Joseph Franz Keiffenheim

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Joseph Franz Keiffenheim (born March 17, 1793 in Niederbreisig ; † between 1850 and 1889 there) was a German mayor in Cochem and, as district deputy, in 1841 district administrator in the Cochem district .

Life

Joseph Franz was the younger son of the married couple Henricus Ludovicus Keiffenheim and Maria Clara geb. Berghausen from Niederbreisig on the Rhine . His older brother was Philippus Keiffenheim, born in 1788. He began his career in 1806 as a clerk and secretary in the Cochemer Mairie under Mayor Peter Franz Oster . When he was appointed district administrator of the Cochem district in 1816, Joseph Franz Keiffenheim was promoted to mayor of Cochem. He then held this office until 1848. Before Hugo Schönberger became district administrator in the Cochem district on November 18, 1841, Keiffenheim was responsible for the administration of the Cochem district as district deputy from March 1 to May 1, 1841 . Due to the unrest in Cochem, the mayor's office was temporarily administered by the head of the office, Naeher. In 1850, Hermann Corell, a new energetic city mayor came, who headed the office in Cochem until 1873.

The son of Joseph Franz Keiffenheim and his wife Ursula Meesen, Hugo Keiffenheim , was born on July 27, 1818 in Cochem. He later became a politician and member of parliament.

Due to a bad harvest in 1846, Mayor Keiffenheim had a public soup kitchen set up to alleviate the greatest misery of the fellow citizens. When the Berlin uprising of March 18, 1848 was also well received in Cochem, some unrest ensued in the city. Hugo Keiffenheim, the mayor's son, founded a shooting club on March 20th. This rifle club, founded to protect property, instead set off for Winneburg to tear down the coat of arms of the unpopular Metternich family . Among other things, this incident contributed significantly to the fact that Mayor Keiffenheim felt compelled to found a citizen security guard on March 22, 1848 in the town hall in Cochem, which was also called the " citizen guard" or " vigilante ". On March 25, 1848, a large demonstration took place on the Herrenwiese in the area of ​​today's Briederweg in Cochem, at which everyone could become a member of the citizens' protection association.

Web links

literature

  • Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Keiffenheim, Joseph Franz . In: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district, Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , pp. 181-182.
  • Ernst Schmitz: The effects in the district town of Cochem. In: Heimatjahrbuch Cochem-Zell 1999. pp. 13-18.
  • Robert Castor: The district administrators of Cochem and Zell in: Heimatjahrbuch Cochem-Zell 2006, pp. 67–71.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State archive North Rhine-Westphalia, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, registry office Cologne city, deaths, 1889, document no. 4400.
  2. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 282 note 14 .
personal data
SURNAME Keiffenheim, Joseph Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keiffenheim, Joseph Franz Xaver Maria (= full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Mayor, District Administrator in the Cochem district
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederbreisig
DATE OF DEATH between 1850 and 1889
Place of death Niederbreisig