Heinrich von Sick

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Heinrich von Sick, around 1880

Christian Christlieb Heinrich Sick , von Sick from 1868 , (born March 9, 1822 in Stuttgart ; † October 13, 1881 ibid) was the city ​​councilor of Stuttgart from 1862 to 1872 with the honorary title of mayor and then Minister of the Interior of the Kingdom of Württemberg until his death .

Gifted citizen son

Heinrich Sick was born into a respected bourgeois family from Stuttgart in 1822. His father was the wealthy silversmith Friedrich Christian Sick , who was a member of the Stuttgart city council and briefly of the Württemberg state parliament. The gifted boy was able to attend the renowned Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and do his Abitur there. Then studied Sick at the University of Tübingen Law and a PhD in this field.

With his very good exam, Heinrich Sick was able to pursue a legal career in the Württemberg civil service. His career as a legal clerk began in Heidenheim in 1847 and took him via Neckarsulm , Göppingen , Ludwigsburg and Ellwangen and, after several rapid promotions, back to his native Stuttgart. There he was appointed city judge in 1857 and a year later promoted to the senior judiciary.

City school hot of Stuttgart

After the death of the previous Stuttgart city scholar Georg Gottlob Gutbrod , Heinrich Sick applied for this post in April 1862. As the applicant with the most votes (4,259 or 27.5 percent), he was able to prevail against five other candidates and was sworn in on June 12, 1862. He was later awarded the honorary title of Lord Mayor . In his ten-year term of office, he devoted himself above all to reforming the social system and expanding the infrastructure of the rapidly growing royal seat. For example, the poor welfare and elementary schools of the city were reorganized during his tenure. In addition, a new, expanded urban development plan was commissioned under his leadership in order to steer the rapid growth of Stuttgart in an orderly manner. The city grew from around 56,000 to around 92,000 residents during the period in office between 1862 and 1872.

In addition to his office as city school, Heinrich Sick was a member of the Württemberg state parliament for Stuttgart from 1868 to 1872 . There he made a name for himself as a good speaker and rose to become Deputy Speaker of Parliament.

Heinrich von Sick's grave in Stuttgart's Prague cemetery in Department 16

Minister of the Interior of Württemberg

Recommended in this way for higher tasks, Heinrich Sick was appointed Minister of State for the Interior in the government of Hermann von Mittnacht on May 16, 1872 . Because Württemberg had belonged to the German Empire since 1871 , Heinrich von Sick had only limited powers as Minister of the Interior. However, among other things, reforms of the Württemberg administrative law and municipal taxes go back to him.

Honors

Private life

Heinrich Sick belonged to the Protestant Church . He had been married since 1849 but had no children.

Dr. Christian Christlieb Heinrich von Sick died on October 13, 1881 at the age of 59 in his hometown of Stuttgart of peritonitis. He was buried in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart next to his wife Ottilie (née Sigel), who had already died on February 21, 1880.

literature

  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 865 .

Web links

Commons : Heinrich von Sick  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1869, p. 53.
  2. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1877, p. 99.


personal data
SURNAME Sick, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sick, Christian Christlieb Heinrich von; Sick, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION City school hot of Stuttgart
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1881
Place of death Stuttgart