the construction of the first Hermülheim town hall, the construction of a waterworks , the improvement of medical care through a community hospital and the transport links to the community through the Cologne-Bonn railway .

Rosell embodied the typical civil servant of the old Prussian school, by whom one understands a dutiful, strict civil servant with pronounced conservative views. He is said to have shown no understanding for the views and goals of the emerging social democracy and the unions that sympathize with them. Therefore, he did everything possible to prevent the influx of workers in his sphere of influence as much as possible. As a patriot and supporter of the monarchy , a world collapsed for Rosell with his defeat in World War I. The November Revolution of 1918/19, the abdication of the emperor and the introduction of democratic conditions were events beyond his understanding. When riots and strikes rocked the mayor's offices after the war, Rosell, now over 70 years old, retired on April 1, 1920. He celebrated his 80th birthday in disagreement with his former employees. In 1928, the civil servants' committee of the mayor's office in Hürth was unable to congratulate the former mayor, as he was not as they would have been with the civil servants.

Death and remembrance

Rosell had also lost his partner in his last year in office. He was married to Maria, née Menzen (April 24, 1853 - May 6, 1919), the daughter of the tenant at Aldenrath Castle. She gave her husband seven children. Rosell died on January 31, 1932 in Hermülheim, which had belonged to Hürth since 1930, and was buried in the family grave of the Bonnstrasse cemetery. The tomb of the Rosell family in the old cemetery that has been converted into a park is still preserved and, along with other tombs for the site of important people, was placed under monument protection.

In the city hall, a painting by Cologne artist Toni May commemorates the former mayor. The street which, coming from the hospital, joins Luxemburger Strasse opposite the old mayor's office , was named "Rosellstrasse" after the two mayors.

literature

  • Manfred Faust: History of the City of Hürth. (Ed.) Heimat und Kulturverein Hürth e. V., JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7616-2282-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burgermeisterei Longerich, signature: Best. 867 [1] accessed June 1, 2014
  2. ^ A b c Manfred Faust: History of the City of Hürth , Heimat und Kulturverein Hürth e. V. (Ed.), JP Bachem Verlag Cologne 2009, p. 63 ff
  3. ↑ Otto Hoevermann: Die Altvorderen , page 39, self-published by the author, 1947
  4. ↑ Hermülheim civil status register, births 1882 - 1896
personal data
SURNAME Rosell, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian municipal official of the Wilhelmine era
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Longerich
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1932
Place of death Huerth