Johann David Heegewaldt

Johann David Heegewaldt (born June 15, 1773 in Berlin ; † April 16, 1850 there ) was a Prussian civil servant and Berlin local politician. He was made an honorary citizen of Berlin for his services to poor relief in the city .

Life

Johann David Heegewaldt entered the civil service at the age of 15 when he was employed in the Royal Prussian main stamp chamber on October 4, 1788. That was the authority that was responsible for affixing and checking stamps on goods of all kinds, especially paper, as proof of taxation. His boss was Oberfinanzrat Johann August von Beyer , whose trust he soon won. In 1793, Beyer commissioned the twenty-year-old to organize and supervise the stamp system in the newly created province of South Prussia . The same task was assigned to him in 1803 for those areas of Westphalia that had fallen to Prussia as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . His efforts there came to a premature end when Napoleon's troops occupied the Prussian territories in the west in 1806.

The organizational skills he repeatedly demonstrated and his great expertise in financial matters led to Heegewaldt being subordinated to the Mark Brandenburg in 1809 at the age of 36 . In 1818 he was appointed court councilor . In 1822 he became the second rendant (accounting officer) of the Prussian state debt repayment fund .

One of the consequences of the new town regulations enacted in the course of the Prussian reforms in 1808 was that the concern for the poor and other needy people should now fall to the municipalities, while the Royal Directorate of the Poor had previously been responsible. In Berlin, handing over responsibility to an urban poor management proved to be a lengthy process that was not completed until the beginning of 1820. In the following years Heegewaldt made great contributions to the organization of the poor in the city. He was a member of the poor directorate and from 1821 also head of one of the first poor commissions at the district level, which, among other things, organized medical and educational care for the poorer residents. In 1828 he published a pamphlet on poor welfare, which is said to have been so positively received that the related donations increased sharply.

Honorary grave of Johann David Heegewaldt in Berlin-Kreuzberg

From 1832 Heegewaldt was the first rendant of the state debt repayment fund and was now entitled "Privy Councilor". He did not retire from civil service until 1843 - at the age of 70. Due to his many years of work in the communal poor relief, he was made the 23rd honorary citizen of Berlin on January 6, 1844.

From 1826 Heegewaldt acted as one of the 19 directors of the Prussian Main Bible Society. He was also a member of the Berlin Masonic Lodge "Zum Goldenen Schiff".

Johann David Heegewaldt died in Berlin in 1850 at the age of 76. He was buried in the large hereditary funeral of the Heegewaldt-Klipfel families on Trinity Cemetery I in front of Hallesches Tor . The wall grave complex is in the southeast corner of the cemetery. The area to the left of the former cemetery entrance on Baruther Straße, where the Heegewaldt inscription plaque is located, is designed as a columnar aedicula in front of the grave wall . The final resting place of Johann David Heegewaldt (grave location DV2-UA-1/4) is dedicated to the State of Berlin as an honorary grave . Since Heegewaldt was an honorary citizen of Berlin, the dedication - in contrast to the majority of Berlin's honorary graves - is not limited in time.

literature

• Birgit Fleischmann: Johann David Heegewaldt . In: This: The honorary citizens of Berlin . Haude & Spener, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-7759-0380-1 . P. 52.
• Debora Paffen, Hans-Jürgen Mende : Heegewaldt, Johann David . In: This: The cemeteries in front of the Hallesches Tor. A cemetery guide . Part 1. Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89542-132-4 , pp. 63-64.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas Reich: Friedrich Schleiermacher as pastor at the Berlin Trinity Church 1809–1834 . De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1992, ISBN 978-3-11-013636-4 , p. 266.
2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 225.
3. ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) . (PDF, 413 kB) Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, p. 33; accessed on April 2, 2019. Regarding 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, Section 4; accessed on April 2, 2019.