Jakob Benjamin Heydweiller

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Jakob Benjamin Heydweiller (born February 7, 1787 in Krefeld ; died July 28, 1836 in Düsseldorf ) was commissioned as the Prussian district administrator for the Krefeld district in 1832 .

Life

The Mennonite Jakob Benjamin Heydweiller came from a respected family of wholesalers and manufacturers in Krefeld. After studying law at the Georg August University in Göttingen , Heydweiller took part in the wars of liberation as a soldier on the French side in 1813 , before he was given the position of mayor in his hometown in 1815 . In 1817 he moved to the Krefeld District Court as a tribunal judge and judicial advisor. During his service as a government referendar from 1838 to the government in Düsseldorf , he was commissioned by his employer there to succeed Franz Rigal in August and September 1832 to manage the Krefeld district until Konrad Melsbach took over the official duties . Heydweiller died on duty.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 298 note 97 .