Heinrich Steinmetz

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Heinrich Steinmetz (born January 8, 1835 in Wolgast , † July 18, 1915 in Marburg ) was a German lawyer and curator.

Life

Heinrich Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Steinmetz was the son of the Wolgast doctor Heinrich Steinmetz (1808–1835), who died of typhus the day before his son was born , and his wife Julie Mathilde Friederica Rosina, née. Henning.

He studied law. During his studies he became a member of the Frankonia fraternity in Bonn in 1853/55 . After completing his studies, he became an auscultator at the Greifswald District Court in 1856 . In 1862 he became a court assessor at the Duisburg district court , then at the Düsseldorf district court . In 1868 he was appointed government assessor and in 1873 a councilor. Since January 1877 Steinmetz was a member of the board of trustees of the Art Academy Düsseldorf and since 1883 senior councilor and deputy to the government president of Königsberg (Prussia) .

In April 1886 he was appointed curator of the University of Greifswald as a secret councilor. In 1887 he was awarded the 3rd Class Red Eagle Order . He was friends with the Berlin university advisor Friedrich Althoff and was thus able to achieve advantages for the university. During Steinmetz's tenure, the new buildings for the eye clinic (Rubenowstrasse 2) and for the Physiological Institute (Rubenowstrasse 3) were built.

From 1889 to 1905 Steinmetz was a secret councilor and curator of the University of Marburg . In 1890 he ran as a free conservative in the Reichstag electoral district of Kassel 5 for the Reichstag election and in 1891 took part as a representative of the university together with the rector at the first meeting of the " Association for Defense against Anti-Semitism " in Marburg. Since 1905 he was a member of the Kassel municipal council . In 1903 he received the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves.

literature

  • Eberhard Schmidt : Biographical information on curator Heinrich Steinmetz . In: Kosegartens Ring. The correspondence between Bertha Balthasar and Theodor Pyl between 1884 and 1886 . Edition Pommern, Elmenhorst 2016, Appendix 7.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 197.
  2. ↑ Thomas Klein: The Hessians as Reichstag voters, first volume: Province of Hessen-Nassau and Waldseck-Pyrmont 1867-1933, 1989, ISBN 3-7708-0924-6 , p. 289.
  3. ^ Centralblatt for the entire teaching administration in Prussia 1903, p. 504
personal data
SURNAME Steinmetz, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinmetz, Heinrich Carl Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and curator
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolgast
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1915
Place of death Marburg on the Lahn