Johann Conrad Kopstadt

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Johann Conrad Kopstadt
Tomb at the Ostfriedhof Essen , the date of birth is incorrectly engraved as 1757

Johann Conrad Heinrich Kopstadt (born August 26, 1758 in Essen ; † May 9, 1834 ibid) was a German tenured director and mayor of Essen.

Life

Kopstadt was the son of a Graflich-Limburg-Styrumschen tenant director and studied law at the University of Duisburg . After the death of his father in 1786, he himself became the feudal director of the Counts of Limburg-Styrum in Mülheim an der Ruhr .

In 1787 Kopstadt became a member of the Essen City Council and in 1811 a municipal councilor in the Grand Ducal Bergisch administration.

Kopstadt was actually planned by the French government to succeed Anton Carl Ludwig von Tabouillot as Mayor of Essen as early as 1813 , but he refused. The mayors Heinrich Arnold Huyssen and Anton Klein followed in place. Kopstadt was appointed mayor (Maire) on December 1, 1821 after his new application for this office at the age of 63. Previously, Kopstadt had lost a large part of his considerable fortune due to the bankruptcy of a friend's trading house, so that he now needed new income. He took office on December 11th of that year. He held it until his retirement in 1832. During this time, the actual administrative work was carried out by District Secretary Gottfried Alexander Märcker, who remained until the Essen District was dissolved for the first time in 1823.

After his grandfather Johann Heinrich Kopstadt (~ 1681–1753) and his father Heinrich Arnold (1719–1786), Conrad Kopstadt was the third mayor of the Kopstadt family in Essen. His mother was Juliana Katharina Theodora née Clermont (1725-1770). He married Katharina Margaretha Juliana von Clermont in Vaals on November 17, 1788 . Four sisters and two brothers are known from Conrad Kopstadt. Kopstadtplatz in Essen city ​​center was named after this family around 1860.

Conrad Kopstadt was buried in the cemetery at Kettwiger Tor . After its closure in 1955, his tomb was moved to the Ostfriedhof . The weathered inscription reads:

“Here rest in death as in life united Joh. Conr. Hein. Kopstadt, b. 1757, d. 1834 and Katharina Juliana Margaretha von Clermont, b. 1766, d. 1853; the last of their names in Essen join the long line of their ancestors who were respected as teachers and leaders of the free imperial city. Your memory remains dear to those you knew. "

literature

  • Ernst Schröder: Essen personalities. Biographical essays on the administrative and cultural history of Essen . Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch 1986, ISBN 3-87707-060-4 .
  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
  • Wilfried Vogeler: Johann Konrad Heinrich Kopstadt . Archive for clan research; 32nd year, issue 23, 1966.
  • Erwin Dickhoff: essener strassen - city history as reflected in the street names . Richard Bracht, Essen 1979, ISBN 3-87034-030-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. Hans Carl Scheibler / K. Wülfrath, Westdeutsche Ahnentafeln, Weimar 1939, p. 418