Heinrich Titot
Heinrich Titot (born August 23, 1796 in Heilbronn ; † December 1, 1871 there ) was mayor of the city of Heilbronn from 1835 to March 1848 . He has also submitted several writings on the city's history.
ancestors
The ancestors of the mayor Titot come from the Lorraine Place Fontenoy . The ancestor of the Titots in Germany was Joseph Titot (* 1566, † 1642), who belonged to the Protestant faith and therefore had to leave Catholic Lorraine. Joseph married Henriette le Baults in 1587 and moved to Mömpelgard (part of Württemberg ) , where he was granted citizenship and worked as a notary, court clerk and clerk as well as a councilor. Joseph and Henriette had eleven children, five sons and six daughters, of whom the youngest son Abraham became the family owner. Abraham had two sons, namely Peter and Peter Christoph, one of the latter's seven sons, namely Peter Abraham Titot (* 1722 in Stuttgart), brought the Titot family to Württemberg.
Life and career
Family, childhood and youth
Heinrich Titot was the son of Karl Ludwig Christoph Titot (born April 3, 1755, † February 18, 1818), Senator in Heilbronn, and Caroline Mertz. Heinrich originally had three brothers and four sisters, but only three of them survived, namely Charlotte, Julie and Friederike. When things were rampant in Heilbronn in 1801 , his youngest brother Max died. From 1803 to 1812 he was a student at the Heilbronn grammar school . He learned to play the flute in 1808 and to dance in 1810. At school he was interested in the natural sciences and history, and his career aspirations were a pharmacist or a mining engineer. At the instigation of his father, however, he embarked on an administrative career after school.
education
On November 9, 1812, Heinrich Titot became an apprentice scribe to Johann Clemens Bruckmann , city clerk (and later city schoolteacher) in Heilbronn. In 1816 Heinrich enrolled at the University of Tübingen in the law department . In Tübingen he lived with August Klett and his brother Georg at Christian von Gmelin's . There he also passed the trainee examination in 1820. Titot worked as a legal trainee for the Neckar District Court in Esslingen. In 1821 he became a provisional, in 1823 a real Higher District Court actuary. In 1826 he resigned from the civil service to settle down as a freelance legal advisor.
On October 4, 1826, he became a member of the Heilbronn legal consultants, and in the same year he became a member of the city council. On November 13, 1828, Heinrich married Emilie Ludwig, the daughter of the Heilbronn Engelapotheker.
Stadtschultheiß (1835–1848)
After Johann Clemens Bruckmann died on April 20, 1835 at the age of 67, Heinrich Titot was appointed administrator of the municipal school the next day. In May he was elected mayor of the city of Heilbronn by the citizens and confirmed by the King of Württemberg on June 10, 1835.
The following construction activities fell into his 13-year position as mayor:
- Heilbronn mill industry:
- Conversion of the bridge mill into an art mill in the style of Anglo-American mills (1835–1836)
- Construction of the fulled cloth mill (1838–1839)
- Construction of the Sülmermühle (1840)
- Heilbronn school buildings:
- Sophienpflege , a toddler school (1837)
- Expansion of the Paulin Hospital with various wing extensions (1840–1841)
- Construction of a building for the rectorate of the Karlsgymnasium on the corner of Karlsstrasse / Allee (1842)
- Construction of a school for boys, Allee (1846)
- Conversion of the Franciscan monastery into a school for girls (1847)
- Drawing and modeling school in secondary school (1847)
- Hunter's House
- Wartberg restaurant
Various innovations in industry and economy fell during Titot's term of office:
- Neckar steamboat trip
- Northern line : Stuttgart – Heilbronn railway line
- Founding of the Schiffahrts-Assekuranz-Gesellschaft , the first Heilbronn public limited company
- The Heilbronn free port was founded on June 1, 1837
- Extension of the Heilbronn customs port (1845)
At the beginning of March 1848, in the course of the March Revolution, there were also unrest in Heilbronn, where the people's displeasure was directed against Titot as a crab knight (unpopular official, regressive). On March 4, 1848, riots broke out in front of his house in Kramstrasse. On March 9, he was asked to resign in the newspaper Neckar-Dampfschiff . When the newly founded Heilbronn vigilante received weapons from Stuttgart on March 10, 1848, this triggered his resignation. His successor as mayor on May 11, 1848 was August Klett .
Head clerk (1848–1870)
After the March Revolution, Titot still took on the job of chief magistrate. He had applied for the post, which was orphaned after the death of the chief clerk Kleinmann, and was elected Kleinmann's successor by the official assembly on June 15, 1848. In addition to this office, he held the office of chairman of the building and fire show, the administrative department of the Society for Neckardampfschiffahrt and the local trade guild in the mid-1850s. Heinrich Titot also played a role as a stone man for the seer of Prevorst and Friederike Hauffe . Friederike Hauffe was treated by Justinus Kerner according to the latest methods of mesmerism , whereby Kerner and Titot both knew each other through their involvement in the Gräßle Society.
On October 1, 1870, Titot resigned from his position as senior administrator. He died on December 1, 1871 of complications from pneumonia.
coat of arms
The Titot coat of arms shows a red crossbar on a silver shield. Three roses, one above and two below the beam, enrich the coat of arms. Three roses are used as a crest.
Appreciation
After Heinrich Titot, Titotstrasse is still named in the Heilbronn city center as the cross street of the avenue .
Works
As a member of the council and mayor, Titot has presented various works relating to the history of the city, including a .:
- Detailed description and history of the main Protestant church in Heilbronn am Neckar . Drechsler, Heilbronn 1833
- Description of the Wartberg near Heilbronn am Neckar . Müller, Heilbronn 1838
- Heilbronner Chronic from 1841 (manuscript)
- Contributions to the history of the imperial city of Heilbronn from the beginning of the French Revolution (1789) to the mediatization of the city (1803) . Schell, Heilbronn 1841
- Centennial overview of the food prices in Heilbronn from 1744 to 1843 . Drechsler, Heilbronn 1844
- Description of the Oberamt Heilbronn . Lindemann, Stuttgart 1865
literature
- Moriz von Rauch : Heinrich Titot . In: Report of the Historisches Verein Heilbronn Volume 16. 1925/28 (1929), p. 95 ff.
- Wilhelm Steinhilber: Heinrich Titot . In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice . 6th year, no. 1 . Heilbronner Voice publishing house, January 30, 1960, ZDB -ID 128017-X .
- Wilhelm Steinhilber: The Heilbronn vigilantes in 1848 and 1849 and their participation in the Baden May Revolution of 1849 . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1959, DNB 454862369 ( Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives . H. 5)
Web links
Georg Christian Franz Kübel (1803–1819) | Lebrecht Landauer (1819–1822) | Johann Clemens Bruckmann (1822–1835) | Heinrich Titot (1835–1848) | August Klett (1848–1868) | Karl Wüst (1869–1884) | Paul Hegelmaier (1884–1904) | Paul Göbel (1904–1921) | Emil Beutinger (1921–1933) | Heinrich Valid (1933–1945) | Emil Beutinger (1945–1946) | Paul Metz (1946–1948) | Paul Meyle (1948–1967) | Hans Hoffmann (1967–1983) | Manfred Weinmann (1983–1999) | Helmut Himmelsbach (1999–2014) | Harry Mergel (since May 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Titot, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of the city of Heilbronn |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heilbronn |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 1871 |
| Place of death | Heilbronn |