Joseph Euler

Joseph Ignaz Euler (born February 20, 1804 in Düsseldorf ; † October 27, 1886 there ) was a Prussian notary and politician of the democratic movement .

Life

Euler was a son of the chancellery and city court procurator Adrian Euler (1768–1837) and his second wife Josepha geb. Wilbertz († 1821), who gave birth to thirteen children. After completing school, studying law at the University of Heidelberg and traveling to Italy and Switzerland financed by his father's grants, Joseph Euler embarked on a career as a notary. He received his first job in Leichlingen , after which he was a notary in Opladen . In 1831 he married Antonie Blin (* 1812), who gave birth to four children: Eduard (* 1833), Otto (1835–1925), Berta Margarete Luise (* 1837) and Sophie (* 1839). In 1837 Euler took over his father's office and notarial title in Düsseldorf. He invested his money in properties in Flingern . For economic reasons, the former manor house was later sold to the city, which built the Eulerhof settlement on the property in the 1920s , named after the Euler manor that once stood there.

In March 1842 the chief procurator , an organ of the administration of justice in Prussia, initiated an investigation into an alleged misconduct by Euler. Euler defended himself against the accusation with a defense. From it a specialist publication emerged under the title About the Notariat in Rheinpreußen with retrospectives on the old Prussian provinces and France (Leipzig 1844). The manual of the notary's office in Prussia (Düsseldorf 1858) followed later . He gained high recognition through both publications. As a co-founder of the notaries' association for Germany and Austria , he was elected chairman on October 7, 1871. He also played a leading role when in 1842/1843 the Düsseldorfer Gesellschaft Verein was created from the amalgamation of the "Reading, Casino and Merchant Society ". In 1845 he was one of the founders of the Düsseldorf general insurance company for sea, river and land transport , in 1848 he was one of the founders of the artists' association Malkasten . He was also a member of the Steamship Company for the Lower and Middle Rhine . In addition, Euler, whose circle of friends and acquaintances included the composer Robert Schumann and the pianist and composer Clara Schumann , was a supporter of Düsseldorf's musical life. The notary and councilor of justice played the violin in the Düsseldorf orchestra as a lover, and as a member of the board he supported the Allgemeine Musikverein zu Düsseldorf since 1845, especially in the preparation of music festivals on the Lower Rhine . A private performance of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in F major by Johannes Brahms took place in Euler's house in the fall of 1853.

Euler has been politically active since the pre-March period . After the draft of a new Prussian penal code was rejected in a session of the 7th Rhenish provincial parliament as a backward concept compared to the current Rhenish law and when the people from Cologne and Düsseldorf held a joyous torchlight procession on June 22, 1843 (“ Cologne-Düsseldorfer Fraternization Festival “), Euler was one of the initiators of a festival in honor of the state parliament, which was held on July 4, 1843 in the Becker garden restaurant in Düsseldorf, to the displeasure of the Prussian authorities . In the year of the March Revolution , Euler ran for the Prussian National Assembly as a member of the Association for Democratic Monarchy , which sought constitutional kingship , and was elected representative on May 8, 1848. Anton Bloem from Düsseldorf - like him a member of the bourgeois-democratic movement of the Rhine Province - was also elected to the parliament that was supposed to give Prussia a new constitution. In new elections in the following year, Euler could no longer prevail. Düsseldorf had been a center of demands for civil liberties during the revolution. Unrest that led to the state of siege being imposed culminated in bloody barricade fighting in 1849. After the state of siege was lifted, new democratic associations were formed in which mainly supporters of the Association for Democratic Monarchy and some reform conservatives came together. One of these associations was the "Democratic Association", whose chairman Joseph Euler became. In 1878 Euler ran for the Prussian House of Representatives .

The Prussian state honored Joseph Euler in 1874 by awarding him the title of "Justizrat" and the fourth class Red Eagle Order . In 1886 he died after a long illness.

Significant descendants

• Euler's first son, Eduard Euler, became a notary in Aachen .
• The daughter Berta married the painter Benjamin Vautier , who sat on the board of directors of the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia .
• The daughter Sophie married the pastor Carl Herbst.
• Euler's second son, Otto Euler , also became a notary. Until 1892 he worked as a lawyer in Düsseldorf. He was also politically and socially involved. From 1879 to 1908 he was a member of the Center Party , most recently as its leader, in the city parliament. The art-loving parental home, the marriage to Marie Henriette Bendemann (the daughter of the painter Eduard Bendemann and granddaughter Gottfried Schadow ) and the friendship with the painters Ernst Deger , Franz Ittenbach , Karl and Andreas Müller led Otto into the milieu of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . As a member of the board of directors and board member of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , he was involved in the cultural development of his city. Otto's son Eduard (1867–1931) became a landscape painter .

Publications

• About the notary's office in Rhenish Prussia with a look back at the old Prussian provinces and France , Leipzig 1844
• Handbook of the notary's office in Prussia , Schaub'sche Buchhandlung, Düsseldorf 1858 ( online )

literature

• Wilhelm Weisweiler: History of the Rhenish Prussian notary's office . Verlag GD Baedeker, Essen 1916/1925, p. 311, 400 (reprint: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz, around 1970)
• Dieter Kühn: Clara Schumann, piano: A book of life , Fischer, Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-596-14203-2

Web links

• Euler, Familie , website on the estate of the Euler family with biographies on the duesseldorf.de portal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Schumannhaus in Düsseldorf , website in the kayoko.de portal , accessed on November 28, 2014
2. ↑ Manfred Hill: Städtischer Musikverein zu Düsseldorf eV - founded in 1818. Curriculum vitae: history - data - episodes ( memento of the original from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website from December 31, 2011 in the musikverein-duesseldorf.de portal , accessed on November 28, 2014 
3. ↑ In particular, Euler's correspondence with the composer and conductor Ferdinand Hiller had existed since 1847 (object number: HHI.AUT.29.30.G.02; archive of the Heinrich Heine Institute , Düsseldorf).
4. ^ Russell Stinson: The Reception of Bach's Organ Works from Mendelssohn to Brahms . Oxford University Press, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-517109-9 , p. 127 ( online )
5. ↑ Kasernenstrasse 837 (later house number 12, today Düsseldorf- Stadtmitte )
6. ^ ^{A b} Hugo Weidenhaupt : Brief history of the city of Düsseldorf . 9th, revised edition, Triltsch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, p. 107f.
7. ↑ See also article Lorenz Cantador and Ludwig von Milewski .
8. ↑ Düsseldorf during the revolutionary years 1848/49 (Source: www.historisches-zentrum-wuppertal.de) ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website from August 19, 2009 in the jaegerkorps1844.de portal , accessed on November 28, 2014