Johann Friedrich Jacobi (politician)

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Johann Friedrich Jacobi

Johann Friedrich Jacobi (born July 2, 1765 in Düsseldorf - Pempelfort , † December 10, 1831 in Bonn ) was a German cloth manufacturer and politician. During the Napoleonic Empire he was several times interim prefect of the Départements de la Roer and member of the Corps législatif in Paris .

origin

Jacobi came from an old Protestant family of scholars from Düsseldorf. He was the son of the philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and his wife Helene Elisabeth (Betty) von Clermont (1743–1784), a sister of the "cloth baron" von Vaals , Johann Arnold von Clermont . His brother was the Bergische Staatsrat Georg Arnold Jacobi . His grandfather was the businessman Johann Konrad Jacobi , a brother of the superintendent Johann Friedrich Jacobi , after whom he was named. The poet Johann Georg Jacobi was an uncle and the psychiatrist Maximilian Jacobi was a younger brother of Johann Friedrich Jacobi.

Act

Johann Friedrich Jacobi spent a large part of his youth in the house of the poet and friend of the Matthias Claudius family in Wandsbeck , a time that shaped him very much. At an early age he was determined by his father to join the cloth mills of his maternal uncle, Johann Arnold von Clermont in Vaals, and to take on responsibility. In 1786, when he was only 21, he was promoted to sub-director of the company. A year later he married the daughter of his uncle and now father-in-law, Johanna Katharina Luisa von Clermont (1763-1844), who gave birth to their only son Franz in 1789, who died in 1813 at the age of only 24.

After the second occupation of Aachen by the French revolutionary troops in 1794, Jacobi and his father-in-law became a member of the central administration of the areas on the left bank of the Rhine, from which the Département de la Roer emerged in 1798. In addition, with the introduction of the municipal administration for the city of Aachen, which also took place in 1798, he was appointed a member and headed it from August 23, 1798 to August 11, 1800 as elected president. After Jacobi had also served as President of the Aachen Cantonal Assembly and the Département Assembly several times since the beginning of 1800, the newly appointed Prefect of the Départements de la Roer, Nikolaus Sebastian Simon , finally appointed him to the Prefectural Council on June 22, 1800. In this position Jacobi earned the trust of his superior and was allowed to represent him officially in the event of absence or hindrance. The seat of the prefecture was the Londoner Hof in today's Aachener Kleinkölnstrasse number 18.When, due to a fatal illness of Simon and a subsequent long vacancy, the office remained vacant until the appointment of the new prefect Alexandre Méchin , Jacobi were incumbent in August 1801 until September 1802, as interim prefect officially appointed by the Ministry of the Interior, head of the department. Jacobi earned himself great respect in the highest government circles in France, and Napoléon Bonaparte himself proposed him on July 8, 1802 as prefect of the Aisne department . However, referring to his obligations in the Clermont cloth factories after the death of his father-in-law Johann Arnold von Clermont in 1795, Jacobi refused this offer and continued to serve as prefectural councilor in Aachen. In December 1804 he was the acting interim prefect of the Aachen delegation, which attended Napoleon's solemn coronation. In the same year he was appointed President of the General Consistory of the Augsburg Confession of the Evangelical Church established in Cologne and was responsible for the Lutheran congregations in the Départements de la Roer and Rhin-et-Moselle . With the assumption of this office he also cherished the hope of positioning himself for the leadership of the Protestant church system for all of France, which, however, did not materialize.

In 1805 Jacobi was admitted to the Legion of Honor as a Chevalier . Until 1810 he continued to serve as prefectural councilor in Aachen and several times as interim prefect. After Jacobi was appointed to the French corps législatif based in Paris on August 1, 1810 as one of four representatives of the Roer department, he resigned from his position as prefectural councilor in Aachen and Joseph von Fürth from Aachen was appointed as his successor . His presence in the Clermont cloth mills was also no longer required, as two sons of his father-in-law had now taken full responsibility.

With the end of the French era in 1814 Jacobi lost his offices as President of the Consistory General and in the corps législatif and returned to what is now the Prussian Rhineland. From 1815, he initially took over the office of auditor for the entire tax and customs system for the Prussian Rhine Province and a little later became head of the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine , based in Mainz . After his retirement he spent his old age in Bonn; until his death in 1831 he was mainly active in literature.

Works

  • Recueil de pièces particulières, qui ont trait à la chute de Napoléon Buonaparte . Aix-la-Chapelle 1815 digitized

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entries in the finding aid on archive.nrw.de
  2. ↑ Entry in the BBKL
personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cloth manufacturer, prefectural council and member of the Corps législatif
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf - Pempelfort
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1831
Place of death Bonn