Heinrich Schnabel (District Administrator)

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Heinrich Schnabel

Heinrich Schnabel (born February 12, 1778 in Elberfeld (today a district of Wuppertal ), † September 19, 1853 in Düsseldorf ) was a Prussian administrative officer.

Origin and education

As the son of the Evangelical Reformed court clerk and later city counsel Carl Friedrich Jakob Schnabel (1740–1787) and Maria Christine Tabea Schnabel, née. Maurenbecher (1740–1791) Heinrich Schnabel was born in Elberfeld. His godfather of the same name and grandfather Heinrich Schnabel (died 1797) lived in Gladbach as the owner of the local Schnabelsmühle , the nucleus of the later JW Zanders paper mill . Like his father before, Heinrich Schnabel Jr. also studied. Law, first in Heidelberg , where he matriculated on May 9, 1794 , and finally in Göttingen (1797). With the completion of his studies he entered the service of the Secret Council of Berg as an intern in March 1799. In 1802 he was employed by this as a council trainee.

Career

During the Napoleonic era, Schnabel joined the Düsseldorf city ​​administration . For the year 1808 he is occupied there as third alderman and for the years 1809 to 1813 as first alderman. On December 1, 1813, Heinrich Schnabel was appointed provisionally the first Lord Mayor of the city by the Generalgouvernement of Berg . His predecessor, Maximilian von Pfeil , still carried the official title Maire , according to the grand-ducal-Bergisch municipal constitution, which was modeled on the French municipal constitution . Before the time of the Grand Duchy of Berg , the city only had mayors, but no lords. Schnabel only held this office for half a year; in April 1814, tribunal judge Degreck took over the task. Parallel to his appointment as mayor, Schnabel was appointed police director for the provisional Berggouvernement in Düsseldorf on November 30, 1813 . After the transition to Prussia, however, Schnabel was put on waiting allowance in 1816, i.e. temporarily on leave. With a rescript of December 20, 1820, he then entered into Prussian services with the provisional takeover of the administration of the Mülheim am Rhein district . After his inauguration on January 3, 1821, the definitive appointment with the highest cabinet order dated October 13, 1821, Schnabel held this office for almost 32 years until his retirement. For his position in Mülheim, Schnabel was appointed acting police director in Aachen at the end of 1830 . The office he took up at the beginning of January 1831 also included the administration of the Aachen district as district administrator. By order of November 21, 1832, the temporary transfer was withdrawn. During Schnabel's absence from Mülheim, the district deputy Friedrich Hohenschutz represented him . Heinrich Schnabel remained civil commissioner in the area of ​​the VII Army Corps on the Belgian border until 1834 . On September 30, 1852, Schnabel retired as District Administrator of the Mülheim district. His successor Oskar Danzier took over his Mülheim property while he returned to Düsseldorf himself.

Private

Heinrich Schnabel married twice. His first marriage was on September 4, 1800 in Elberfeld's native Eleonore Wichelhaus (1765-1820), a daughter of the particular (landowner) Johann Jakob Wichelhaus. On November 6, 1820, he married Helena Maurenbecher, a daughter of the Düsseldorf postmaster Johann Wilhelm Maurenbecher, in Düsseldorf. His grave is in the Golzheimer Friedhof in Düsseldorf.

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literature

  • Johann Bendel : Homeland book of the district of Mülheim am Rhein. History and description. Sagas and stories. 2nd and 3rd edition, self-published, Cologne-Mülheim 1925 (picture)
  • Hans Leonhard Brenner : The Strunde and its Bergisch Gladbacher mills. (= Series of publications by the Bergisches Historisches Verein Rhein-Berg eV, 67) Ed. Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV in collaboration with the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives, Bergisch Gladbach 2012, ISBN 3-932326-67-9 , p. 98.
  • Fritz Dross: A brief history of the city of Düsseldorf. Pustet, Regensburg 2009, p. 149.
  • Franz Frechen: The Golzheimer Friedhof in Düsseldorf. In: Rheinische Friedhöfe. 5th issue (= publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV , No. 55), Cologne 1990, p. 146, No. 668 (Heinrich Schnabel), p. 199, No. 925 (Eleonore Schnabel née Wichelhaus).
  • Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 728 f .
  • Charles Schmidt: The Grand Duchy of Berg 1806-1813. A study of French supremacy in Germany under Napoleon I (= Bergische Forschungen. Sources and researches on Bergische history, art and literature, XXVII) Verlagdruckerei Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch 1999, ISBN 3-87707-535-5 , p. 486 and . Note 146.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 728 f .
  2. ↑ LA NRW, PSA LE 105, p. 46.
  3. ^ Hans Leonhard Brenner: The Strunde and their Bergisch Gladbacher mills. (= Series of publications by the Bergisches Historisches Verein Rhein-Berg eV, 67) Ed. Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV in collaboration with the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives, Bergisch Gladbach 2012, ISBN 3-932326-67-9 , p. 98.
  4. ^ Fritz Dross: Small history of the city of Düsseldorf. Pustet, Regensburg 2009, p. 149.
personal data
SURNAME Schnabel, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1853
Place of death Dusseldorf