Heinrich Wilhelm Emil Schmidt

Heinrich Wilhelm Emil Schmidt (* 1811 in Schmalkalden ; † May 1892 in Kassel) was a Hessian , later Prussian administrative officer and district administrator in Gelnhausen and Fulda .

Origin and family

Schmidt was the son of the later secretary and actuary Ernst Wilhelm Schmidt at the district court in Marburg. In 1840 he married Leontine geb. Riepenhausen in Marburg. He died in Kassel in May 1892.

education and profession

Studies and first years of employment

On July 23, 1830, Schmidt began studying law at the Hessian State University in Marburg and, after graduating on June 20, 1835, was a legal intern at the Marburg Regional Court . In the spring of 1838 he came to help out at the civil magnificent isenburgische Justice Office Langenselbold (from 1830 Hessian Kreis Hanau ). Here he became an actuary in 1839 and on March 6, 1845 an official assessor as representative of the sick bailiff .

Political processes

Since he proved to be loyal to the government in political criminal proceedings, he came to the then higher court in Hanau as an assessor from the beginning of 1850 (dissolved in 1852). He stayed there even when many of his colleagues retired early after the constitutional conflict in the state of Hesse at the end of 1850.

District administrator in Gelnhausen and Fulda

When his predecessor Thomas Boch was put into (unpaid) retirement for eleven years for political reasons (until 1862), Schmidt took over the post of district administrator in Gelnhausen . On January 20, 1854, he was transferred to Fulda , where he did not begin his service until March 10, 1854. There he was not only district administrator but also police director.

Consistory in Kassel

After the annexation of Electorate of Hesse by Prussia on August 20, 1866, Schmidt was assigned the provisional management of the consistory as a government councilor - at that time the state and church were not yet separated, the consistory was a state authority - in Kassel (in Kurhessen there were in Hanau, Kassel and Marburg a Protestant consistory; it consisted of a director and two to four ecclesiastical councilors.). He was instrumental in the difficult disputes regarding the reorganization of the Protestant Church of Kurhessen in the new Prussian administrative district of Kassel ( province of Hessen-Nassau ). In 1873 he was appointed the first president of the combined consistory for the Kassel administrative region. He held this office until his retirement on May 31, 1881. During his retirement he was government commissioner for a foundation.

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Eckhart G. Franz and Georg Rösch The district administrators in 150 years in the Gelnhausen district: Heinrich Wilhelm Emil Schmidt. In: 150 Years of the Gelnhausen District - Heimat-Jahrbuch des Gelnhausen District - Between Vogelsberg and Spessart 1971. Gelnhausen 1970, p. 38.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sections 65-69 of the ordinance of June 29, 1821, concerning the reorganization of the previous state administration , in: Wilhelm Möller and Karl Fuchs (eds.), Collection of the legal provisions still valid in the Electorate of Hesse from 1813 to 1866, Marburg and Leipzig (Elwert) 1867, pp. 311-351
2. ↑ The tasks of the consistory were determined in accordance with § 66 of the ordinance of June 29, 1821 ... ; they were: (No. 1) supervision of evangelical worship (in "dogmatic and liturgical relation"), supervision of religious instruction and church celebrations, (No. 2) supervision of the administration and conduct of the clergy , (No. 3) examining applicants and filling vacancies, (No. 4) issuing exemptions from prohibitions and commands ( Dispense ), (No. 5) managing the administration of church property and (No. 6) the Visits to churches and schools; in: Wilhelm Möller and Karl Fuchs (eds.), Collection of the Electorate Hesse ... 1867, p. 330 f.