Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick

Lord Mayor Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick of Berlin.

Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick (born March 30, 1797 in Potsdam , † December 14, 1882 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and Lord Mayor of Berlin.

Life

Krausnick attended high school in Potsdam , from 1816 he studied law at the Berlin University and joined the Landsmannschaft and later Corps Marchia Berlin in 1817 . In 1817 he also became a member of the Old Berlin Burschenschaft . He then worked as an assessor and legal advisor at the Berlin City Court. In 1826 Krausnick received a position at the Higher Regional Court in Breslau , in 1830 he returned to Berlin and then worked at the Berlin Higher Regional Court . In 1831 he was appointed to the Prussian Ministry of Justice .

Krausnick was elected Lord Mayor of Berlin in 1834 as the successor to Friedrich von Bärensprung . On March 31, 1848, he was voted out of office in the elections to the Berlin city council as part of the March Revolution , but in 1850 he was appointed mayor of the city for another twelve years.

With the term of office from 1834 to 1849 (with an interruption of two years), Krausnick was the longest-serving Lord Mayor of the city of Berlin, which was honored on May 26, 1849 by the installation of a plaque in Jüdenstrasse in Berlin-Mitte ("City Elder") ).

During his tenure in 1861 Moabit , Wedding , the Schöneberger Vorstadt and the Tempelhofer Vorstadt were incorporated into Berlin.

From 1854 Krausnick was a member of the manor house .

Krausnick co-founded the Society for the History of Berlin in 1865 with Julius Beer and Ferdinand Meyer .

During the revolutionary period (1848–1850) after Krausnick was voted out of office, Franz Christian Naunyn was the incumbent mayor of Berlin.

Grave site of the Krausnick family in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick died in Berlin in 1882 at the age of 85. He was buried in his family's hereditary funeral in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . He rests on the lattice grave with his wife Henriette Louise nee. Sauer (1797–1851) and their children Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Krausnick (1828–1878) and Johanna Budczies, née. Krausnick (1830–1889) and other family members.

Honors

In Berlin-Mitte , a new street was named after Krausnick by cabinet order on October 7, 1861 (runs from Oranienburger and Monbijoustraße to Große Hamburger Straße).

On the occasion of his honorable resignation from the office of Lord Mayor after a total of 26 years of work for the common good, Krausnick was made an honorary citizen of Berlin on December 30, 1862 .

The final resting place of Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick on Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Churches (grave site 231-EB-71) in Berlin-Kreuzberg has been dedicated to the State of Berlin as an honorary grave since 1952 . Since Krausnick was an honorary citizen of Berlin, the dedication - in contrast to the majority of Berlin's honorary graves - is not limited in time.

• Order of the Red Eagle , 2nd Class with Oak Leaves (1840)
• Royal House Order of Hohenzollern , Commander's Cross (1861)
• Russian Order of Saint Anne , 1st Class (1838, thanks to the Tsar for the honorary citizenship of Berlin)

Own works

• The Berlin town hall: memorandum for the laying of the foundation stone for the new town hall on June 11, 1861 . Berlin 1861 and 2nd edition, Berlin 1862.

literature

• To the Lord Mayor of the City of Berlin, Mr. HW Krausnick: [three writings] on his 25th anniversary service on January 27, 1844 , Berlin 1844 ( urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-105660 )
• Gerhard Kutzsch:  Krausnick, Heinrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 710 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Jürgen Wetzel : "... deaf to the voice of the times": between loyalty to the king and citizens' interests. Berlin's Lord Mayor HW Krausnick from 1834 to 1862 (exhibition catalog), Berlin 1985.
• Wolfgang Ribbe (Ed.): Mayors. Biographies of Berlin mayors in the 19th and 20th centuries (= Wolfgang Ribbe, Uwe Schaper (ed.): Berlinische Lebensbilder. Volume 7), Berlin 1987.
• Kurt Wernicke: 26 years as Lord Mayor . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 12, 1996, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 44-46 ( luise-berlin.de ).
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 590-591.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick . In: Berlin's Mayor , Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The original portrait is in the Märkisches Museum in Berlin.
2. ↑ Kösener corps lists. 1910, 10 , 96.
3. ^ Association for the History of Berlin
4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places. Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 233.
5. ↑ Krausnickstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
6. ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) . (PDF, 413 kB) Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, p. 47; Retrieved on March 25, 2019. For the non-time limit for honorary graves for honorary citizens, see: Implementing Regulations for Section 12, Paragraph 6 of the Cemetery Act (AV Ehrengrabstätten) . (PDF, 24 kB) of August 15, 2007, paragraph 4; accessed on March 25, 2019.
7. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels Lexicon . Second supplement, Leipzig 1843, p. 145
8. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung , 1838, p. 214