Johann Heinrich Wilmerding

Johann Heinrich Wilmerding

Johann Heinrich Wilmerding (born April 8, 1749 in Braunschweig ; † April 14, 1828 there ) was mayor from 1782 to 1808 and city ​​director of the city of Braunschweig from 1814 to 1825 .

life and work

The son of Brunswick mayor Johann Heinrich Wilmerding (1705–1782) attended the Martineum in his hometown and then studied law in Leipzig and Göttingen .

Braunschweig Mayor

He worked as a lawyer in Braunschweig before he became secretary at the higher court of the Braunschweig magistrate. Wilmerding became director of the lower court and in 1782 mayor and syndic of the higher court. At the same time he was president of the princely senior medical council.

Private citizen at the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia

After the establishment of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 , to which Braunschweig was added as the Oker Department , Wilmerding withdrew from his offices and also laid down his mandate in the Braunschweig Landtag . From 1808 to 1813 he only remained a member of the Department Council of the Oker Department and the Imperial Estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia . In this capacity he was a participant in the sessions of the Westphalian Reichstag in 1808 and 1810. As a wealthy private citizen, he researched in the city archives the extent of the city's assets before the ducal occupation of Braunschweig in 1671. He conducted the research with a view to a possible future restoration of city self-government and the demand for old rights and possessions.

Braunschweig City Director

After the dissolution of the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1813 and the restoration of Brunswick state rule, Wilmerding became “City Director” in 1814. He was chairman of the city court, which was completely under ducal influence. Wilmerding operated the municipal self-government, which was anchored in 1823 by the passing of the laws on the separation of justice and administration. On October 1, 1825, the city magistrate was formed as a collegial administrative authority, whose director was Wilmerding Wilhelm Bode at the instigation of Wilmerding . Wilmerding had already retired on September 30, 1825 and also gave up the membership in the Braunschweig Landtag, which had again existed since 1819. He died in Braunschweig in 1828.

Wilmerdingstrasse in Braunschweig is named after him.

literature

• Norman-Mathias Pingel: Wilmerding, Johann Heinrich , in: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , published on behalf of the city of Braunschweig by Luitgard Camerer, Manfred RW Garzmann and Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf with special assistance from Norman-Mathias Pingel, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701- 14-5 , p. 249.
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, p. 659.
• Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweigs streets - their names and their stories, Volume 2: Okergraben and Stadtring , Cremlingen 1996, pp. 294–95.
• Jochen Lengemann: Biographical Manual of the Imperial Estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the Estates Assembly of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-458-16185-6 , p. 208.
• Henning Steinführer , Claudia Böhler (Ed.): The Braunschweiger Mayors. From the establishment of the office in the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. oeding print GmbH, Braunschweig 2013, ISBN 978-3-941737-68-6 .